Abstract

Leibniz's famous Codex juris gentium diplomatics, a collection of documents, most of them unknown at the time, met with considerable approval from his scholarly peers. At the same time, critical statements also arose. It is hard to tell, whether these are based on serious arguments or merely are owed to the desire of being seen arguing with a well-known luminary.In this paper, the range of reactions to the Codex as well as to its Praefatio is examined