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The series RRC 439 MARCELLINVS

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Brief study of the Roman Republican series RRC 439, signed by the monetary magistrate Marcellinus, shortly before the outbreak of the Second Roman Civil War (48-45 BC). Study of its iconography

Las ojas negras, escrito la letra de plata blanca y horo: reconstruction of Leonor Pimentel’s written culture through her library

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In this work we use, as main sources of study, two documentary types: the inventory and the will, although we will focus in more detail on the first of them. Both are historiographical sources of great value to be able to reconstruct what the education and literacy of some women was like at the end of the Middle Ages; since these documentary sources are one of the few in which the women of that time could record their possessions, and these include the books they owned and would read throughout their lives, a reflection of their education. In this case we focus on the inventories and the different copies of the wills of Leonor Pimentel, I Duchess of Plasencia, that have reached us, to be able to reconstruct the written culture that surrounded the life of the aforementioned duchess.

(Re)writing the history of the library of The Botica Vieja: intra-history and personal writings of the Jesús Fernández Ejado collection of the General Historical Library of the University of Salamanca (18th-19th centuries)

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Between 1996 and 2008, Jesús Fernández Ejado, a retired pharmacist from Frómista (Palencia) decided to make a donation of his personal library called “La Botica Vieja” to the University of Salamanca. This bibliographical collection started in 1741 has been passed from generation to generation through the different members of the family, apothecaries by profession. In the absence of contemporary inventories that allow us to know the intra-history of said fund through its owners, this work aims to be a first starting point for knowledge of its management and creation through the handwritten annotations collected in each of its books. In this way, we will delve into the history of the Rebolledo family during the first century of the fund's life, tracing a journey through the written memory messages that have survived to this day.

Documentary architecture of the Scalas chapel in Seville cathedral: books for its management and administration

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The Scalas Chapel was founded by Bishop Baltasar del Río in the middle of the 16th century. The documentation concerning its management and government remains practically unex-plored, partly because of its scarcity, but above all because it does not provide much information, since the same data is found repeated in different types of diplomatic codices and some single do-cuments. From the point of view of the history of the document, however, its conservation allows us to reconstruct a truly interesting documentary landscape, which shows us how the use of writing was the tool that chaplains and confreres had to defend their rights and how it became part of their daily lives. The expression of these same rights in various formats has allowed us to draw a rich docu-mentary architecture, from which to increase the strictly historical knowledge that we had so far about what was once the chapel of the Bishop of Scalas.

The real d’or or timbre of Valencia (1426-1480). A special coin

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These lines provide a brief overview of the real d’or or timbre of Valencia and its half, the mig timbre. These gold coins were stuck at the city's mint in the 15^th century, and they had a short circulation period. They were named after the characteristic design on their obverse, which featured the royal coat of arms (or timbre). We have gathered 38 coins from various public and private collections, which serve as the basis for studying their minting history and production volume.

Study of the Valladolid cathedral archival fonds: the written memory of a cathedral in the Ancient Regime

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The aim of this article is to present the Valladolid Cathedral Archival Fonds, kept in the diocesan archive of Valladolid. The study is carried out through the interrelated analysis of Historiographic Sciences and Techniques: archival and diplomatic methodology, within the framework of the historical contextualization of documentary production. In this way, it is possible to know the importance and the historical development of the Cathedral in Valladolid, and the documentation that its operation produced. Likewise, it is possible to have a vision of the archival treatment applied to the cathedral documents. Finally, consequently, a systematic review is made of the archive groups of the archival fonds and their diplomatic characteristics, linked to the activities that are attested. The result exposes the archival and documentary potential of the Cathedral of Valladolid for the development of multidisciplinary research

(Re)considerations on the graffiti of the Roman cryptoporticus of Alife (Italy)

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The archaeological research conducted in the cryptoporticus of Alife, in the province of Caserta (Italy), has led to the discovery of several graffiti dating back to the Roman era. The most recent editions provide an opportunity to reconsider these testimonies from a paleographic perspective, allowing us to indirectly reflect on the graphic-cultural context in which they are situated.

The archive of the Intendency of the New Settlements of Sierra Morena and Andalusia after the suppression of its statutory regime (1835-1919)

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The agrarian colonization of Sierra Morena and Andalusia’s New Settlements was a cornerstone of Charles III’s reign and the Spanish Enlightenment. However, a substantial portion of the central archives for this new jurisdiction has vanished, leaving researchers to piece together the past using state archives. This loss has obscured the nature of the original archives, the events that shaped them, and the circumstances of their destruction. This study examines the fate of the Intendency of New Settlements’ archive, confiscated in 1835 following the suppression of its statutory regime and relocated to Jaén in 1839. There, it remained for decades until a devastating fire consumed the Treasury Delegation of Jaén in January 1919, almost entirely obliterating the archive.

Diplomatic codices: from their Medieval origin to the Early Modern Period

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This paper deals with the evolution of studies on diplomatic codices in Western Europe. Starting from its early medieval origin, it analyses the evolution of its terminological definition, the purpose for which it was produced and, especially, the changes that took place from the 16th century onwards. As a result, the dynamism of a codicological typology that responds to the needs of the producing entity and the historical moment of its creation is observed, highlighting the gaps that still exist in the historiography for the modern period.

Brief report on the establishment of the escudo as a monetary unit in Puerto Rico (1865)

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This research aims to document and partially reconstruct a fragment of Puerto Rico's monetary history under the Spanish Empire. The primary sources available in the National Historical Archive of Madrid and the Library of Congress of the United States have been used to understand this process more deeply. This author has resorted to positivist historiography to reconstruct the monetary legislation applied to Puerto Rico in 1865, and the Spanish authorities converted the es-cudo into the new monetary unit of Puerto Rico. Numismatic historiography in Puerto Rico needs to pay more attention to this line in the history of Spanish monetary legislation in Puerto Rico. Very little has been documented regarding this monetary legislation applied to Puerto Rico. However, the au-thor believes that further research needs to be done to reconstruct the numismatic history of Puerto Rico.

“Otro pergamino viejo en que están cinco donaciones”: an approach to the pancartas from the Cistercian monasteries of the diocese of Lugo (11th-13th centuries)

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Among the documentation preserved from the Cistercian monasteries of the Diocese of Lugo – specifically Santa María de Meira, Santa María de Penamaior, and Santa María de Ferreira de Pantón – for the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries), around twenty pancartas – that is, parch-ments containing two or more documents – have survived. Through this significant corpus of docu-ments, the present article explores the origins and purposes of this diplomatic practice, drawing the following conclusions: first, pancartas were produced to confirm earlier legal actions that could be challenged by the donor or their heirs; second, to ensure the written record of the documents – whether in the form of complete letters, summaries with essential information, or brief notices – due to the increase in legal transactions involving small nobles and farmers from the area; and finally, to facilitate their consultation and preservation in the monastic archive. To substantiate these conclu-sions, the article undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the different pieces, attending to both their external and internal characteristics (supports and morphologies, scripts, legal authors and scribes, formulas, tradition, etc.).

Appointment of architects in the Madrid of Fernando VI: documentary analysis

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The branches of works and fountains were directed by a master builder or senior architect, seconded by a lieutenant. This article deals with the access to the profession of both figures from a documentary point of view, through the records kept in the Villa de Madrid Archive, as far as the reign of Ferdinand VI is concerned. To this end, we have identified the processes that, in one way or another, led to their appointment and the resulting documentation, the typologies of which have been analysed using diplomatic criteria, taking into account their internal structure and documentary tradition.

Juan Sebastián de Elcano and Porné’s utopia: a pagan, thanatist and pacifist chimera in the story of the first circumnavigation of the world

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The first circumnavigation of the world (1519-1522) generated various contemporary accounts, among which the letter from Maximilian Transylvanus, secretary to Charles V, addressed to the Cardinal-Archbishop of Salzburg, Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, stands out. This document, based on interviews with survivors and official documentation presented at the court of Valladolid, contains a peculiar description of the island of "Porné" (Borneo) as a utopian society, characterized by its pagan, peaceful, and thanatist nature. The research focuses on determining the intellectual authorship of this utopian construction, contrasting the figures of Transylvanus and Juan Sebastián de Elcano.

Mathilde Albisson: El proceso al libro: la censura inquisitorial en la España del siglo XVII. Madrid, Cátedra, 2024. 415 pp.

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Miguel Calleja Puerta: El monasterio de San Salvador de Cornellana en la Edad Media (1024-1536). Fundación regia, abadía cluniacense, encomienda nobiliaria. Gijón, Ediciones Trea y Fundación Valdés Salas, 2024. 254 pp.

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Antonio Carpallo Bautista y Manuel Joaquín Salamanca López (coords.): El manuscrito medieval: del pergaminoal metadato. Madrid, Dykinson, 2024. 312 pp.

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Santiago Domínguez Sánchez: Súplicas dirigidas a Inocencio VI (1353-1361) referentes a Hispania. León, Universidad de León, 2024. 1407 pp.

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José María de Francisco Olmos, Antonio Carpallo Bautista y Marta Gutiérrez Quejido: Estudio de las encuadernaciones artísticas del siglo XVII en la biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia. Madrid, Fragua, 2022. 262 pp.

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Juan Carlos Galende Díaz, Antonio José López Gutiérrez y Nicolás Ávila Seoane: Sellos áureos de Alfonso X. Murcia, Sociedad Española deEstudios Medievales y Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2024. 150 pp.

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Francisco Miguel Gimeno Blay y Josep Antonio Iglesias Fonseca (eds.): Ut amicitiam omnibus rebus humanis anteponatis. Miscelánea de estudios en homenaje a Gemma Avenoza Vera. Valencia, Universidad de Valencia, 2023. 414 pp.

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Vincenza Lucherini (dir.): De la Sigillographie féminine médiévale: dans l’Europe méditerranéenne. Roma, Viella, 2024. 208 pp.

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Alicia Carmen Marchant Rivera: María Josefa Bahamonde. Una calígrafa española del siglo XVIII y su Arte para aprender a escribir brevemente la letra bastarda española. Madrid, Dykinson, 2024. 127 pp.

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Natalia Rodríguez Suárez: Epigrafía medieval. Nociones básicas para su estudio. Madrid, Confederación Española de Centros de Estudios Locales, 2024. 201 pp.

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Ángeles Romero Cambrón (ed.): La ley de los godos: estudios selectos. Belín, Peter Lang, 2024. 230 pp.

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Elisa Ruiz García: La tiranía del calendario. La medición del tiempo en la cultura occidental. Zaragoza, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2023. 146 pp.

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Jordi Saura Nadal: El notariado en la Cataluña rural: la notaría de Rupià en el siglo XIV. León, Universidad de León, 2024. 126 pp.

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VV. AA.: Écrire à l’ombre des cathédrales: espace anglo-normand et France de l’Ouest, XIe-XIIIe siècle. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024. 414 pp.

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Listado de evaluadores para la revista complutense Documenta & Instrumenta durante los años 2024 y 2025

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