El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial, T.I.6., f. 1v, The Scriptorium of Alfonso X, Libro de los Juegos (“Book of games”), commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile. (COPYRIGHT©PATRIMONIO NACIONAL)
This online image database of digitized legal manuscripts is edited by Maria Alessandra Bilotta (IEM-NOVA/FCSH) within the research project “ManJurEurIt. Manuscritos Jurídicos Europeus Itinerantes” (financed by Portuguese national funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., within the scope of the execution of the program contract provided for in numbers 4, 5 and 6 of art. 23 of D.L. No. 57/2016, of 29 August, amended by Law No. 57/2017, of 19 July). The project aims to make easily accessible to scholars in a single list the census of the digitization of legal manuscripts collections, dating back to the Middle Ages and the Humanistic period, preserved in Portuguese libraries.
Therefore, the legal manuscripts gathered in this database are preserved in Portuguese territory and have been digitized over the past few years by the institutions in which they are stored.
Many of the Alcobacenses and Iluminados legal manuscripts, preserved in the National Library of Portugal, were digitized on the occasion of the exhibition “The Circulation of Law in Medieval Europe. European Legal Manuscripts in Portuguese Libraries” (Lisbon, National Library of Portugal, Museum of the Book, 26 February – 31 May 2016), curated by Maria Alessandra Bilotta.
The list enumerates the manuscripts following their current place of conservation, therefore they are enumerated according to the institution and the collection to which they belong. The manuscripts reviewed in the database were not all produced in Portugal, some come from other European territories. The list is not complete but concerns only those manuscripts that have been digitized by the institutions to which they belong. The database will be progressively updated.
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Coimbra, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade
Cofre 27
Foral de Castel Mendo
Ms. 721
Johannes de Imola, Commentaria super Decretales
Ms. 722
Domenico da San Gemignano, Lectura super sexto libro Decretalium
Ms. 723
Domenico da San Gemignano, Lectura super sexto libro Decretalium
Ms. 724
Francesco Zabarella (de Zabarellis), Lectura super Clementinis
Ms. 725
Johannes de Imola, Lectura super Clementinis
Ms. 3155
Corpus Iuris Civilis
Lisbon, Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
Colegiada de Santa Iria de Santarém, Liv. 1 (bookbinding)
Alfonso X of Castile, known as the Wise, Primera Partida (fragment)
Feitos da Coroa, Núcleo Antigo 393
Foral de Coimbra
Feitos da Coroa, Núcleo Antigo 398
Foros ou costumes da Guarda
Fragmentos, Cx. 20, n.º 4
Gloss of Decretals of Gregory IX
Fragmentos, Cx. 21, n.° 3
Alfonso X of Castile, known as the Wise, Quinta Partida (fragment: Title XI, law 16-18, 20-22, 30-36; Title XII, law 5-10, 15-20; FRAGMENTS OF A PORTUGUESE TRANSLATION OF THE FIFTH PARTIDA OF ALFONSO X of Castile)
Leis e ordenações, Núcleo Antigo 1
Livro de Leis e Posturas
Leis e ordenações, Núcleo Antigo 3
Alfonso X of Castile, known as the Wise, Tercera Partida
Leis e ordenações, Núcleo Antigo 4
Afonso V King of Portugal, Ordenações afonsinas, Book I (ff. 1r-65v) and Book III (ff. 66r-222v)
Leis e ordenações, Núcleo Antigo 5
Afonso V King of Portugal, Ordenações afonsinas, Book II
Leis e ordenações, Núcleo Antigo 6
Afonso V King of Portugal, Ordenações afonsinas, Book III
Ordem de Cister, Mosteiro de Lorvão, Antiga Colecção Especial, mç. 10, n.º 38
Tancred of Bologna, Ordo iudiciarius (fragment)
Ordem de São Jerónimo, Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Belém, liv. 81 (Casa Forte 146)
Decretals of Gregory IX
Lisbon, National Archaeology Museum – Museu Nacional de Arqueologia
Cx.4/P.4/fr. 1
Texto jurídico com glossa marginal
Lisbon, National Library of Portugal – Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Alcobacenses
Alc. 36
Raymond of Penyafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae ; Summa de matrimonio
Alc. 41
Decretals of Gregory IX
Alc. 42
Giovanni d’Andrea, Casus abreviati super Decretales domini Gregorii Pape IX
Alc.43
Geoffrey of Trani, Summa super titulis decretalium
Alc. 144
Decreta et consultationes Alexandri papae tertii
Alc. 161
Alanus de Insulis, Liber poenitentialis
Alc. 173
Fourth Council of the Lateran (1215); Breviarium Extravagantium by Bernardus Papiensis with Apparatus by Tancred of Bologna
Alc. 197
Raymond of Penyafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae; Summa de matrimonio
Alc. 201
Decretals of Gregory IX
Alc. 202
Tancred of Bologna, Ordo iudiciarius; Bartholomew of Brescia, Ordo judiciarius. Casibus in ordinario
Alc. 215
Boniface VIII, Liber Sextus Decretalium
Alc. 216
Boniface VIII, Liber Sextus Decretalium; John XXII, Extravagantes; Clement V, Clementinae
Alc. 217
Boniface VIII, Liber Sextus Decretalium
Alc. 222
Ordenações de D. Afonso V (Book II) (ff. 8r-177 v) – Colecção de Decretos Reais de D. Afonso II, D. Duarte e D. Afonso V (ff. 178r-187 v) – Colecção de Decretos Reais de D. Pedro I, D. João I, D. Dinis, D. Duarte e D. Manuel I (ff. 188r-205v)
Alc. 234//1
Burchard of Worms, Decretorum Libri XX, V, 1-8 (f.131v. 2nd column – f.132v. 1st column); Peter Lombard, Commentarium in Epistolas Pauli ( (f.1r 1st column – f.131v. 2nd column)
Alc. 267
Bartholomew of Brescia, Casus decretorum
Alc. 271
Raymond of Penyafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae; Summa de matrimonio
Alc. 273
Giovanni d’Andrea (Johannes Andreæ), Apparatus super sextum librum decretalium
Alc. 274
Boniface VIII, Liber Sextus Decretalium
Alc. 275
Magnum formularium juris canonici
Alc. 276
Martinus Polonus, Margarita Decreti Seu Tabula Martiniana
Alc. 365
Burchard of Worms, Decretum
Alc. 371-2
Tancred of Bologna, Ordo iudiciarius (Part II); Johannes de Deo, Liber judicum (ff. 14r-21v)
Alc. 381
Preliminary pages containing a fragment of the First Partida of Alfonso X the Wise, King of León and Castile, in 15th century letter; Quinque compilationes antiquæ: Bernard of Pavia (Bernardus Papiensis), Compilatio prima antiqua (Breviarium extravagantium); Johannes Galensis, Decretales mediæ (Decretales intermediæ); Johannes Teutonicus, Compilatio IV; Peter of Benevento (Petrus Beneventanus), Compilatio tertia; Tancred of Bologna, Compilatio quinta.
Alc. 446
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (f. 3r-205 v.)
Alc. 463
Alfonso X of Castile, known as the Wise, Primeira Partida
Códices
Cod. 1681
Fuero General de Navarra (fragment)
Iluminados
Ill. 27
Raymond of Penyafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae; Summa de matrimonio
Ill. 49
Decretals of Gregory IX; Innocent IV, Novae constitutiones
Ill. 62
Foral da vila de Alhos Vedros de 15 de Dezembro de 1514
Ill. 66
Petrus de Escalone [1376-1425], Statuta Sancta Curiae Lugdunensis
Ill. 73
Foral da Vila de Atouguia de 1 de Junho de 1510
Ill. 74
Foral das Vilas de Aveiras de Cima e de Vale Paraíso, de 13 de Setembro de 1513
Ill. 98
Cartulário da Sé de Coimbra dos séculos XII e XIII
Ill. 111
Fuero juzgo
Ill. 141
Foral da Vila de Paredes de Coura, de 13 de Abril de 1515
Ill. 142
Foral da Vila de Tarouca, de 27 de Fevereiro de 1514
Ill. 146
Foral da vila de Santa Marinha de 15 de Maio de 1514
Ill. 147
Foral de São João do Monte de 1514
Ill. 175
Foral dos lugares de Santa Cruz de Coimbra no termo de Montemor-o-Velho, de 23 de Agosto de 1514
Ill. 178
Foral de Vila do Conde de 1516
Ill. 179
Foral da vila de Ansião de 1514
Ill. 181
Foral da vila de Quiaios de 1514
Ill. 182
Foral da vila de Condeixa-a-Velha – Lisboa, 3 de Junho de 1514
Ill. 185
Codex legum visigothorum
Ill. 221
Foral da Vila de Sangalhos de 20 de Agosto de 1514
Manuscritos
MSS. 258, n. 69
Decretum Gratiani (fragment)
MSS. 262, n. 15
Alfonso X of Castile, known as the Wise, Segunda Partida (fragment)