Abstract
The book of frontier demarcations and peace treatments between the kingdom of Portugal and the kingdom of Castile, kept in the “Lei-tura Nova” collection within the National Archives of Portugal (“Torre do Tombo”), is one of the rare known examples of cartulary destined to preserve documents concerning international relationships between two states. Through the analysis of its external elements (Codicological and paleographical study), the structure of its contents (organization of doc-uments in the codex and the analysis of document typologies), and the biography of its editor, Fernão de Pina; we could draw conclusions about the context of its elaboration. We can assert that it was produced before the rest of the codices of the “Leitura Nova” collection, dating from the sixteenth century, and we can place it in the last decades of the fifteenth century, coinciding with a moment of a great intensity in the Luso-Castilian relations and it may well be the immediate precursor to the preparation of “Leitura Nova” collection, in which it was incorpo-rated later. Despite the importance of this cartulary, it has scarcely been considered in the vast bibliography on the Luso-Castilian relations, therefore we intend to bring it closer to the medievalists across the edi-tion of the summaries of its documents.
Highlights
The book of frontier demarcations and peace treatments between the kingdom of Portugal and the kingdom of Castile, kept in the “Leitura Nova” collection within the National Archives of Portugal (“Torre do Tombo”), is one of the rare known examples of cartulary destined to preserve documents concerning international relationships between two states
We can assert that it was produced before the rest of the codices of the “Leitura Nova” collection, dating from the sixteenth century, and we can place it in the last decades of the fifteenth century, coinciding with a moment of a great intensity in the Luso-Castilian relations and it may well be the immediate precursor to the preparation of “Leitura Nova” collection, in which it was incorporated later
Despite the importance of this cartulary, it has scarcely been considered in the vast bibliography on the Luso-Castilian relations, we intend to bring it closer to the medievalists across the edition of the summaries of its documents
Summary
En el fondo “Leitura Nova” del Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo de Lisboa, se encuentra una excepcional colección de cartularios regios elaborados por orden de D. Con todo este trabajo pretendemos acercar a los historiadores, una pieza imprescindible para el conocimiento de las relaciones lusocastellanas en la Edad Media y más concretamente para el estudio de la que se considera como la primera frontera legalmente delimitada del Occidente Cristiano, un tema que ha sido tratado en diversos artículos[6], pero del que todavía se podrían obtener nuevas conclusiones si fuesen aprovechados los documentos del presente cartulario, cuyo contenido hasta la fecha ha pasado bastante inadvertido en la mencionada línea historiográfica[7]
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