Los inicios del notariado público en el reino de Castilla. Aportación a su estudio

Abstract

This work investigates the role of the notary institution and the documents issued in Castilla la Vieja during the 13th century. The material examined comes principally from the collections of edited diplomatic documents coming from ecclesiastical archives in Burgos, Valladolid, Segovia and Avila. In this study, we try to show how and when the public notary was instituted in the region, analysing the form of documents and the process by which they were issued and concluding with a typological outline of the documents and material employed.