Codiphis: de colecciones diplomaticas hispano-lusas de epoca medieval. Historia y documentos: instrumentos para investigaci6n 6.5.1-2. Eds. Jose Angel Garcia de CortAzar, Jose Antonio Munita, and Luis Javier Fortun. Santander: Fundaci6n Marcelino Botin, 1999. 2 vols. i: 604 pages; II: 628 pages. Codiphis is a two-volume catalogue of colecciones diplomaticas relating to the Iberian Middle Ages published in Spain and Portugal between 1901 and 1996. The result of the efforts of fifty-six collaborators and three general editors, Codiphis presents detailed entries on 1,030 separate collections (totalling some 190,000 individual documents) in the form of fichas arranged alphabetically by author/editor, one ficha per collection. Chronologically, the manuscripts in the various collections registered here span the full range of the Middle Ages, from the eighth century to the sixteenth, although the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries are most heavily represented. The determining criteria for a collection's inclusion in the catalogue are that it contains more than twenty manuscripts and that those manuscripts fall under the generic designation of carta. The objective of Codiphis is to serve as una herramienta util y necesaria para cuantos investigadores precisen informaci6n, concreta y conjunta, sobre el patrimonio documental editado hasta el momento presente acerca de los reinos hispamicos en Edad Media (91). According to the preface by the Fundacion Marcelino Botin, this catalogue is unprecedented in the history of published documentary resources in Iberia due to the number of manuscripts represented in its pages. Volume I contains the preliminary matter followed by the first 500 fichas of the catalogue proper. The main components of the preliminary matter are: the editors' Introduction; Part i, entitled Colecciones diplomaticas hispano-lusas de epoca medieval; and Part n, Catalogo CODIPHIS. Part, is subdivided into three separate chapters. The first, La edici6n de fuentes en Espana en el siglo xm, situates the publication of colecciones diplomaticas within a historical-and especially religious and political-context, tracing the evolution of this type of documentary source from its appearance in the eighteenth century as an appendix to a larger work to the present-day autonomous anthology. The history of the coleccion diplomdtica is closely allied to institutional histories (monasteries, for example) and the chapter highlights the role of the Real Academia de Historia in the dissemination of this documentary resource as la principal institution publica encargada de investigation historica y edition de fuentes documentales (32). The second chapter, La edition de fuentes en Portugal en el siglo xix (by Luis Carlos Amaral), recounts the Portuguese trajectory, and here, too, the genesis of this kind of collection is located in the eighteenth century with the founding of the Academia Real da Histories Portuguesa by D. Joao V. The key role played by the Viscount of Santarem and by nineteenth-century positivists like Alexandre Herculano are also mentioned. The third chapter, La edition de fuentes en Peninsula Iberica en el siglo xx elaborates on the rationale of the project, and then addresses the publication history of colecciones diplo? …