Paleografía gallega. Estado de la cuestión

Abstract

From an enumeration of the principal documental contents of codex related to Galicia, to be found in the regional, ecclesiastical and local National Archives, the author tries to establish a summary of Palaeography in Galicia. The author focuses the attention on the documental contents because they are the most numerous and varied. Following a traditional line of evolution of the Spanish medieval script, he studies the different steps of its development, from the indications that are found in the roman and visigothic periods to the beginning of the XVIth century. The author specially studies the visigothic script as it is the most interesting one for its particularities, and then the other palaeographic periods mentioned in the most time-honoured treaties. In each period, he tries to study the cultural atmosphere, the well-preserved codex and the morphology of the represented scripts to obtain the harmonic evolution of the script of the historical period treated in this study.