Paleografía aragonesa de la Alta Edad Media anterior al año 1137

Abstract

The palaeographic legate of Aragon during the later Middle Ages till its union with the earldom of Barcelona in 1137 is most valuable for the palaeographers. He finds in it a field to observe the especial persistence of the visigothic tradition until the appearance of the caroline script. Hence, the interest of the well-preserved examples of codex and documents. The primitive reign of Aragon, a series of parcels of land lacking solidarity, united by a king who joins them progressively, is an interesting field to study the slow evolution of the visigothic scripts since the VIIIth to the XIIth century, when the defects of the caroline script appeared. In this essay, we go through interesting specimens of scripts that show the slow graphical evolution of codex, documents and of their illuminations that mix local mozarabic are with the progressive implantation of European Carolingian motives.