El notariat a Reus al segle XIII: Una aportació a la seva historia

Abstract

This article analizes the functioning of the notarized in Reus along the XIII century. It is done from the subscription study of the notaries in different instruments accepted by them, some of them from the middle of Xllth century. This review allows to observe also the evolution in the implantation of the public notarized, that suffers a transformation started in Italy among these years. Everybody can see in this work how the notary is connected with the ecclesiastic statement because of jurisdictional reasons, and as the notary charge is occuped mainly by clergymen from the parrish, under the rector authority. Finally, the autor analyzes in a sumarial way the mainly external characteristics of the documentation produced in the notary from Reus, represented in the notarial handbooks that have been conserved from the en of the XIII century.