La suscripción altomedieval
ISSN: 1134-1165
Year of publication: 1997
Issue: 4
Pages: 207-229
Type: Article
More publications in: Signo: revista de historia de la cultura escrita
Abstract
This paper analyses the subscription in the early Middle Ages. Several persons participate in the validation of a document: grantors, witnesses and scribes. The subscription composition is analysed, specially the sign that closed it. It's a transformation of the Latin word "subscripsi" abbreviation in a complex and elaborated drawing. Generally there are not autographs among the subscribers, being the subscriptions of the grantors and witnesses been made by the same scribes or notaries that wrote the document