La suscripción altomedieval
ISSN: 1134-1165
Année de publication: 1997
Número: 4
Pages: 207-229
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Signo: revista de historia de la cultura escrita
Résumé
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