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also published Ferdinand II the Catholic’s parchments regarding Sardinia47
and the wealth of documents pertaining to the city of Bosa in the medieval and
modern period.48 This publication emerged as a systematic edition of sources
on the history of Bosa, in which the archival work was fused with the scanty
documentation preserved in the original in the city’s Municipal Archive and
integrated with documents in copy unstamped or notarized, found in the State
Archive of Cagliari and the Archive of the Crown of Aragon in Barcelona.
The project to publish the Libres de privilegis of the city of Alghero49—four
cartularies from the medieval and modern era that preserve the privileges con-
ceded by the Aragonese and Spanish sovereigns to the villa of Alghero in a
copy “for administrative use” and are thus presented as an authentic histori-
cal record of the Sardo-Catalan municipality50—was undertaken at the initia-
tive of Francesco Manconi with the same view and the same commitment and
scientific rigor. One owes the publication of the Ordination of the Councilors
of the city of Cagliari (fourteenth-seventeenth centuries),51 published only in
part at the beginning of the last century by Michele Pinna,52 to the initiative of
the same Manconi.
47 Cecilia Tasca, “Le pergamene di Ferdinando II il Cattolico relative alla Sardegna
nell’Archivio della Corona d’Aragona di Barcellona,” in Studi di geografia e storia in onore
di Angela Terrosu Asole (Cagliari, 1996), pp. 561–634.
48 See supra, n. 41.
49 The project to publish four voluminous cartularies preserved in the Historical Archive of
the Municipality of Alghero: Libre vell, Libre gran, Libre de privilegis, Liber magnus, is at
an advanced state and has already been published in part in the series I Libri dei Privilegi
della Città di Alghero: Libre vell, ed. Francesco Manconi (Cagliari, 1997); Libre gran, eds
Baingio Tavera and Gianfranco Piras (Cagliari, 1999), while the Libre de privilegis of the
city of Alghero was published in volume 9 of the series Raccolta di documenti editi ed
inediti per la Storia della Sardegna. Libre de cerimònies of the city of Alghero, eds Baingio
Tavera and Gianfranco Piras (Sassari, 2007).
50 Over the course of the Middle Ages, the practice of compiling cartularies spread across
the Iberian world as it also did in the Italian peninsula and became the norm under the
Catholic Monarchs. In 1480, the Cortes assembled in Toledo established that every city
had to have registers in which the laws and privileges issued by the sovereigns of the
Crown of Aragon for the benefit of the urban community were transcribed, cf. John H.
Elliott, Imperial Spain: 1469–1716 (London, 1981); Italian edition, La Spagna imperiale:
1469–1716 (Bologna, 1982), p. 103.
51 Libro delle ordinanze dei Consellers della Città di Cagliari (1346–1603), ed. Francesco
Manconi (Sassari, 2005).
52 Michele Pinna, “Le Ordinazioni dei Consiglieri del Castello di Cagliari del secolo XIV,”
Archivio Storico Sardo XVII (1929), pp. 1–271.