FURS

Els Furs de València.

FURS.

Els Furs de València. Year 1261. Size: 27 x 38 cm. 122 leaves (244 pages).

This book contains the Charters of King James I and Alphonse II of Valencia and is signed by the notary Boronat de Pera, who directed the elaboration under the mandate of King Alphonse (which conferred law status to the book). In years after 1240 the aspirations of the "costum" depended on the King’s willingness, who had granted it. For this the city and some towns attempted to obtain the irrevocability of Valencian law on behalf of the King, the definite constitution of the Kingdom as Autonomous State.

This took place in April 1261, in which evidence is shown of the celebration of the first Valencian "Corts", in which king James swore in the "Furs" and the "Costumes" of Valencia, and stated that, just as he had sworn and confirmed the charters and the customs, his successor should also do so before the "Cort General", at the beginning of their reign.

-Our edition: Valencia, 1976. From that kept in Biblioteca Municipal de Valencia.

-Edition of 2.000 copies, numbered by notary.

-Bound in hand dyed goatskin.

-Presentation case includes facsimile and study.

-Specially made aged paper, imitating vellum.

-Study with the adaptation of the text of the charters of James the Conqueror and Alphonse the Benign from the edition of Francesc-Joan Pastor (Valencia, 1547) according to the same charters of the manuscript of Boronat de Pera from the municipal archives of the City of Valencia, carried out by Arcadi García i Sanz (Emeritus Lecturer of the University Jaume I of Castellón) and translated by Alfons Guirau i Sichart (Bachelor of Philology, and lecturer in the University of Valencia). Consists of 238 pages.

OUT OF PRINT.