Projects

This project's long-term objective is to provide a critical digital edition of the Siete Partidas or "Seven-Part Code," the pinnacle of the legislative work of Alfonso X, byname the Wise (1221-1284), a series of legal texts produced throughout over thirty years, while his reign lasted (1252-1284). Among them, in addition to the Partidas, the Espéculo, […]

The research project "The Spanish binding in the Royal Academies: bookbinders, workshops and ligatory typologies (18th-20th century)" (HAR2017-83387), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, has as its objective the search, analysis and identification of the bookbinders who worked for the eight most important Royal Academies of Madrid. Some examples are the […]

The main objective of this project is to lay the foundations for studying the dissemination, evolution, transformation and reception of medieval literature in the Golden Age. The focus is on the success of some genres to the detriment of others (poetry, didactics, historical and fictional prose, compared to the chanson de geste or the works […]

To understand how female authority is configured, this project will focus on texts found in women's environments ('authorized' by them through patronage or writing) as forms of assimilation and dissimilation of the discursive ways of the power group, as well as their female self-representation habits. This will allow an approach to the reasons for success […]

The project, developed between 2016 and 2017, focused on the description and cataloguing of the bindings of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, with a methodology adapted for its usage in the Collective Catalogue of Artistic Bindings.

BITECA, a continuation of other previously funded projects, dedicates its efforts to the study of MSS and old prints that transmit Catalan medieval works in their Iberian context. This research, focused on the identification, description and study of these testimonies, the critical editing of unpublished texts and the study of their circulation and transmission (whether […]

The fifteenth-century Biblia de Arragel stands out among Spanish translations of the Bible as a monumental work of Hispano-Jewish scholarship, a luxurious cultural artifact of art-historical value, and one of the most important vernacular Bibles of the European Middle Ages. The Arragel codex contains a complete translation of the Hebrew Bible into Old Spanish, over […]

This project is focused on studying and describing the more than three hundred and thirty bookbindings from the 19th and 20th centuries in the Complutense Library collection, and around six hundred artistic bookbindings from the Madrid City Council's Historical Library, from copies of the 15th century to the works of important 20th-century bookbinders. The novelty […]