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Green Book of Vilafranca

Date
1322 - 1699
Archive
County Archive of Alt Penedès
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT-ACAP-2-65875
Link to the online document
Description

Manuscript volume on paper, 450 folios of 36x27cm with black leather covers and silk guards printed in gold and green.
Probably compiled by the notary Pere Guasch (active between 1580 and 1628) on the occasion of the Courts of 1599 and continued from that date. There are also parts attributable to Pau Roig, merchant, chronicler and juror (ca. 1560-1634), Gaspar Bartomeu, scribe and notary of the Council (ca. 1570-1651) and Dídac Miret, notary and secretary of the Council (1657?-1735).
It contains a very complex and heterogeneous compendium because it groups together in one volume what in other municipalities forms several different volumes.
Privileges, ordinances, chronicles, historical essays and other municipal documents are mixed in without apparent order.
However, four parts can be distinguished:
– Privileges (1322-1608), folios 1-141.
– Book of the Good Regiment of the Town, folios 141-169.
– Chronicle (1600-1699)
-Historical News, inserted into the Chronicle in 1604 and 1631.
The index that was subsequently incorporated into the beginning was compiled in 1834 by Jordi Miret.