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The Antecessores Collection

"History of Legal Science" Research Group

• The Antecessores Collection
• Biographical sketch of Santiago Masó
• Organisation of the Collection
• Selections from the press
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The Antecessores Collection

In 1995 the Library of the University of Girona received a donation of books from the private collection of the Gironian lawyer, editor and politician Santiago Masó i Valentí (1878-1960). The donation was made by his nephew Narcís Jordi Aragó. The Masó Collection is an example of an early 20th century lawyer's library and makes up a considerable part of the ancient collection of our Juridical Library.

Professors Rosa Maria Carreño, José L. Linares and José Maria Pérez Collados, members of the History of Legal Science Research Group, include among their research interests the study of the problems of tradition, reformism and rupture during the nineteenth-century codification. The Masó Collection provides very useful materials for the study of this phenomenon from a Catalan point of view, not only dealing with the proximity of the lawyers of the early 20th century to the great legal corpuses of the nineteenth-century codification, but more specifically and within the period in which our research group is interested, about the vicissitudes of the codification of civil law in Spain, resolved by the "Compilation of Special Civil Law of Catalonia of 21 July 1960". We believe that the study of the subsequent evolution of Private Law of this country, especially the reforms and the sectorial codification promoted by the Government of Catalonia in recent decades, corresponds to the positive law jurist.

Alongside the Masó Collection are other donations, together with other ancient books, editions from juridical sources, studies of the history of legal sources and auxiliary instruments, the latter having been acquired with different funds of the University of Girona. They make up the special collection known as "Antecessores. The ancient juridical collection of the University of Girona", which can be consulted in the Reserve Room of the Montilivi Library. In the future we hope to put together a library of classics of the juridical sciences.

Antecessores is the name given to the masters of law in the Byzantine juridical schools who made the great Justinian (527-565 a.d.) compilation possible, and it is the name adopted by learned jurists of the modern age. We believe it expresses our attempt very well.

This web page attempts, therefore, to recognise the donors and disseminate our ancient juridical collection, as well as to create, little by little, a web of historical-juridical information. This website has been developed thanks to the close collaboration between the personnel of the University of Girona library and professors Rosa Maria Carreño, José Luis Linares and Jose María Pérez Collados. The means at our disposal include research assistance from the University of Girona to encourage and maintain our research activity (Ref. 9102097). And to ensure continuity, we are part of an ongoing research project of the Ministry of Sciences and Technology (Ref. BJU2003-09552-C03-02).

 
Organisation of the collection

Click with the mouse on the underlined sections of the classification to gain access to the bibliographic collection.

I. Writers (Auctores)

I.I. Ancient writers

I.II. Medieval writers (glossators and commentators)

I.III. Modern writers

I.III(bis) Contemporary writers

I.IV. Juridical science of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century

I.IV.I. Foreign works

I.IV.II. Civil law. Spain

I.IV.II.I. General works

I.IV.II.II. Monographs

I.IV.III. Civil law. Catalonia. "Catalan civil law and codification"

I.IV.III.I. General works previous to the Civil Code of 1889

I.IV.III.II General works subsequent to the Civil Code of 1889

I.IV.III.III. Monographs and opuscules

I.IV.III bis Foral Law

I.IV.III bis I Aragó

I.IV.III bis II Galícia

I.IV.III bis III Mallorca

I.IV.III bis IV Navarra

I.IV.III bis V País Basc

IV.III bis VI València

I.IV.IV. Repertoires of civil jurisprudence

I.IV.V. Commercial law

I.IV.VI. Labour law

I.IV.VII. Private international law

I.IV.VIII. Canon law and ecclesiastic law

I.IV.IX. Criminal law and repertoires of criminal jurisprudence

I.IV.X. Procedural law

I.IV.XI. Public finance

I.IV.XII. ‘Derecho político’ and the philosophy of law and state

I.IV.XIII. Administrative law and repertoires of litigious-administrative jurisprudence

I.V. Auxiliary instruments

I.V.I. Legal dictionaries

I.V.II. Treatises and manuals of Roman law and the history of law (19th century)

I.V.III. Treaties and manuals of Roman Law and the history of law (20th century)

I.V.IV. History of legal sources, indexes, palingenesia

II. Sources (Fontes)

II.I. Ancient sources

II.I.I. Pre-Justinian sources

II.I.II. Corpus iuris civilis

II.II. Medieval sources

II.II.I High Middle Ages

II.II.II. Low Middle Ages

II.III. Modern sources (16th, 17th and 18th centuries)

II.IV. 19th century and 20th century (until 1960)

II.V   Samples of the recent sectorial codification of the Civil Law of Catalonia with strong influences from Roman law

Selections from the press

• Marques de biblioteca. Revista de Girona, number 220 (September-October 2003)

Links

• Roman Law
• History of Law

Actualitzat el 25/4/2005

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