Il Breve Portus Kallaretani e gli ordinamenti pisani trecenteschi per il porto di Cagliari

murgia, giulia

2020-01-01

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Abstract

The "Breve Portus Kallaretani", issued by the Comune of Pisa to regulate the activities of the port of Cagliari, is one of the oldest and most important port statutes in the Mediterranean. The only medieval witness that passes it down - the Roncioni manuscript 322, preserved in the State Archives of Pisa - offers an editorial of the text written in Pisan vernacular and dated to 1318, which probably represents the result of the progressive stratification of successive regulatory provisions over time. The Breve is made up of 68 chapters, in which the tasks of the consuls, merchants, brokers and operators who gravitated around the Cagliari port at the beginning of the fourteenth century are defined. The same manuscript then includes other provisions issued between 1319 and 1321, as well as some chapters from the city statute, the Breve dei Castellani di Cagliari. It is therefore a corpus of normative texts which constitutes a precious source both for the reconstruction of the history of medieval Sardinia - and in particular that of the port of the city of Cagliari - and for the knowledge of the uses of the Pisan vernacular on the island. The new critical edition proposed here is accompanied by an in-depth linguistic study and a rich glossary, useful for understanding the peculiarities of the vocabulary of trade and seamanship in use in the lively environment of a medieval port.