An unpublished documentary collection offers a broad portrait of Ramon Llull’s family branch of Barcelona
3 October 2018 | Press release
Today the book-catalog that compiles these documentary collections was presented in the academic day “Maestro Ramón, the Llulls and the Mediterranean of their time” inVilassar de Dalt.
After 2 years of recovery, identification and digitization, the book-catalog El Fons Llull de l’Arxiu dels Marquesos de Santa Maria de Barberà (AMSMB) is published. The book allows us to know the Barcelona branch of the Ramon Llull family, both his interest in protecting and promoting the work and figure of the thinker as the footprint, influence and interests of the family in Barcelona, Mallorca, Sardinia or Valencia.
It was presented today in an academic day by the coordinator of the Coral Cuadrada publication, professor of Medieval History and Women’s History, Historiography and Archival (URV) and director of the private archive of the Marquesos of Santa Maria de Barberà, “the most important patrimonial archive in Catalonia ”, in her own words.
Under the direction of Cuadrada, up to 420 documents related to the Llull family, parchments and manuscripts from the middle of the s. XIII and until the s. XVII, moment in which the lineage extinguishes, were found. All of them can be consulted in the catalog published by the URV in collaboration with the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and Obra Social “la Caixa”.
The recovered documentation allows us to see the evolution of the Llull family as an influential family established in the Ribera neighborhood of Barcelona. A family that, one of the families of important merchants who built the church of Santa María del Mar, “icon of their power and activity “.
The recovered documents allow us to verify, according to the director of the archive, “not only family strategies through matrimonial ties and inheritance transfers patented in wills, but also to see how the main characters enter the business world – mills, butchers, currency rights, lezdas, rents, …– both in the city of Barcelona and the Balearic Islands, in Sardinia, Naples, Sicily.”
The book-catalog has been presented by Cuadrada in the presentation she has given in the framework of the academic conference “Master Ramón, the Llulls and the Mediterranean of his time”, which took place today at the Castello de Vilassar de Dalt, organized by l’IEMed and AMSBMB. In front of seventy attendees, mostly from the academic field, experts such as Mohamed Ouerfelli (University of Aix-Marseille), M. Dolores López Pérez, (University of Barcelona), and Albert Soler, Joan Santanach and Simone Sari (Documentation Center, Ramon Llull, University of Barcelona) have also presented.