An early paper about the correction write direction of the Chancellor’s documental path

Abstract

The study focuses on the careful analysis of a chancellery document that dates approximately between 1502 and 1504. It consists on a draft formerly used in the Catholic Kings Chancellery for the scribes to accurately express the addresses of the documents which came out of it. This draft, a summary of the work, not only lists all the addresses of the Hispanic kingdoms, but also describes in more or less detail all the relations that were held with the rest of European courts −England, France, the Empire, Navarre, Naples, Hungary and even Norway, Denmark and Vatican City…− and personalises, in many occasions, the way it addresses the different figures from these courts. An identification of all them has been made, as well as an analysis of how the address was described. We want to draw your attention to the novelty that involves, not this practice itself, but its meticulous expression in the new administrative field and the triumph it implies for any written document and its correction. The relations of each of these addresses with each other were meticulously described, which shows a great progress for that time, because of the presence of precision and, therefore, because of the importance that was given to each of these addresses.