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Link to the original, in Latin and Italian (starts page 26): http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000056943 http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000056943 If I unde

• schoen 6y ago
  This looks much more like Catalan than either Latin or Italian to me. I was having a little trouble reading the handwriting, so I searched for a few of the words and found a printed text in Google Books [https://books.google.com/books?id=Sw9C_I_5h9YC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=Sw9C_I_5h9YC&pg=PA99&lpg=P...] that includes a complete transcription (with some accentuation and punctuation modernized). That first paragraph is > Primerament, a tal que Nostre Señor Déu sia servit haver misericòrdia y aplacar la yra de sa justa indignatió que té sobre la dita ciutat, procuraran los habitadors de aquella de emplear-se en fer dejunis, almoines, vots y exercitar-se en obres pies. Thinking of this as Catalan, it should mean something like > First, so that Our Lord God may be pleased to have mercy and assuage the wrath of his just indignation that he has against the said city, its inhabitants will try to employ themselves in making fasts, alms, vows, and engaging in pious works. Google Translate can also interpret most of it as Catalan, so I'm gaining confidence in my Catalan theory!
  • Bayart 6y ago
    It is Catalan. Alghero was and is a Catalan-speaking town.