Fragment of the ‘Doctrina pueril’ (Peurile Doctrine) of Ramon Llull - Photo: Govern d'Andorra
The Arxiu Nacional d’Andorra (National Archive of Andorra) has added to the commemoration of the Any Llull (the Year of Ramon Llull) with the on-line publication of the ‘Doctrina pueril’ by the Mallorcan author. It is a work included in the ‘Còdex miscel·lani’ (documents and fragments of books of various origins which were bound together) which dates from the 13th to the 15th centuries.
The ‘Doctrina pueril’, which Ramon Llull dedicated to his son, explains the basic doctrine of the Christian faith to a secular public. Written in Mallorca between the years 1274 and 1276, as well as the catechism, it also incorporates information on the 3 major religions, paganism, the 7 liberal arts of the trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy), the sciences of mediaeval universities (theology, law and medicine) and an introduction to aristotelianism.
The text, written in two columns and in the italics of the 14th century, is now available on the website of the Arxiu Nacional d’Andorra.
