La vie municipale à Coimbra en 1145

The article provides the analysis of a document from the so-called Livro Preto of the Coimbra Cathedral, currently in the National Archive of Torre do Tombo in Lisbon. This document is dated 1145, nearly a century after the town of Coimbra was reconquered by the Christians in 1064. The document, entitled Correctio morum Colimbriae a civibus omnibus statuta aims to amend the local legislation concerning seven points. This document is not only significant from the point of view of the town’s history but also from the state of the language which – at that time – still contained several terms of Arabic origin no longer in use.