Sobre els manuscrits i l’autor de la Doctrina moral d’en Pacs

This paper analyses from a material and textual viewpoint the four preserved manuscripts containing the Doctrina moral, a work written in the first half of the 15th century by a man from Majorca from the Pacs family. The study of these copies gives us new information about some of the most controversial aspects of this work, such as authorship and date. The two witnesses owned by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France are related to the Italian city of Naples, while the manuscript of the Biblioteca de Catalunya could have been in possession of a branch of the Pacs family, the Conilleres. The codex of the Arxiu de la Corona d’Aragó, edited by Bofarull (1857), presents a more innovative copy, with many different lessons from the other three witnesses.