Condaghe
A condaghe, also known as a fundaghe, was a kind of administrative document used in the Sardinian judicates between the 11th and 13th centuries. They are one of the earliest witnesses for the development of the Sardinian language and are an important source for historians of medieval Sardinia. The word derives from the medieval Sardinian term kondake, from.
The original condaghes were collections of acts of donations to churches or monasteries. Later condaghes were kept by noble families for recording inheritances, purchases, donations, transactions and litigation, principally when relating to the church. The chief object of such records was to provide precise dates in case of legal dispute.
Physically, the first condaghes were scrolls: overlapping parchment manuscripts wound tightly around a kontákion. Over time they took on the familiar form of a codex. They were produced in the scriptoria of monasteries and cathedrals, but the great majority have been lost. Only some condaghes have been preserved, with most of them being of ecclesiastical kind like the condaghes of the monasteries of Saint Mary of Bonarcado, Saint Michael of Salvennor, San [Nicola di Trullas|Saint Nicola of Trullas], Saint Peter of Silki, and of the Basilica of San Gavino. There is only a single condaghe of laical kind left, the one of Judge Barisone II of Logudoro.