Menéndez Pidal's History of the Spanish Language: Old Spanish Manuscript Notes (1230-1380)

Ramón Menéndez Pidal's handwritten notes from the archive for his 'History of the Spanish Language' project, specifically for the period 1230-1380. The dataset provides access to the slips from drawer 4, box 1, organized into sections on the scholarly renewal of the language (1230-1295) and the apogee and end of the didactic tendency (1295 -1380). Inés Fernández-Ordóñez authored this dataset, which was last updated on May 5, 2024.

Use Cases

• Trace the scholarly renewal of the Spanish language between 1230 and 1295 based on the manuscript notes.
• Study the apogee and decline of didactic literary tendencies from 1295 to 1380 based on the archival organization.
• Analyze lexical or grammatical changes in Old Spanish based on the philological annotations in the slips.
• Digitally reconstruct the research archive of a foundational Spanish philologist based on the provided manuscript data.

Strengths

• Provides direct access to the primary research notes of Ramón Menéndez Pidal, a foundational figure in Spanish philology.
• Covers a defined and significant historical period for the Spanish language from 1230 to 1380.
• Content is organized into two distinct historical-philological sections, suggesting a structured archival approach.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for computational tasks.
• The dataset consists of scans or transcriptions of handwritten slips, which may present OCR or legibility challenges.

Provenance

Source

Archive of the 'History of the Spanish Language' project by Ramón Menéndez Pidal.

Collection Method

Harvested from the e-cienciaDatos Dataverse repository.

Time Range

Covers the historical period 1230-1380, with notes organized into sub-periods 1230-1295 and 1295-1380.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05 05 07:26:01; freshness should be verified

Geography

Likely focuses on the Iberian Peninsula, given the subject, but specific geography is not stated.