Ramón Menéndez Pidal's handwritten notes from the archive of the History of the Spanish Language, covering the period from 1474 to 1555. The dataset, curated by Inés Fernández-Ordóñez, provides access to the contents of archiver 1, drawer 6, titled 'El español áureo. Renacimiento humanístico'. Its organization differentiates sections on Humanism, the triumph of Italianism, language evolution, other Hispanic languages, and international relations.
Use Cases
- Trace the evolution of Spanish grammar and vocabulary based on the 'Evolución del idioma (siglos XV-XVI)' section.
- Study the influence of Italian culture and language based on the 'Triunfo del italianismo (1525-1555)' section.
- Analyze the impact of Humanism on Spanish based on the 'El humanismo (1474-1525)' section.
- Research the relationships between Spanish and other Hispanic languages based on the 'Las otras lenguas hispanas' section.
Strengths
- Provides direct access to the primary manuscript notes of a foundational Spanish philologist, Ramón Menéndez Pidal.
- The content is organized into distinct thematic sections, suggesting a structured archival resource.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- The dataset consists of scanned manuscript notes, which may require transcription or specialized paleographic skills for analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Archive of the History of the Spanish Language, archiver 1, drawer 6.
- Collection Method
- Harvested from the e-cienciaDatos Dataverse repository.
- Time Range
- 1474-1555
- Freshness
- Last updated 2024-05-05 05:45:54; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
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