La caracterización lingüística del Cancionero de Llavia: versiones y textos únicos

Abstract

The Cancionero de Llavia was published by the Hurus printing press in Saragossa between 1484 and 1488. The fame of this songbook is due, above all, to its reputation as a trailblazer of the dawn of the printing press in Spain and to its status as a testimony of the Coplas por la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique. After presenting a general introduction to the incidence of songbooks in the historiography of the Spanish language, this article provides a linguistic characterization of a corpus of poems from the incunabulum under consideration: the analysis involves graphic, syntactic, morphological, lexical aspects, and, finally, formulas, quotations as well as other elements of “repeated discourse” that can be identified in the studied texts.

Keywords

• incunabula period
• Hurus
• history of the Spanish language
• 15th century Castilian