Corpus de escrituras expuestas y su interés para la historia del españolexvotos pintados de la provincia de Guadalajara

Abstract

The objective of this work is to present a special corpus of popular public writing in the centres of devotion of the province of Guadalajara; in particular a corpus of painted votive offering dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries. The pictures represent the event that gave rise to the miracle or favour received with his card; but in our corpus are only included those votive offerings that are accompanied by explanatory text, which testifies to the favour received with precise information, as name, cause, date, place, etc.The Corpus includes the reproduction of the votive offering, the paleographic transcription of the document and its critical presentation. The careful study of these three elements will allow us to extract interesting conclusions for the history of Spanish in aspects related to spelling, punctuation, syntactic structures and formulas used, lexicon, etc.; some samples that are collected in this article.