Nodicia de Kesos
The Nodicia de Kesos (also Documento de Kesos , " Cheese Message ", Neo-Indonesian documentu de queisos , New Castilian documento de quesos ) is the oldest known Spanish document that was not written in Latin , but in an Ibero-Roman dialect .
No di cia de
kesos que
espisit f (rate) r
se meno Inlab [ore]
def (rat) r (e) s Inilo ba
cela re
decir ke scelus
te kesos.U.Inilo
alio de apa te
Il kesos en que
pu seron ogano
kesos: IIII Inilo ...
“Note on
cheese that
Brother
Semeno distributed: for the work of
the brothers In the
vineyard
around San Justo
: 5 cheeses. In the
abbot's other:
2 cheeses. In the one
they put on this year:
4 cheeses. By doing ..."
The text is an inventory list of the cheese wheels , which was drawn up by a monk in the Monasterio de los santos Justo y Pastor in Rozuela near León . Stylistically, the language used is far from the legal Latin, which was used for most of the documents of that time, many groups of words are repeated and the nodicia appears very spontaneous and freely written.
The document, dated about AD 974 , was written on the back of another document, a deed of donation from 956 , which had lost its meaning. While the language of the deed of gift is regular Latin, the Nodicia was written in Vulgar Latin , which was customary at the time . It is thus the oldest known written application of Vulgar Latin in the Iberian Peninsula , from which Leonese developed in this area.
The document is a reflection of the language used at the time, as it was spoken. All other sources from that period reflect the literary language used, Latin. The language of the document corresponds to the then developing dialect in the Kingdom of León and can therefore not be ascribed to today's Castilian or Asturian.
The original is kept in the archives of the Cathedral of León as manuscript 852v .
Web link
- Figure of the Nodicia de kesos. Retrieved January 5, 2015 .
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- ^ Thomas Krefeld: Introduction to Romance Linguistics (facsimile with translation on p. 9). (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 26, 9 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fernández M .: La "Nodicia de kesos" y los problemas de la documentación del siglo X sobre el origen de los monasterios independientes de Rozuela y Cillanueva. In: Catálogo del Archivo Histórico Diocesano de León
