Photo of the medieval manuscripts
Claudio García Turza, one of the most renowned scholars worldwide in the study of the history of the origins of Romance languages, spent three weeks on campus working with faculty and students as one of this year’s FCCS Visiting Scholars.
During his visit, Dr. Turza donated a facsimile of three medieval manuscripts that belong to the Royal Academy of History in Spain. The manuscripts show the first examples of a romance language that were originally held at the monastery of San Millan de la Cogolla. As the director of the Centro Internacional de Investigación de la Lengua Española , Dr. Turza was in charge in the transcription, study and notation of the manuscripts.
left to right: Paige Hohmann, Diana Carter, Claudio Garcia Turza, Robert Eggleston, Stephen Foster, Francisco Pena
Dr. Turza brought these valuable books that contain the facsimile and edited volumes of these medieval manuscripts as a gift to UBCO as a token of the collaboration that is being establishing between UBC and the Centro Internacional de Investigacion de la Lengua Espanola (Research Centre for the Study of the Spanish Language).
“We are exceptionally fortunate to be able to accept this kind donation from Dr. Turza as a visiting scholar,” says Paige Hohmann, Special Collections Librarian.
The titles of the manuscripts are:
- Fuentes españolas altomedievales. El códice emilianense 46 de la Real Academia de la Historia, primer diccionario enciclopédico de la Península Ibérica. Edición y estudio. Real Academia de la Historia, 1997
- El códice emilianense 31 de la Real Academia de la Historia. Real Academia de la Historia, 2004.
- Los primitivos romances hispánicos. Nuevas aportaciones desde los glosarios visigóticos. Cilengua, 2011
Located in the Library on UBC’s Okanagan Campus, the Okanagan Special Collections (OSC) provides a repository for titles published in and about the Okanagan and neighbouring regions of British Columbia, a variety of titles that support the teaching and learning needs of the campus, as well as archival collections that present the rich and dynamic history of the region. The collection mandate also extends to publications of and special donations from faculty at UBC Okanagan.
For more information about the Special Collection, visit library.ok.ubc.ca/use-the-library/collections/special-collections-archives/