Léxico de la vida cotidiana en protocolos notariales de la Vega Alta del Segura (1565-1620)

Abstract

The aim of this research is to carry out the study of the lexicon of everyday life, focused on four categories, which include the voices referring to the fields of personal grooming, textile fittings, the measurement system and the so-called livestock goods, based on original and unpublished notarized documentation, currently kept in the notarial protocols section of the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Murcia, which has been fully transcribed to achieve the proposed end. The documentary basis that constitutes the foundations of this study is made up of property relations, endowed in one of the three localities of the Vega Alta del Segura region (Región de Murcia) in the period between 1565 and 1620. The ultimate aim of this research is to delve into an unexplored documentary collection to show a portrait of the lexical usage in a geographical area still unknown from a diachronic point of view. To carry out an investigation of this nature, it has been necessary to configure a corpus that would serve as a source of study. In order to do this, we proceeded to review the set of notarial protocols preserved in the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Murcia that contained deeds drawn up during the limited time interval in any of the three localities that make up the current region of Vega Alta del Segura: Cieza, Abarán and Blanca. In total, 62 notarial protocols were consulted and those documents that were in a good state of conservation and that presented the textual provision of the property relations were selected. The selection of the sources was based on criteria of temporal, geographical and typological nature. The textual samples collected amounted to 157 documents, of which 105 were endowed in Cieza, 18 in Abarán and 34 in Blanca. Specifically, our research has allowed undocumented or poorly documented terms to this date to be brought to light, broadening the semantic or geographical scope of some words, witnessing the appearance of voices or neological meanings created to name the needs of the society of the Golden Age, as well as to verify the presence of terms from other languages or dialect varieties due to factors such as geographical proximity, historical contacts, the establishment of commercial ties or the adoption of foreign customs, which has served to deepen the knowledge of the Spanish lexicon of the Golden Age and to better understand the situation of the Murcian enclave in the variational context of the Castilian language.