Fundación Iberdrola España and the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation renew partnership to restore part of the Yuso Monastery Library collection

Six books dating from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries will undergo restoration work due to their fragile condition and urgent conservation needs. The selected works include Divinum ac proinde inestimabile…, one of the best-known texts by theologian and Dominican friar Sancho Porta; Tractatus de sphera, linked to the disciplines of the Quadrivium and written by Johannes de Sacrobosco, a 13th-century professor at the University of Paris; and a 1706 edition of Don Quixote
Fundación Iberdrola España has supported the restoration of the monastery library’s documentary collections since 2012

Art and culture

In the image pose José Luis Pérez Pastor, vice president of Fundación San Millán de la Cogolla; Almudena Martínez, general coordinator of the foundation; Ramón Castresana, director of Fundación Iberdrola España; Antonio Collada, head of art, culture and biodiversity; José Ramón Pérez, prior of Monastery of Yuso; and Eduardo Ryan, Iberdrola’s institutional delegate in La Rioja, in a historic library beside an ancient manuscript displayed on a table.

Representatives from the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation, the Iberdrola España Foundation, and the Monastery of Yuso in the monastery library.

Once again, Fundación Iberdrola España and the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation have renewed their collaboration agreement to support the restoration of part of the collection housed in the Yuso Monastery Library, one of the most important monastic libraries in the Hispanic world and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site declared in 1997.

Under the new agreement, Fundación Iberdrola España will contribute €15,000 towards the restoration of six books from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries that require urgent intervention due to their poor state of conservation. The project has received approval from the Augustinian Fathers, custodians of the Library, and from the Higher Council for Cultural, Historical and Artistic Heritage of La Rioja.

Representing the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation at the signing ceremony were vice-president José Luis Pérez Pastor and general coordinator Almudena Martínez. Representing Fundación Iberdrola España were its director, Ramón Castresana, and the head of the art, culture and biodiversity departments, Antonio Collada. Also attending were the prior of the Monastery of Yuso, José Ramón Pérez, and Iberdrola’s institutional representative in La Rioja, Eduardo Ryan.

José Luis Pérez Pastor thanked Fundación Iberdrola España for its continued support for the work of the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation and, in particular, for its commitment to preserving and protecting the monasteries in the region. “There is no doubt,” he said, “that the collections of the Yuso Library, heir to the former Suso scriptorium, are of enormous importance to bibliographic history, and their conservation is a priority for this region.”

For his part, Ramón Castresana highlighted that “supporting the restoration of these codices, which are of great heritage value, is one of the ways in which Fundación Iberdrola España contributes to preserving cultural heritage and the legacy of our language.”

You can read the full article about the restoration of part of the Yuso Monastery Library collection on the Fundación Iberdrola España website.

Fundación Iberdrola España and the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation renew partnership to restore part of the Yuso Monastery Library collection

Fundación Iberdrola España and the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation renew partnership to restore part of the Yuso Monastery Library collection

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