Establishing a critical edition of a medieval manuscript: a report of a difficult experience

Abstract

Detailed narrative of the author deals with Portuguese medieval manuscripts, larded with aspects of their academic life: the undergraduate program, where she was a student of Nelson Rossi, and produced together, edition and glossary of O Livro das Aves (1965); the Master’s work, with guidance of Nelson Rossi – reading, critical apparatus and glossary of book 2 of Os Diálogos de São Gregório, the life of St Benedict – 1965 (Unb); the Doctoral work, with grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation, in Portugal and Brazil, with guidance from Luís Filipe Lindley Cintra and Isaac Nicolau Salum-ending Edition of 4 books and history of manuscripts – 1971 (USP); the Postdoctoral fellow, with guidance of Celso Cunha – linguistic description of the version A of Os Diálogos de São Gregório, which resulted in the book Estruturas Trecentistas – 1982 (UFRJ); rise of PROHPOR, the research group that she has founded, in partnership, in 1990 (UFBA).