Critérios de leitura de manuscritos: em busca de lições fidedignas

Abstract

This article aims to propose a discussion about the importance of the use of criteria for the reading of manuscripts as an indispensable procedure for the production of reliable lessons. They are necessary for the elimination of unsolved questions and, consequently, the scope for a reading without hesitations, because they are essential to the recognition and distinction of graphical characters of each text. The text is divided into two parts. First, philological works and their problems are contextualized, showing, by means of examples of the work of important researchers, changes in the way of editing documents. The second part deals with the importance of the use of criteria for reading and how it is done in practice,by means of examples taken from manuscripts of the eighteenth century.