Editando O Livro de José de Arimatéia

Abstract

The Portuguese text Livro de José de Arimateia is a XVIth. century copy of an older translation of the French arthurian romance Estoire del Saint Graal. No critical edition has yet been published of the Livro. This paper proposes that such an edition should try to reconstruct the XIIIth. century original of the port. translation by means of emendations based on French manuscripts instead of just reproducing the extant port. copy. As a sample, chapt. XCI is edited here. Some of its readings suggest that the manuscript translated into Portuguese occupied a higher stemmatic level than most of the extant French manuscripts.