CENTRO DE LINGUÍSTICA DA UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA
Sub-Unit 4 — Philology and Historical Linguistics
Sub-project ‘Philology and Historical Linguistics: Primary Sources for the History of the Portuguese
Language (PHILOLOGIA)’
Principal Investigator: Dr António H. F. P. A. Emiliano
http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/philologia/index.html • [email protected]
Veterum sequentes exempla quod firmum
ac stabile fieri uoluimus kartis et litteris
mandamus.
[IAN/TT, Mosteiro de Arouca, m. 4, n.º 28,
a.D. 1178]
SUB-PROJECT: PHILOLOGIA — PHILOLOGY AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
ANNUAL REPORT (2006)
Subproject title
PO: Filologia e Linguística Histórica: Edição e Estudo de Fontes para a História da
Língua Portuguesa
EN: Philology and Historical Linguistics: Primary Sources for the History of the
Portuguese Language
Short title
PHILOLOGIA
Main scientific area
PO: Ciências da Linguagem
EN: Language Sciences
Principal investigator
António Henrique de Figueiredo Pedro de Albuquerque Emiliano
Summary of results (as of March 2006)
INTRODUCTORY REMARK:
As of March 2005 several tasks of this subproject are explicitly included in the
manifesto of the autonomous project THE ORIGINS OF THE PORTUGUESE
LANGUAGE: DIGITIZATION, EDITION AND LINGUISTIC STUDY OF
CHARTERS FROM THE 9th-10th CENTURIES (Ref. POCI/LIN/58815/2004). This
will entail slight changes in future reports in the tasks' descriptions and goals. Those
tasks that are common to both projects will be mentioned in the annual reports of
both projects, because some of the funding of Sub-unit 4 has been allocated to the
ORIGINS budget. The delays in the arrival of the funds from FCT resulted in a
considerable delay in the completion of several goals for 2004 and 2005. Several of
the tasks were therefore not completed or developed according to plan during this
triennium.
Task #1 – criteria and guidelines for palaeographic and normalized editions:
creation of detailed reports containing the discussion of criteria and guidelines
for publishing medieval documents, illustrated with 20-30 Medieval Portuguese
texts
STATUS: in progress
COMMENTS: several reports containing criteria and guidelines for the editon and
publication of medieval texts have already been produced and posted at the CLUNL
website. A general document or handbook containing guidelines and editorial
procedures for the transcription and edition of medieval documents must yet must
be produced. The reports that have already been written and posted on the CLUNL
website are being merged, and additional material is being compiled. The guidelines
must crucially refer to texts written in the Visigothic script. The final version will not
be completed before 2007.
Task #2 – transcription of select Medieval Portuguese texts in palaeographic and
normal formats
STATUS: in progress [behind schedule]
COMMENTS: transcription of 9th-10th centuries Latin-Portuguese documents is in
progress an in schedule with the autonomous project ORIGINS OF THE
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE (POCI/LIN/58815/2004) — which is an off-shoot of
this subproject. Transcription of documents from the Chancery of King D. Afonso III
is behind schedule — awaiting digitization of the mansucript. Transcription of other
texts, namely non-dispositive documents from the 12th and 13th centuries is in
progress and in schedule.
Task #3 – graphemic study of Latin-Portuguese and Old Portuguese documents
STATUS: suspended [behind schedule]
COMMENTS: so far only a few documents have been subjected to a thorough
graphemic analysis; this task crucially requires the completion of Tasks #1, #2, and
#4.
Task #4 – photography of manuscripts in 9x12cm slide format and digitization of
slides with high-resolution scanner
STATUS: test phase complete; replaced by High Resolution Direct Digitization
COMMENTS: several images of medieval manuscripts in 9x12cm slide format were
commissioned from the National Archive of Torre do Tombo in 2004 and 2005, and
were then digitized with a high resolution professional flat-bed scanner, and were
printed in large-sized colour-proofs. Although these images were of high quality, we
realized that color control quality and digital resolution was however not up to the
highest standards or the requirements of a philological project. This task was
therefore abandoned and replaced by High Resolution Direct Digitization (HRDD).
The first campaign of digitization of documents from 12th and 13th centuries was
prepared in late 2005, and took place on the last half of March 2006. 41 manuscripts
were digitized (recto and verso). The image files were captured with a computerized
Sinar camera and were exported by the application Sinar CaptureShop to .tif format.
Image resolution ranges from 520 to 678 dpi (according to the size of the
manuscript). File sizes range from 8x5.334Kpixels (produced with 16 shots) to
13x10Kpixels (produced with 16 shots per quadrant = 64 shots). All images were
produced with 16-bit colour depth per channel (48 bits). The photographer is Dr
David Cooper, an Oxford-based leading expert and pioneer on digital photography
of manuscripts. Task #4 of the subproject philologia is currently being carried out in
parallel with the autonomous project ORIGINS OF THE PORTUGUESE
LANGUAGE (ref. POCI/LIN/58815/2004). The groundwork for the first ever
Portuguese Archive of High Resolution Digital Images of Medieval manuscripts is
thus lain. Also an unprecedented collaboration with a Portuguese university and the
National Archive of Torre do Tombo was begun: because of this collaboration which
involves several departments at the National Archive, a number of badly damaged
and endangered charters were repaired and restored by the Conservation
Departament. We have also been able to implement a routine of procedures that
encompass the examination, restoration, formal description and digitization of
manuscripts. We are also collaborating with the Archive in developing their database
of manuscripts.
PUBLICATIONS 2005
1. Expected indicators (2005)
A - Publications
Books
Chapters in books
Papers in international journals
Papers in national journals
B - Communications
In international meetings
In national meetings
C - Reports
D - Organization of seminars and conferences
E - Advanced Training
PhD Theses
Master Theses
Others
F - Models
G - Software
H - Pilot Plants
I - Prototypes
J - Patents
K - Others: Archive of digital images of medieval mss
Expected
1
1
0
0
Completed
4
2
2
0
2
0
1
1
4
3
0
1*
1
0
1
0
0
1*
* in progress
2. List of publications (2005)
• Books
Banza, Ana Paula, (in press, 2006) [accepted 2003, proofread 2004]. «A Representação
dos motivos que tive para me parecerem prováveis as Proposições de que se trata» de Padre
António Vieira: Edição crítica, estudo introdutório, notas e glossários, Lisboa: Imprensa
Nacional / Casa da Moeda
Banza, Ana Paula / Espírito Santo, Arnaldo / Pimentel, Cristina (in press, 2006)
[accepted 2004]. Sermões, de Padre António Vieira: Edição crítica, Lisboa: Imprensa
Nacional / Casa da Moeda, 1.º Volume
Banza, Ana Paula / Espírito Santo, Arnaldo / Pimentel, Cristina (in progress).
Sermões, de Padre António Vieira, edição crítica de Arnaldo Espírito Santo, Cristina
Pimentel e Ana Paula Banza, 2º. Vol., Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda
(to be published in 2006)
• Chapters in books
Emiliano, António 2005. "A documentação latino-portuguesa dos séculos IX-X e as
origens da escrita portuguesa medieval: considerações gerais e preliminares", in
FERNÁNDEZ CATÓN, José María, Ed., Orígenes de las Lenguas Romances en el Reino
de León. Siglos IX-XII, León: Centro de Estudios e Investigación «San Isidoro» / Caja
España de Inversiones / Archivo Histórico Diocesano (Fuentes y Estudios de
Historia Leonesa 103 &104), Vol. II, 589 – 616
Emiliano, António 2005. "Representational models vs. operational models of literacy
in Latin-Romance legal documents (with special reference to Latin-Portuguese
texts)", in WRIGHT, Roger / RICKETTS, Peter, Eds. Studies in Romance languages
dedicated to Ralph Penny, Newark: Juan de la Cuesta Monographs (Hispanic
Monographs, Estudios Lingüísticos Nº 7, Homenajes Nº 24), 17 – 58, by invitation of
Professor Roger Wright
• Dissertations
Pedro, Susana (in progress). O género diplomático “notícia” na documentação portuguesa
medieval (sécs. IX- XIV): caracterização tipológica e estudo paleográfico, doctoral
dissertation to be submitted to Universidade de Lisboa, under the supervision of Dr
Bernardo de Sá Nogueira (foreseen date of conclusion 2007).
• Papers in international scientific periodicals with referees
Emiliano, António 2005. "A edição e interpretação da documentação antiga de
Portugal: problemas e perspectivas da Filologia Portuguesa face ao estudo das
origens da escrita em Português", in Aemilianense. Revista Internacional sobre la génesis
y los orígenes históricos de las lenguas romances, 1 (2004): 33–63, by invitation of
Professor Claudio García Turza
Emiliano, António 2005. "A reply to Prof. AlbertoVàrvaro’s ‘Nota’ published in
Medievo Romanzo XXVII, fascicolo II", Medievo Romanzo 28 [2004]: 444 – 452
Emiliano, António / Brocardo, Teresa (in press) [accepted 2001, proofread 2003].
“Considerações sobre a edição de fontes para a história da língua portuguesa”, in
Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies 6, by invitation of the editors, Professors Harvey
Sharrer and Eduardo Paiva Raposo
• Papers in international conference proceedings
Banza, Ana Paula 2005. “A «Retórica cativa» – Vieira e a Inquisição”, in Die Rhetorik
António Vieiras, Akten der Sektion “António Vieira und die portugiesische Rhetorik des 17.
Jahrunderts” beim V. Deutschen Lusitanistentag, Rostock (25-28 September 2003), hrsg.
von Alberto Gil und Werner Thielemann, Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag, 3 – 12
Banza, Ana Paula 2005. “O manuscrito autógrafo: janela indiscreta sobre a
intimidade do autor?”, 2005, Gramática e Humanismo, Actas do Colóquio de Homenagem
a Amadeu Torres, Faculdade de Filosofia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga,
2005, vol. I, pp. 247-256
Banza, Ana Paula (in press) [accepted 2000]. “Da História do futuro à Clavis
Prophetarum: A grande Obra incompleta”, in Actas do Congresso Internacional
«Quinhentos Anos de Língua Portuguesa no Brasil» (Universidade de Évora, 2000)
Emiliano, António (in progress). “Latim bárbaro: facts and assumptions behind a
philological myth (remarks on the latinity of 10th-century Portuguese dated
documents)”, presentation to the Eighth International Late and Vulgar Latin Conference,
St Catherine's College Oxford, 6 – 9 September 2006, by invitation of the convenors
Emiliano, António (in preparation). “A produção documental proto-portuguesa do
séc. XII e a chamada “produção primitiva” portuguesa do séc. XIII: continuidade ou
ruptura? (algumas considerações gerais sobre o desenvolvimento da língua notarial
portuguesa dos sécs. XII-XIII)” [provisional title], presentation to the International
Colloquium «Internacional Reinos, lenguas y dialectos en la Edad Media ibérica. La
construcción de la identidad», Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía
y Letras, 16 – 17 November 2006, by invitation of the convenors
• Papers in national conference proceedings
Pedro, Susana (in press) [accepted 2005]. "Análise paleográfica das anotações
marginais e finais no ‘Cancioneiro da Ajuda‘", in RAMOS, Maria Ana / AMADO,
Teresa, Eds. Proceedings of «Colóquio Cancioneiro da Ajuda (1904-2004), Lisboa, 11-13 de
Novembro de 2004, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa», by invitation of the
convenors and editors
• Reports
Emiliano, António (in progress). Critérios para a realização de edições interpretativas de
fontes medievais para a história da língua portuguesa (v.3), (Guidelines for the normalized
transcription and edition of medieval primary sources for the History of the
Portuguese Language), complete revision of v.2.1 (2002), to be completed in late 2006
/ early 2007; to be published in book format
Æ 2006/04/30