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.