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.