Edição semidiplomática de documentos manuscritos do século XVIII (1705-1719) lavrados pelo Conselho Ultramarino, com vistas a oferecer edição confiável para a pesquisa em História da Língua Portuguesa e Lingüística Histórica. Trata-se de estudo baseado em critérios paleográficos que busca oferecer subsídios para a escrita desse século, visto que a bibliografia a respeito é muito escassa. Este trabalho está dividido em três partes: 1) descrição do corpus e comentário sobre o provável escriba dos documentos do Conselho Ultramarino; 2) caracterização da escrita presente no corpus, seu processo de leitura e levantamento detalhado do alfabeto, com descrição do processo de formação de cada letra e classificação das abreviaturas; 3) edição semidiplomática dos documentos. / Semidiplomatic edition of manuscripts documents of XVIII century (1705-1719), cultivated by the Conselho Ultramarino, in Portugal, with sights to offer trustworthy edition for the research in Portuguese Language and Historical Linguistic. One is about study based on paleographical criteria that it searches to offer subsidies for the writing of this century, since the bibliography the respect is very scarce. This work is divided in three parts: 1) description of the corpus and brief explanation about the probable scribe of documents of the Conselho Ultramarino; 2) characterization of the present writing in the corpus, its process of reading and the detailed survey of the alphabet, with description of the process of formation of each letter and classification of abbreviations; 3) the semidiplomatic edition of documents.

Edição semidiplomática de corpus selecionado a partir do códice ?Ofícios do Vice-Rei para o Governador da Capitania 1793/98?, visando a fornecer fonte fidedigna para futuros estudos filológicos, lingüísticos, históricos e culturais do período. Trata-se também de um estudo mais detalhado desse códice catarinense que contextualiza historicamente os documentos que o compõem, assim como aborda aspectos paleográficos, codicológicos e diplomáticos com o propósito de responder a questionamentos e hipóteses surgidos durante a edição acerca de sua composição, criação e origem. Este trabalho descreve codicológica e paleograficamente o códice em geral, apresenta uma demonstração de diferentes punhos e procura levantar traços de natureza fonológica de um manuscrito dentro do códice. Consta também deste trabalho uma tentativa de identificação tipológica mais adequada através da composição de um verbete descritivo do corpus. / Semidiplomatic edition of the selected corpus from the codex ?Oficios do Vice Rei para o Governador da Capitania 1793/98? (Memorandums from the Vice-king to the Governor of the Province 1793/98?) seeking to provide a trustworthy source to further philological, linguistical, historical and cultural studies of such period. It is also a thorough study of this Catarinense (from Santa Catarina) codex that put its documents into a historical perspective. It touches its paleographic, codicological and diplomatic aspects aiming to address questionings and hypotheses raised during the editing process concerning its composition, how it was assembled, and its origin. This work describes the codex general paleography and codicology. It presents a demonstration of different handwritings and attempts to raise traces of phonological aspects from the codex. This project also proposes a more adequate typological identification of the documents, through descriptive summaries of each memo.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal a leitura e transcrição paleográfica semi-diplomática do manuscrito que se encontra na Coleção Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, Lata 352, Maço I, do Arquivo Histórico do Itamaraty. Faz parte também o estudo da letra e do documento utilizando recursos da paleografia e da diplomática para datar o manuscrito e comprovar a autoria do mesmo, bem como o estudo da trajetória do historiador com intuito de delimitar o período provável que a obra foi escrita. A transcrição completa do manuscrito feita neste trabalho tem como o intuito a edição deste documento histórico inédito. / This paper\'s main objective is the semi-diplomatic paleographic transcription of the manuscript that is in the collection of Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, Lata 352, Maço I, in the Itamaraty Historical Archive. It is also part of the study, improve the study of the letter and the document using paleography and diplomatic resources to date this manuscript and prove the authorship of it, as well as the sutdy of the trajectory of the autor to determine the period of time the text was written. Full transcription of the manuscript done in this paper is to order the publication of this unprecedented historical document.

Esta dissertação tem como primeiro objetivo preparar as edições facsimilar e semidiplomática de atas da Câmara Municipal de Botucatu, datadas de 1858 e 1859. Por ser o trabalho filológico uma atividade multidisciplinar, propomo-nos, também, a levantar alguns aspectos codicológicos e paleográfios do livro no qual estas atas se encontram. Durante a leitura destes documentos, notamos que os diferentes alógrafos dos grafemas s e z, especialmente em posição intervocálica, podem, muitas vezes, proporcionar dificuldades de leitura a pesquisadores preocupados com questões de linguística histórica. Além da variação entre alógrafos, há também a variação no emprego dos grafemas s e z quanto à representação de diferentes fonemas. Baseados na constatação de que s e z apresentam variação quanto à forma e ao fonema que representam, nosso segundo objetivo é examinar, no corpus estudado, ocorrências de alografia de s e z que suscitam maior dificuldade do ponto de vista paleográfico e verificar a variação de uso dos grafemas s e z apenas em posição intervocálica. / The first objective of this dissertation is to prepare both the fac-similar and the semi diplomatic editions of minutes of the municipal council of Botucatu, São Paulo State, which date back to 1858 and 1859. As the philological labor is a multidisciplinary activity, we also propose to raise some codicological and paleographic aspects of the book in which these minutes lie. While reading these documents, we noticed that the different writings of the graphemes s and z, especially in intervocalic position, might, at times, cause difficulties in reading to researchers preoccupied with historic linguistics issues, because the variation, both in writing and use of these letters, is wide. Besides this, there is also variation in the use of the graphemes s and z in representing different phonemes. Based on the finding that s and z present variation both in shape and the phoneme they represent, our second objective is to examine, in our corpus, occurrences of s and z allographs that raise greater paleography difficulties and verify the variation in the use of the graphemes s and z only in intervocalic position.

O propósito deste trabalho é estabelecer uma edição semidiplomática justalinear do manuscrito inédito e completo da Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa, cód. 677, intitulado História Topográfica e Bélica da Nova Colônia do Sacramento do Rio da Prata, contribuindo assim para futuras pesquisas filológicas, lingüísticas e históricas. Mantemos todos os pormenores quanto às correções e acréscimos existentes no texto, a fim de evidenciar que o testemunho contém uma obra ainda em elaboração. O trabalho trata dos seguintes aspectos da obra: Autoria, obra e contexto histórico; Testemunhos conhecidos; Normas de transcrição e Edição semidiplomática do manuscrito de Lisboa. / The intention of this work is to establish a justalinear semidiplomatic edition of the unknown and complete manuscript of the Lisbon National Library, codex 677, intitled História Topográfica e Bélica da Nova Colônia do Sacramento do Rio da Prata, contributing for future philological, linguistic and historical researches, thus. We keep all the details about the existing corrections and additions in the text, in order to substantiate that the testemony still contains a work in elaboration. This work deals with the following aspects of the work: Authorship, work and historical context; Known testemonies; Rules for transcription and Semidiplomatic edition of the Lisbon manuscript.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal a leitura e transcrição paleográfica semi-diplomática do manuscrito que se encontra na Coleção Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, Lata 352, Maço I, do Arquivo Histórico do Itamaraty. Faz parte também o estudo da letra e do documento utilizando recursos da paleografia e da diplomática para datar o manuscrito e comprovar a autoria do mesmo, bem como o estudo da trajetória do historiador com intuito de delimitar o período provável que a obra foi escrita. A transcrição completa do manuscrito feita neste trabalho tem como o intuito a edição deste documento histórico inédito. / This paper\'s main objective is the semi-diplomatic paleographic transcription of the manuscript that is in the collection of Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, Lata 352, Maço I, in the Itamaraty Historical Archive. It is also part of the study, improve the study of the letter and the document using paleography and diplomatic resources to date this manuscript and prove the authorship of it, as well as the sutdy of the trajectory of the autor to determine the period of time the text was written. Full transcription of the manuscript done in this paper is to order the publication of this unprecedented historical document.

This dissertation explores the complex interactions among written text, language choice, and political context in Wales in the late-eleventh and early-twelfth centuries. I argue that writers in medieval Wales created in both their literary compositions and their manuscripts intricate layers of protest and subversion in direct opposition to the authority of the Anglo-Norman political hegemony and the aggrandizing spread of the Canterbury-led church. These medieval literati exploited language and script as tools of definition. They privileged Welsh or Latin when their audience shifted, and they employed the change from early Insular script to the Caroline script of the Normans as not just a natural evolution in script development, but as a selective representation of mimicked authority. The family of Bishop Sulien at Llanbadarn Fawr has been the focal point of this study, as they were active during a time of Anglo-Norman intervention in their community that is reflected in the shifting script of their manuscripts and the apprehensive though proud tone of their compositions, which include the vitae of saints David and Padarn and the poetry of Ieuan and Rhygyfarch ap Sulien. My work provides a much-needed cohesive portrait of the multilingual medieval Welsh literary culture at the turn of the twelfth century. Questions of audience and authority come into play, particularly when considering the growing hybridity of learned communities during the Anglo-Norman infiltration of Wales. Manuscripts themselves are viewed as vehicles of identity, for the evolution of script and design offers clues as to the methods of compromise practiced by Welsh intellectuals. This compromise in the written word can be viewed as an embodiment of the Welsh desire and need to mediate fraught political boundaries, as they did using both the ‘nation’-defining Welsh language and the vehicular prestige language of Latin, resulting in an intertextual exploration of identity through the act of writing itself. Writing is a critical demonstration of Welsh authorship and agency in medieval Britain, and one that can be used to reflect upon notions of Welsh identity. / Celtic Languages and Literatures

This thesis describes a new line segmentation method that is optimized for medieval manuscripts. Using a thinned version of the binarized document image, the segmentation algorithm extracts two types of salient features from the handwritten patterns: nodes, whose distribution allows for the detection of line axes; segments, which are labeled according to the nodes they connect. This method obtains very good results on manuscripts that are usually considered hard to segment because of the numerous overlapping and touching lines. By contrast with many existing segmentation algorithms, this method does not rely on user-entered parameters and is not overly sensitive to the quality of the preprocessing treatments. Although more work is required to make it resistant to fluctuating lines, this line separation technique can already handle a large set of medieval documents and provides a useful input to a character segmentation program. / Line segmentation techniques in off-line handwriting recognition -- Line segmentation with the profile method -- Feature-based line segmentation -- Tests and conclusions. / Department of Computer Science

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences, 2007. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-240).

Thesis (doctorate)--Helsinki University, 2005. / Title from home page (viewed Aug. 20, 2008). Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print version.