O arquétipo da traduçâo portuguesa da Estoire del Saint Graal à luz de um testemunho recente

Abstract

[Abstract] The fragment of Estória do Santo Graal (mistakenly referred to as Livro de José de Arimateia), recently discovered in Arquivo Distrital do Porto testifies, together with the Livro de Merlin and the Livro de Tristan fragments, the translation process of the Arthurian cycle in prose from French into Galician-Portuguese in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries. In this study, we shall start by examining the nature of the relation between this fragment and the Portuguese testimony known from Torre do Tombo; secondly, we shall examine the construction of the version (versions) of the French romance from which the Portuguese testimonies descend and, finally, the place of the version (versions) in the framework of the well-known stemma codicum panorama of Estoire del Saint Graal. We shall proceed with a systematic colation of Portuguese and French testimonies.