Resumo:

In the context of Portuguese philological studies, researchers have looked tirelessly at different manuscripts to try and understand all the implications of their message and production. In this process, the text, as a historical document, carries certain aspects that add meaning and, somehow, influence the way in which it will be read and studied. Its materiality is as fundamental as the content and the context of its production. Philology is clearly defined in this way by reuniting both material and intimate realities, as defended by the late professor Antonio Candido: the first characterized by its appearance, role, calligraphy, type, state of the text and its history (by whom, where, when, under what conditions) and the second, by its intimate tangibility and true purpose; its nature, meaning, artistic reach, and in a way its soul.