Description:

This project started in October 2008 and aims at providing:

(1) an electronic edition of the moral treatise Leal Conselheiro by Portuguese King Duarte (1391-1438) which will include a critical edition, a documentary edition and a digitization of the single extant manuscript with the full text;

(2) an electronic edition of the partial versions delivered by the most relevant medieval and Renaissance witnesses, also including a critical establishment, a documentary edition and a digitized representation;

(3) the transcription of the literary, religious and historic sources Duarte used when writing Leal Conselheiro;

(4) the transcription of the medieval texts Leal Conselheiro exerted influence on.

The results of this project will be hosted free-access in the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections (http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/leal-conselheiro-electronic-edition).