A imprensa salmantina nos inícios de quinhentos: a edição da obra humanista de Aires Barbosa, o Mestre Gregoud

摘要

Known by the famous epithet of Greek Master, for having been the first to teach the languageudof Homer in a university in the Iberian Peninsula, the Portuguese humanist Aires Barbosa (ca. 1470-1540)udstands out as a teacher of Latin and Greek at the University of Salamanca in the first quarter of theudsixteenth century. Between 1511 and 1517, alongside his teaching activities, he published four booklets inudLatin designed to clarify his disciples about the subjects he taught, a collection of epigrams and anudextensive volume entitled Commentary of Arator's “Historia apostolica” (1516), the embodiment of theudlessons given by Barbosa in the regency of the chair of Grammar, and which constitutes his masterpiece.udThe original edition of this works present several reasons of interest and no less difficulties for those whoudventure to read and transcribe the barbosian text, and reflect the advances and limitations of the Press inudthe city of Tormes in the early sixteenth century. The aim of this paper is to describe and explain severaludaspects that stand out in the reading of the original text, such as excessive compression of the text andudthe lack of illustrations, even when they were initially planned; the existence of errors assignable to eitherudthe author or to the carelessness of the printer; the constant use of abbreviations, some of them not filedudin dictionaries by the experts; or the transcription of words and texts in Hellenic language into Latinudcharacters.