Abstract

VEGA, Fabián R.. The Possible Authorship of an Anonymous Manuscript between One and Multiple (Jesuit Guarani Missions, 17th Century). Folia [online]. 2019, n.34, pp.39-63. ISSN 0325-8238.  http://dx.doi.org/10.30972/fhn.0343603.

This article inquires into the authorship of the manuscript Phrases Selectas, a Spanish-Guarani dictionary composed in the Jesuit-Guarani missions at the end of the 17th century. We compare the information provided by the manuscript about its context of enunciation with the data related to the missionaries of the Paraguay included in the catalogues of the Society of Jesus. In this manner, we gather the evidence that suggests that the "main author" of the manuscript is the Italian Jesuit José Coco. Moreover, we highlight the need to build an interpretative framework of multiple and complex authorship for this and other manuscripts in Guarani language from the Jesuit Paraguay. Based on these two assertions, we propose that the Jesuit-Guarani textual production was composed by a broader group of linguistic specialists than previously believed and not just by learned individuals.

Keywords : Jesuit Missions; Guarani Language; Manuscripts; Authorship.

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