liber novvs de anima rationali ramon llull edición crítica y estudio

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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
above all the linguistic analysis of the Latin tradition has confirmed the
hypothesis of an original Catalan version which is the model of the Latin
translation. Thanks to a quite copious number of testimonies – both
manuscripts and editions – we could identify different phases of correction
in the transmission of the LNAR, which were carried out with the help of
the original Catalan text or by means of a comparison between manuscripts.
The Latin translation was most probably not prepared by Llull himself but
rather by someone else (perhaps an Italian translator); otherwise it seems
difficult to explain the large number of translation mistakes. These
consideration have been key to the elaboration of the edition because they
have influenced the edition criteria, in the sense that we had to take into
account the Catalan text in order to reconstruct a critical Latin text which
comes as close as possible to the work as it was conceived by its author.
Altogether, our research on its context of composition and transmission as
well as the internal analysis of the LNAR has helped us to elaborate its
critical edition – presented here for the first time –, which claims to be a
modest contribution to the current state of Lullian studies.