USO DE ABREVIATURAS EM UM LIVRO DE ASSENTOS DE CASAMENTOS DO SÉCULO XVIII DO SERTÃO DE BAIXO DO RIO SÃO FRANCISCO

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The present study addresses the use of abbreviations in Book n.º 1 of the wedding seats in the Freguesia de Santo Antônio do Urubu de baixo do Rio São Francisco (1719-1753), written by eight different scriptors throughout the studied time frame. This work will present a brief codicological description, as well as a survey of the frequency of the use of abbreviations, in order to reveal the trends used at the time the manuscript was produced, as well as the peculiarities of each scriptor. Methodologically, to undertake this study, we carried out (i) exploration of the particularities of the material of document support; (ii) reading and transcribing from the fac-similar edition; (iii) systematization of the number of occurrences and comparison of frequencies according to the abbreviation classification system with the aid of the computational tool applied to the AntConc Terminology (2011) and (iv) philological-paleographic reflection of the abbreviations and the abbreviation signs. Through the theoretical framework, we seek to follow the philological and paleographic paths, using the works of Bluteau (1728), Vieira (1871), Spina (1977), Acioli (1994), Núñez Contreras (1994), Cambraia (2005), Berwanger and Leal (2008) and Flexor (2008). The results showed that the use of abbreviations, in the document analyzed, followed the general trends of the time, transmitted by the documentary tradition, although the Constituições Primeiras do Arcebispado da Bahia (1719) stated that parish records should be written out in full to avoid mistakes and reading difficulties.