O Tempo e suas partes: anotações sobre o léxico patente no primeiro livro do reportório de André de Avelar (1594)

Abstract

The astronomical phenomenon and its influence have fascinated humankind since antiquity. There was, in Iberian Peninsula, a growing interest about stars movement during the 13th Century in Alfonso X of Castile reign and he was known as the Wise King or Astrologer King, who did astronomic works and judicial works like the Siete Partidas. During that period numerous philosophic and astronomic texts from Greece and Orient were translated in that was known as Toledo School of Translators. In the 15th Century some themes like this was subject of many print out, including the first reportorios about time, productions that attended an expressive demand about astronomical and astrological texts that approaches, beyond others subjects, the division of time. About writing of this work was selected, among the remaining reportórios, the 3rd edition of Chronographia or Reportório dos Tempos by André Avelar, published in 1594, containing six books, which philological notes and lexicon about the time were taken from the 1st book which has 66 chapters in total. Besides the selected corpus there are some biographical information about Avelar’s life.