How authorship is made and named: a meta-aggregator / Arquivo Pessoa
Arquivo Pessoa
direct caseHeteronymy, persona and pseudonymous authorshipactive
The archive's reading. The archive reads Arquivo Pessoa as a direct case of a differentiated authorial corpus held in an edition: the works stay under the names they bear, the orthonym is one name among 39, joint attributions are kept as joint and four of the names each receive a voice of their own, while the whole stays answerable to one name, 'Obra de Fernando Pessoa', the arrangement #940 calls attributable through the civil bearer without being reducible to that bearer. The saved index does not mark which names are heteronyms and which pseudonyms, and the textual relations among the names are unread.
| Relation to this census | direct case |
|---|---|
| Record type | collection |
| The question it answers | authorial function across names: under which of the 39 indexed names of Pessoa a published text stands, joint attributions included |
| Kind | online edition of Fernando Pessoa's published work (Obra Édita), with a facsimile section and information pages; its home page line: 'Expedições livres para amantes e estudiosos' |
| Operator | Obra Aberta CRL (edition, 2008); conception and direction by Leonor Areal; partners the Instituto de Estudos sobre o Modernismo (FCSH, UNL, Lisboa) and Assírio&Alvim; development by José Cerqueira Esteves / Arte Numérica and João Miguel Neves / Intraneia |
| Evidence | primary text; facsimile; audio recording |
| Unit of record | a text of the published work, reached through an author page: the site indexes 39 names, the orthonym, pseudonyms and heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa, joint attributions among them |
| What it records | the published work (obra édita) of Fernando Pessoa, under each name he wrote as; the original edition is Texto Editora and Casa Fernando Pessoa, 1997 |
| Whose authorship it keeps | Fernando Pessoa's authorship, divided among the names he wrote under |
| Under what name | under the name the text bears: the author index is headed 'Ortónimo, pseudónimos e heterónimos de Fernando Pessoa' and lists 39 names (Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, Bernardo Soares, Alexander Search, Barão de Teive and the orthonym Fernando Pessoa among them), with joint attributions kept as joint ('Álvaro de Campos e Ricardo Reis', 'A. L. Caeiro e J. Caeiro', 'Wardour + Pessoa'); the saved index does not mark which name is a pseudonym and which a heteronym; the audio readings give a separate reader to each of Ricardo Reis, Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos and Fernando Pessoa |
| Who holds it | Obra Aberta CRL, which edits the site (2008) from the 1997 edition of Texto Editora and Casa Fernando Pessoa, with funding from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, the CCDR Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, the Fundação Luso-Brasileira and the Direcção-Geral do Livro e das Bibliotecas; terms of use not stated in the saved sources |
| Authorial function and responsibility | divided among the names the texts bear: the index heads them 'Ortónimo, pseudónimos e heterónimos de Fernando Pessoa' and keeps joint attributions as joint ('Álvaro de Campos e Ricardo Reis', 'Wardour + Pessoa'); the audio gives Reis, Caeiro, Campos and the orthonym each a reader; the whole is named 'Obra de Fernando Pessoa'; responsibility for the edition is credited by role (conception and direction, edition, text revision, development, audio recording) |
| Method | digital edition of a print edition (1997), with text revision by a named team of fifteen revisers, transcription norms (a page unread here), facsimiles, recorded readings of poems and an iconographic illustration (Labirinto) |
| Coverage | geography: Portugal (Lisbon editors, partners and funders); the languages of the texts are not stated in the saved pages; period: Pessoa's published work; the edition 1997 (print) and 2008 (online) |
| Count | value: 39 author names in the index; as_of: 2026-11-01 (index read) |
| Holdings | Pessoa's published work (Obra Édita); a facsimile section; an author index of 39 names: orthonym, pseudonyms and heteronyms; recorded readings of poems by four readers, one for each of Ricardo Reis, Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos and Fernando Pessoa; information pages: aims and readers, corpus, transcription norms, the Labirinto, a teaching manual, a reference bibliography |
| Stated limits | the saved pages state no limits of their own; the pages on the corpus and transcription norms that would state them were not saved |
| Data access | free public website: Obra Édita, Facsimile and Info sections |
| Licence | not stated in the saved sources |
| Lifecycle | state: active; detail: the site answered on 2026-11-01 (home, technical sheet and author index read); edition 2008, from a 1997 print edition; no later update date in the saved pages |
| Version and time | original_edition: 1997; online_edition: 2008; read: 2026-11-01 |
| Founded | 2008 (online edition, Obra Aberta CRL); original edition 1997 |
What its record can settle
- under which of Pessoa's names a published text is held
- which names Pessoa wrote under, as the edition indexes them, joint attributions included
- who made the edition and from which print edition
What it cannot settle
- which names the edition counts as heteronyms and which as pseudonyms (the saved index lists them together)
- Pessoa's unpublished papers (the site is the published work, Obra Édita)
- the textual basis of a given text (the transcription norms were not read)
Kept apart
- NOT Pessoa's estate or papers: it edits the published work (Obra Édita)
- NOT a reduction of the names to Fernando Pessoa: the index keeps 39 names, joint ones among them
- NOT a classification of each name: the saved index does not mark pseudonym or heteronym
- NOT pessoadigital.pt, a separate resource in this census
Evidence
- self_description (the resource's own statement):
Obra de Fernando Pessoa Expedições livres para amantes e estudiosos
http://arquivopessoa.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 7b6d598dd77a3406… - sections (the resource's own statement):
OBRA ÉDITA · FACSIMILE · INFO
http://arquivopessoa.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 7b6d598dd77a3406… - authors_heading (the resource's own statement):
Ortónimo, pseudónimos e heterónimos de Fernando Pessoa
http://arquivopessoa.net/autores · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 32e73f337b4601bb… - authors_first (the resource's own statement):
A. L. Caeiro e J. Caeiro Adolph Moscow Alberto Caeiro Alexander Search António Mora
http://arquivopessoa.net/autores · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 32e73f337b4601bb… - authors_soares (the resource's own statement):
Barão de Teive Bernardo Soares
http://arquivopessoa.net/autores · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 32e73f337b4601bb… - authors_reis (the resource's own statement):
Raphael Baldaya Ricardo Reis Thomas Crosse
http://arquivopessoa.net/autores · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 32e73f337b4601bb… - authors_joint (the resource's own statement):
Wardour Wardour + Pessoa Álvaro de Campos Álvaro de Campos e Ricardo Reis Íbis
http://arquivopessoa.net/autores · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 32e73f337b4601bb… - direction (the resource's own statement):
Concepção e direcção: Leonor Areal
http://arquivopessoa.net/info/ficha · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 0ee561fdf4c22e96… - edition (the resource's own statement):
Edição: Obra Aberta CRL, 2008
http://arquivopessoa.net/info/ficha · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 0ee561fdf4c22e96… - partners (the resource's own statement):
Parcerias: Instituto de Estudos sobre o Modernismo (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, UNL, Lisboa) Assírio&Alvim
http://arquivopessoa.net/info/ficha · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 0ee561fdf4c22e96… - development (the resource's own statement):
Desenvolvimento: José Cerqueira Esteves / Arte Numérica e João Miguel Neves / Intraneia
http://arquivopessoa.net/info/ficha · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 0ee561fdf4c22e96… - funding (the resource's own statement):
Apoio financeiro Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento da Região de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo Fundação Luso-Brasileira Direcção-Geral do Livro e das Bibliotecas (MC)
http://arquivopessoa.net/info/ficha · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 0ee561fdf4c22e96… - original_edition (the resource's own statement):
Edição original: Texto Editora e Casa Fernando Pessoa, 1997
http://arquivopessoa.net/info/ficha · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 0ee561fdf4c22e96… - revision (the resource's own statement):
Revisão de textos: Catarina Gomes, Conceição Saraiva
http://arquivopessoa.net/info/ficha · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 0ee561fdf4c22e96… - readings (the resource's own statement):
Leitura de poemas: Alberto Pimenta (Ricardo Reis) José Abreu (Alberto Caeiro) José Lopes (Álvaro de Campos) Teresa Faria (Fernando Pessoa)
http://arquivopessoa.net/info/ficha · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 0ee561fdf4c22e96… - audio (the resource's own statement):
Gravação audio: Amândio Bastos / Nuvem Eléctrica
http://arquivopessoa.net/info/ficha · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 0ee561fdf4c22e96… - labirinto (the resource's own statement):
Ilustração iconográfica (Labirinto)
http://arquivopessoa.net/info/ficha · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 0ee561fdf4c22e96… - info_pages (the resource's own statement):
Objectivos e destinatários Fernando Pessoa porquê? Corpus textual Normas de transcrição Sobre o Labirinto Manual de utilização pedagógica Bibliografia geral de referência
http://arquivopessoa.net/info/ficha · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 0ee561fdf4c22e96…
Unchecked
the Portuguese Wikipedia page (arquivo-pessoa--wikipedia): http 404, no article exists under that title; unread and unquoted; the info pages on aims, corpus, transcription norms, the Labirinto and the teaching manual (linked from the technical sheet, not saved); any single text page, the facsimile section and the audio files; the site's terms of use; the count of 39 names is taken from the saved index by counting its entries; the site states no total
Cite: Lee Sharks, ed. "Arquivo Pessoa." How authorship is made and named: a meta-aggregator, leesharks.com, compiled 2026-11-01. https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/arquivo-pessoa