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Country
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PT
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Name of institution (English)
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Braga District Archive
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Language of name of institution
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por
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Contact information: postal address
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Rua do Abade da Loureira, 4700-356 Braga
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Contact information: phone number
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00351 253601082 (general)
00351 253601080 (research and reproduction services)
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Contact information: email
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sec@adb.uminho.pt (general)
adb@adb.uminho.pt (research and reproduction services)
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Reference number
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PT/ADB/COL/CC
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (English)
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Chronological Collection
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Title (official language of the state)
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Coleção Cronológica
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Language of title
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por
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Creator / accumulator
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Arquivo Distrital de Braga
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Date(s)
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911/1881
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Language(s)
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por
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Extent
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3,379 documents
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Physical condition
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Good
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Scope and content
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The Colecção Cronológica comprises Braga Archdiocesan Mitra's registry documents, such as bulls, provisions, licences, sentences, contracts, deeds, city charters, emphyteusis contracts, and royal orders related to the archbishopric of Braga. It also contains documents from the Nossa Senhora da Glória Chapter related to estates donated to this chapter and other particular affairs concerning the its founder.
Some Jewish-related documents can be found in this collection, including the following:
Pasta (folder) 6, doc. 239: Abraão Tonni, a Jew from Lisbon, had received from D. Maria, widow of Paio Pires Sardo, a debt payment. To pay him, the widow had to buy a part of a farm in Azóia (near Lisbon). March 3, 1308.
Pasta 7, doc. 297: Another reference to Abraão Tonni, who won a case against Gonçalo Pereira, a confrère of São Marcos hospital, related to debt payments. January 4, 1315.
Pasta 11, doc. 440: Josef Abelhami, a Jew from Porto de Mós, was notified by the "ouvidor" (local judge) to present proof of a debt contracted by D. João Martins de Soalhães, the Archbishop of Braga. Abelhami had pledged and given orders to sell some of the archbishop's assets to pay the debt. June 2, 1326.
Pasta 14, doc. 537 A to D: List of the debts to be paid to D. Gonçalo Pereira, the Archbishop of Braga, in the dioceses of Lisbon and Santarém. A Jew named Leão Judeu from Porto de Mós is mentioned among the debtors. He owed 8 pounds and a half to the archbishop in rent for the house where he lived. May of 1332.
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Archival history
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The Coleção Cronológica was composed by Alberto Feio, director of the Arquivo Distrital de Braga, in the 1920s after he discovered a cabinet in the Nossa Senhora da Glória chapter with about 900 documents, some of them medieval parchments. These documents were in poor condition, and 200 of them were completely unrecoverable. Feio transferred the saved records to the Biblioteca Pública (Public Library) of Braga and, later, gathered other related documents from the Archdiocesan Mitra registry, which had been nationalised after the law of separation of State and Church in 1911. Feio organised the collection in chronological order and, for this reason, named it "Colecção Cronológica" (Chronological Collection).
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Administrative / Biographical history
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The Arquivo Distrital de Braga (Braga District Archive) was founded on August 11, 1917. It initially integrated several fonds, among them those belonging to religious orders and ecclesiastical institutions whose assets were nationalised after the implantation of the Republic in Portugal and the law of separation of State and Church in 1911.
At first, the Arquivo Distrital de Braga's collections were dispersed among three buildings with poor conservation conditions. In 1934, the archive was transferred to the former Paço do Arcebispo (Archbishop Palace).
In 1976, both the Arquivo Distrital and the Biblioteca Pública (Public Library) of Braga were incorporated in the Universidade do Minho (University of Minho). At present, the archive is located in a building belonging to the University of Minho that was renovated and inaugurated in 2017.
The Arquivo Distrital de Braga is the second biggest district archive in Portugal and owns the most important Portuguese ecclesiastical collection: the Cartório do Cabido de Braga.
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System of arrangement
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Records arranged chronologically.
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2021
