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Country
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PT
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Name of institution (English)
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Bragança 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 de São Francisco 63, 5300-050 Bragança
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Contact information: phone number
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00351 273001300
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Contact information: email
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mail.adbgc@adbgc.dglab.gov.pt
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Reference number
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Doc. [number] P
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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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Parchments Collection
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Title (official language of the state)
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Coleção de Pergaminhos
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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 Bragança
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Date note
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10th century/16th century
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Language(s)
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lat
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por
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Extent
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400 documents
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Physical condition
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Satisfactory
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Scope and content
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The Coleção de Pergaminhos gathers the oldest documentation of the Arquivo Distrital de Bragança. The collection is composed of documents of several provenances, such as monasteries, city councils, the Crown, the Holy See, etc., and includes diverse typologies of documents, such as letters, licenses, deeds, sentences, etc. It also comprises some records related to Jewish communities in Bragança:
Doc. 015 P: King Afonso IV settles regulations on how the Jews should provide loans to the residents of Bragança and its outskirts. May 26, 1330.
Doc. 023 P: Notary João de Pedroso interrupted the Sabbath services in the Jewish "comuna" (commune) of Bragança to announce that the king had appointed him to become the clerk of the affairs between Jews and Christians. October 10, 1344.
140 documents of this collection were transcribed and published by Paula Pinto da Costa (2004).
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Archival history
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The collection was gathered according to the material of the documents (parchments) and includes documents from several provenances that had been incorporated in the Arquivo Distrital de Bragança over its history. In the first years of the present century, a project funded by the Programa Operacional de Cultura (Operational Program of Culture) promoted the digitalization, transcription, and description of part of the collection. The results were published in 2004 in CD-Rom.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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On November 29, 1916, President Bernardino Machado decreed the creation of the Biblioteca Pública (Public Library) and of the Arquivo Distrital (District Archive) of Bragança. The objective was to gather important collections of manuscripts and printing books that existed in Trás-os-Montes.
A new decree on May 22, 1965, merged the Public Library and the District Archive. However, the Museu Abade Baçal continued to hold archival collections until the 1980s. In 1985, the Public Library and District Archive opened to the public in the Convent of São Francisco. However, the library and archive had to be transferred to a building in the former Quinta da Trajinha, as the Convent had to undergo construction works. They remained there for 12 years. It was only in 1999 that the Arquivo Distrital returned to the renovated Convent of São Francisco.
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(source: Arquivo Distrital de Bragança website)
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Access, restrictions
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The original documents whose digital copy and transcription were published in the CD-Rom mentioned above are not available for consultation, as well as the rest of the collection, since it has not been subject to archival processing and cataloguing yet.
