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Country
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PT
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Name of institution (English)
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National Museum of Archaeology
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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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Edifício dos Jerónimos, Praça do Império, 1400-206 Lisbon
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Contact information: phone number
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00351 213620000
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Contact information: email
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geral@mnarqueologia.dgpc.pt
cristinacoito@mnarqueologia.dgpc.pt (librarian)
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Reference number
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Ms/P/GUIM
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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 of Guimarães
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Title (official language of the state)
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Pergaminhos de Guimarães
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Language of title
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por
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Creator / accumulator
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Museu Nacional de Arqueologia
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Date(s)
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1300/1620
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Language(s)
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por
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Extent
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133 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 Pergaminhos de Guimarães collection includes about 100 parchments containing sale, leasing and emphyteusis contracts related to a family of merchants from Guimarães. The oldest document dates from 1314. A few documents contain references to Jews living in the city in the 15th century. Two examples are the following:
Ms/P/GUIM, cx. 7, nº 258: Letter of "emprazamento" (emphyteusis) of houses in the "judiaria" (Jewish quarter) of Guimarães by Gil Lourenço and his wife Joana Gonçalves to Salomão Carido, a Jewish weaver. Guimarães, 1412.
Ms/P/GUIM, cx. 7, nº 293: Letter of "emprazamento" of houses in the Jewish quarter by Gil Lourenço from Miranda and his wife Isabel Vasques to a Jewish couple, Musse Benadeu and Vyllida. Guimarães, 1463.
Other documents contain information on properties located in the judiaria of Guimarães: Ms/P/GUIM, cx. 7, nº 237, 244, 271, 275 and 281.
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Archival history
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The parchments of Guimarães were acquired for the Museu Nacional da Arqueologia by José Leite de Vasconcelos (1858-1941), its founder and first director.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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The Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (MNA) was founded in December 1893, following a proposal by José Leite de Vasconcelos (1858-1941), the Portuguese linguist, philologist, ethnographer, and archaeologist who became its first director. Initially named "Museu da Etnologia" (Museum of Ethnology), Leite de Vasconcelos conceived it to become a "Museu do Homem Português" (Museum of the Portuguese Person), with the aim of promoting the history of the Portuguese people and territory.
Since 1895, the museum has published the "O Arqueólogo Português", a journal of reference in the field of archaeology in Portugal. In its first years, the museum was installed in the building of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (Lisbon Academy of Sciences). However, in the early 20th century, it was transferred to the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Jerónimos Monastery), where it remains today.
The museum's name changed to Museu Nacional de Arqueologia e Etnologia (National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology) in 1945, and Museu Nacional de Arqueologia Dr Leite de Vasconcelos, in tribute to its founder, in 1989. Currently, it is simply known as Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (MNA).
The Historical Archive of the MNA gathers several collections, including those of the archaeologist Estácio da Veiga (1828-1891), acquired from his widow in 1897, and Leite de Vasconcelos' personal collection bequeathed in his will in 1941. The collection grew over the decades through acquisitions and donations by individual and institutional archives.
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System of arrangement
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Records are arranged chronologically.
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Access, restrictions
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Access to the collection requires a prior request addressed by email to the library (biblioteca@mnarqueologia.dgpc.pt) or the chief librarian (cristinacoito@mnarqueologia.dgpc.pt).
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2021
