Livros de Notas dos Tabeliães de Salvador
Item
Country
BR
Name of institution (English)
Public Archive of the State of Bahia
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
por
Contact information: postal address
Ladeira de Quintas 50, Baixa de Quintas 40320-140
Contact information: phone number
0055 713116-2165
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
apeb.fpc@fpc.ba.gov.br
Reference number
EAP703
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Book of deeds of Salvador notaries
Title (official language of the state)
Livros de Notas dos Tabeliães de Salvador
Language of title
por
Creator / accumulator
Notaries
Date(s)
1664/1911
Language(s)
eng
fra
lat
por
spa
Extent
1,329 storage units
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Livros de Notas (Books of deeds) comprise notarial deeds, including bills of sale (for plantations, land, houses, ships, goods, and others), wills and testaments, inheritance partition, power of attorney letters, marriage, dowry, labour and business contracts, children legitimisation papers, and slave manumission papers, among others. Numerous New Christians lived in Salvador and were involved in commercial activities and manufacturing. Therefore, the notarial deeds that compose this collection are rich in information regarding New Christians in Brazil, particularly in Bahia. Throughout the Livros de Notas, there is scattered information regarding their activities. Recently, they were digitised and published online on the British Library website following the Endangered Archives Programme.
Archival history
The Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (Public Archive of the State of Bahia) is considered the second most important public state archive in Brazil. It holds an invaluable archival collection, produced and accumulated over 214 years, from 1549 to 1763, during which the city of Salvador was the seat of the colonial government in Brazil.
As an archive, it was formally constituted by an Act of the Governor of the State of Bahia, Manoel Victorino Pereira, on January 16, 1890, two months after the foundation of the Republican regime in Brazil. From then on, the archive became the guardian of Bahia's documentary heritage.
In 2002, the Public Archive was extinguished and became part of the Diretoria de Arquivos da Fundação Pedro Calmon (Directorate of Archives of the Pedro Calmon Foundation).
As an archive, it was formally constituted by an Act of the Governor of the State of Bahia, Manoel Victorino Pereira, on January 16, 1890, two months after the foundation of the Republican regime in Brazil. From then on, the archive became the guardian of Bahia's documentary heritage.
In 2002, the Public Archive was extinguished and became part of the Diretoria de Arquivos da Fundação Pedro Calmon (Directorate of Archives of the Pedro Calmon Foundation).
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System of arrangement
The collection is divided by notaries. However, the description does not refer to the notary that owned and produced the different books. Some books are divided by types of documents. Deeds were registered chronologically.
Access, restrictions
The collection was fully digitised under the Endangered Archives Programme:
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Author of the description
Kevin Soares, 2023
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