Torre do Tombo National Archive

The Torre do Tombo, the Portuguese National Archives and one of the oldest continuously existing institutions in Portugal.

History

At least since 1378 were the most important documents of the Portuguese royal family in the Torre do Tombo, the main tower of the Castelo de São Jorge housed. Significant archivists this time were Fernão Lopes and Damiao de Gois.

The tower was destroyed in the 1755 earthquake of Lisbon. However, as no fire had broken out, most documents could be saved. 1757 they found in the Monastery of São Bento in Porto a new home.

As part of the Liberal Revolution, the relationships, the monasteries were in the 1820s terminated with the Holy See, dissolved and confiscated the monastery archives. The records were stored there, unless they were lost at this time, transferred to Lisbon, thereby reducing the amount of archive rose drastically. 1823 a new User Procedure was adopted for the archive, in which the institution was named after the medieval Torre do Tombo. By a law of 1911, she was named National Arquivo da Torre do Tombo, the documents were, however, continue to be distributed to different locations in Lisbon.

Since 1991, the Torre do Tombo is located in a modern building on the campus of the University of Lisbon. It has an area of ​​54,900 square meters with about three parts of the building. In one there is the actual archive, in a second find cultural activities take place, and a third housing the local administration. Between 1997 and 2006, the institution was placed under the Ministry of Culture, Instituto dos Arquivos was officially Nacionais / Torre do Tombo ( IANTT ) and had, besides the actual archive function also supervises the Portuguese district archives. With the Act of 27 October 2006 the Torre do Tombo gained considerable autonomy, as well as the Portuguese Centre for Photography was incorporated.

The oldest documents of Torre do Tombo, starting with a document from the year 882, dating back to Moorish times. The Torre do Tombo has an extensive collection of medieval documents. Among the more than four hundred papal documents of the archive is also the Papal Bull Manifestis probatum of 23 May 1179 in Pope Alexander III. Portugal's independence was confirmed. In the possession of the archive is the oldest Portuguese-language document, the testament of Alfonso II from the early 13th century. In addition, there store over 36,000 records of the Inquisition.

Publication on the history of Oman

From the archive materials in 7680 page facsimile was published in 2012. The project was funded by the Sultanate of Oman. A translation of the Portuguese-speaking documents into English and Arabic is provided. Co-editor of the Omani Minister of Religious Affairs Abdul Rahman Al- Salimi.

  • Abdul Rahman Al Salimi and Michael Jansen: Portugal in the Sea of Oman. Religion and Politics, Research on Documents; 16 volumes in 3 slipcases. Publisher Philip of Saverne, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8053-4374-9.

Swell

  • Gerhard Sailer: papal documents in Portugal from 1198-1304; A contribution to Censimento. Dissertation University of Vienna, 2008 (PDF file, 1.83 MB )
  • Http://www.lissabonline.de/kultur_in_lissabon/Arquivo_Nacional_da_Torre_do_Tombo
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