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The Torre do Tombo National Archive (Portuguese: Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo), commonly known simply as the Torre do Tombo ([ˈtoʁɨ ðu ˈtõbu]; literally "Tower of the Tome") is the national archive of Portugal, located in Lisbon. Established in 1378, it is one of the oldest archival institutions in the world.
The Livro da Noa is a medieval codex that originated in the monastery of Santa Cruz de Coimbra and is now preserved in the Torre do Tombo National Arquive. [1] The present volume results from the separate binding, in the 17th century , of the last five quires of a psalter containing the prayers of the Nones , from which it took its name.
Arquivo Distrital da Guarda; Arquivo Distrital de Leiria; Arquivo Distrital de Lisboa (abolished in 2012; materials transferred to the Torre do Tombo National Archive) [1] [2] Arquivo Distrital de Portalegre; Arquivo Distrital do Porto (est. 1931) [3] Arquivo Distrital de Santarém; Arquivo Distrital de Setúbal ; Arquivo Distrital de Viana do ...
He describes in a diary from the first journey from Portugal to Brazil and their arrival in this country. [1] This letter is considered to be the first document of Brazilian history as much as its first literary text. [2] The original of this 27-page document can be found in the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon.
The Livro do Armeiro-Mor contains 161 folios of parchment, with dimensions of 403 x 315 mm, and is written in Portuguese. At the end of the monarchy, it belonged to the private library of King King Carlos. Today it is preserved in the national archive of the Torre do Tombo Archive (Royal House reference, Chancellery of Nobility, book 19).
In 2007, the Portuguese Government initiated a project to make available online by 2010 a significant part of the archives of the Portuguese Inquisition (more than 35,000 processes) currently deposited in the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, the Portuguese National Archives. [102]
Pero de Ataíde or Pedro d'Ataíde [a] (d'Atayde, da Thayde), nicknamed O Inferno (Hell), "for the damage he did to the Moors in Africa", [2] (c. 1450 – February/March, 1504, Mozambique Island) was a Portuguese sea captain in the Indian Ocean active in the early 1500s.
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