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Lot 32:
PORTVGALIAE Monumenta Historica. A saeculo octavo post christvm vsqve ad qvintvmdecimvm Ivssv Academiae Scientiarvm Olisiponensis Edita. Olisipone: Typis Academicis, 1856.
21 v.; 420 mm.
A very important publication, the only one of its kind in Portugal, started by Alexandre Herculano who directed the publication until his death. In the extensive news that Brito Aranha left us, we can read the text of the entire project. Herculano proposed that "a collection of documents relating to the social and political history of our country, from the 8th century to the end of the 15th century" be published, divided into three large divisions:
1. Narrative Monuments, which would include all types of historical narratives, short and longer chronicles, obituaries, biographies, etc.;
2. Law, divided into three sections:
2.1. Laws and Civil Customary Law;
2.2. Local Laws and Customary Law, including municipal charters, municipal customs or regulations, etc.;
2.3. Foreign laws and jurisprudence adopted as subsidiary law.
3. Diplomas and Public Acts
3.1. Public Acts belonging to the Government of the Kingdom;
3.2. Diplomas relating to Portugal’s foreign relations;
3.3. Public Acts and Royal Diplomas relating to corporations or individuals: donations and other contracts, sentences, privileges, etc.;
3.4. Private acts and monuments.
For this purpose, Herculano and other academics visited the Torre do Tombo Archive and other archives throughout the country and even abroad, gathering together a huge quantity of extremely important contemporary documents for the History of Portugal.
After Herculano’s death, the publication was directed by João Pedro da Costa, his disciple, who accompanied him on many trips and paleographic transcription work, being interrupted after his death in 1898, when the last series dedicated to the Inquiries was published. The last three fascicles corresponding to this section were published in 1911, 1936 and, finally, in 1961, the first being directed by Braamcamp Freire, the second by António Baião and the third by PM Laranjo Coelho.
Thus, the publication ended up being composed as follows:
I. Scriptores, 3 issues, 1856-1861;
II. Laws and Customs, 7 issues, 1856-1873;
III. Diplomat and Chartists, 4 issues, 1868-1873;
IV. Inquisitiones, 9th issue. in 6 v., 1888-1977.
Very rare when complete, important and valuable.
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