Monastery of Nossa Senhora da Rosa of Caparica

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo

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Scope and content:: The Mosteiro de Nossa Senhora da Rosa fonds contains documentation produced by or related to this monastery in Caparica, near Lisbon. It includes emphyteusis contracts, deeds of sale, donations and exchanges of estates, royal letters, certificates, nominations, inventories, licences, sentences, wills, appeals, and various other types of documents related to the administration and daily life of the monastery and its assets.

Regarding Jewish-related material, it contains a deed of sale of a farm with a house, a vineyard, a grove and a winepress located near Caparica, made by Pero Vaz da Veiga to Guedelha Gualite, a Jewish merchant of Lisbon, and his wife Ester on August 4, 1474 (PT/TT/MNSRC/M002/000005). A digital copy of this record is available on the Torre do Tombo online database.

Archival history:: After the closure of the Convento do Santíssimo Sacramento, the assets of the former Mosteiro de Nossa Senhora da Rosa were delivered to the Próprios da Fazenda Nacional (National Assets), and its documents were stored in the registry of the Repartição de Fazenda do Distrito de Lisboa (Department of the Estate of the District of Lisbon). In 1883, they were transferred to the National Archive of Torre do Tombo.

In the late 1990s, the arrangement of the ecclesiastical records preserved in the Torre do Tombo, including documents from the Mosteiro de Nossa Senhora da Rosa, was changed: organisation by religious order, instead of place name, was adopted.

In 2001, the Mosteiro de Nossa Senhora da Rosa de Caparica fonds was reorganised. The original numbering of the documents was recovered, and they were organised and ordered according to the primary arrangement. The documents listed in the inventory of the archive that was made at the moment of its incorporation into the Torre do Tombo, in 1883, (C 354) were gathered in the "maços de pergaminhos" (bundles of parchments) 1 to 3, and in the "maços de papéis" (bundles of papers) 1 and 2. The records that were not included in this inventory were gathered in the bundles of papers 3, 4, 12, 13 and 15. Therefore, the fonds is composed of 10 bundles, whose numbering is not sequential.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Mosteiro de Nossa Senhora da Rosa de Caparica was founded around the end of the 14th century or the beginning of the following century. It housed the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit. According to a record of the time, the hermit Mendo Gomes de Seabra carried out a reform of the monastery in 1445. Then it was put under the custody of another monastery of the same order in Serra de Ossa, in Alentejo. In the early 16th century, it was named Santa Maria da Rosa. In 1645, properties and goods of the closed Monastery of Junqueira were transferred to the Monastery of Santa Maria da Rosa.

The monastery was closed at the beginning of the 19th century, as determined by the Order of Saint Paul. Its proprieties and incomes were transferred to the Convent of Santíssimo Sacramento in Lisbon. Later on, its goods were incorporated into the Próprios da Fazenda Nacional (National Assets). The building served as a farming villa, named Quinta da Rosa, for the rest of the century. The remains of the old building disappeared around the early 20th century.

Subject terms:: Agriculture; Christianity; Christianity--Churches (institution); Financial matters; Land; Real estate; Trade and commerce

System of arrangement:: This fonds is organised in 8 books and 10 bundles. Three of these bundles comprise parchments and seven contain paper documents. The bundles of papers are numbered from 1 to 4 and 12 to 15.

Access, restrictions:: No restrictions, except for records in poor condition or available in digital format.

Finding aids:: Unpublished finding aids available in the archive:

"Relação de documentos vindos da Direcção-Geral dos Próprios Nacionais, em 14 de Maio de 1894" (Inventory of documents that came from the Direcção-Geral dos Próprios Nacionais on May 14, 1894). Topographical organisation: L. (C 279), fols. 25, 32, 35.

"Relação dos documentos pertencentes ao extinto Convento do Santíssimo Sacramento de religiosos paulistas de Lisboa que, em virtude da Portaria do Ministério da Fazenda, de 20 de Março de 1865, foram transferidos do cartório da Repartição de Fazenda do Distrito de Lisboa, para o Arquivo da Torre do Tombo, em 9 de Maio de 1883" (Inventory of documents belonging to the closed Convent of the Santíssimo Sacramento of St Paul clerics in Lisbon that, after the decree of the Ministry of Finances on March 20, 1865, were transferred from the registry of the Finance Department of the District of Lisbon to the Archive of Torre do Tombo on May 9, 1883.). (C 354).

"Tabela de equivalência dos documentos dos maços do Convento de Nossa Senhora da Rosa da Caparica" (Table of equivalence of the documents from the bundles of the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Rosa of Caparica). (L 657).

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