Metadata: Collegiate of São Martinho of Sintra
Collection
- Country:
- Portugal
- Holding institution:
- The National Archive of Torre do Tombo
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
- Postal address:
- Alameda da Universidade, 1649-010 Lisbon
- Phone number:
- 00351 210037100
- Email:
- mail@dglab.gov.pt
- Reference number:
- PT/TT/CSMSN
- Title:
- Collegiate of São Martinho of Sintra
- Title (official language):
- Colegiada de São Martinho de Sintra
- Creator/accumulator:
- Colegiada de São Martinho de Sintra
- Date(s):
- 1291/1843
- Language:
- Latin
- Portuguese
- Extent:
- 8 books and 12 bundles
- Type of material:
- Textual Material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
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The Colegiada de São Martinho de Sintra fonds comprises documentation produced by or related to the collegiate and church of São Martinho of Sintra. It includes property records, sentences, wills, books of anniversaries, lists of chantries belonging to the church of São Martinho, documents of brotherhoods, etc. The first "Livro de testamentos e de diversas propriedades" (book of wills and various estates) (PT/TT/CSMSN/L001) contains some evidence of the Jewish community of Sintra in the 15th century. For instance, a deed of August 18, 1449, reports the "emprazamento" (emphyteusis contract) of houses in the judiaria (Jewish quarter) to Yoçe Fadalley, a Jew. Included in this document is the queen's authorisation to Fadalley to sell or purchase properties to Christians (fols. 49v-52). Another document signed at the gate of the judiaria on October 26, 1463, refers to another "emprazamento" of houses in the Jewish quarter to another Jew, Salomão Palaçano. Among the witnesses of this deed is Abraão Polegar, also a Jew (fols. 55-55v). A digital copy of this book is available online.
The following three books of wills and estates of this fonds (PT/TT/CSMSN/L002, PT/TT/CSMSN/L003 and PT/TT/CSMSN/L004), also available online, contain records from the 13th to the 16th century and, probably, more references to Jews living in Sintra.
- Archival history:
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After the closure of the collegiate church of São Martinho, its assets and income were directed to the support of the Seminary of Santarém. The collegiate church's records were also stored in the Seminary's registry. Following a decree of October 2, 1862, was ordered the transfer of the records from diverse collegiate churches in the Seminary of Santarém, including São Martinho, to the Torre do Tombo. Roberto Augusto da Costa Campos, the diplomatic officer of the archive, was charged with organising and cataloguing the records of the collegiate churches, which were mixed. Finally, on October 5, 1864, the documents were officially incorporated into the archive.
In 1976, the archive acquired at auction three books from the Collegiate of São Martinho (PT/TT/CSMSN/L006, PT/TT/CSMSN/L007 and PT/TT/CSMSN/L008).
At the end of the 1990s, the records from religious orders and institutions that were part of the Torre do Tombo collection were reorganised. Organisation by locality was discarded, and the records were aggregated according to their original religious institution, order, or diocese.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The church of São Martinho was founded in 1150 by King Afonso Henriques, shortly after Sintra had been conquered from the Moors.
The collegiate church belonged successively to the diocese, the archbishopric and the patriarchate of Lisbon. Like other collegiate churches, it was a community of clerics and laymen with the mission of ensuring the religious cult in the church. It was headed by a prior and composed of a number of "raçoeiros" (literally, who received a ration) or "beneficiários" (beneficiaries).
On November 1, 1755, the church was ruined by the Earthquake. Following a royal order, the collegiate and the church's brotherhoods were temporarily transferred to the church of Santa Clara da Misericórdia. It was still there in 1761. After the law of December 27, 1849, which dissolved the collegiate churches in Portugal, the collegiate church of São Martinho was abolished, and its assets and income were transferred to the Seminary of Santarém.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abraão Polegar
- Salomão Palaçano
- Yoçe Fadalley
- System of arrangement:
- Storage units (books and bundles) are sequentially numbered.
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions, except for records in poor condition or available in digital format.
- Finding aids:
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Handwritten and typewritten finding aids, available in the Torre do Tombo:
"Catálogo dos documentos da Colegiada de São Martinho de Sintra, verbetes do espólio de Silva Marques" (Catalogue of documents of the Colegiada de São Martinho de Sintra, Silva Marques collection's entries). 1978 (C 1067 1 to C 1067 7).
"Relação dos documentos pertencentes ao cartório da Colegiada de São Martinho de Sintra que, em virtude do Decreto de 2 de Outubro de 1862, e da Portaria do Ministério do Reino, de 29 de Janeiro de 1864, foram transferidos do Seminário Patriarcal de Santarém para o Arquivo da Torre do Tombo, em 5 de Outubro de 1864" (Inventory of documents of the Colegiada de São Martinho de Sintra that were transferred from the Seminary of Santarém to the Torre do Tombo on October 5, 1834) (C 449 and C 450).
- Links to finding aids:
- http://digitarq.arquivos.pt/details?id=4380509
- Yerusha Network member:
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Western Sephardic Diaspora Roadmap
- Author of the description:
- Carla Vieira, 2021