Tombo das Capelas da cidade de Évora e das Vilas de Montemor-o-Novo, Alcáçovas, Viana, Redondo, Cabeção, Mora e Lavre; Vínculos das Provedorias da comarca de Évora e Estremoz, séculos XV-XIX = Inventory of the chapels of the city of Évora and towns of Montemor-o-Novo, Alcáçovas, Viana, Redondo, Cabeção, Mora and Lavre; Entails of the provedorias da comarca of Évora and Estremoz, 15th-19th centuries

Abstract

This book contains, in its first part, the transcription of the Tombo das Capelas da Cidade de Évora and the towns of Montemor-o-Novo, Alcáçovas, Viana, Redondo, Cabeção, Mora and Lavre, a 16th century document kept in the National Archive of Torre do Tombo. It is preceded by a historical introduction, contextualising the work, and followed by indexes (general and onomastic of institutors). The Tombo is of the utmost importance for the history of the kingdom of Portugal, and of the Alentejo region in particular, in the 15th-16th centuries. The second part presents a very significant set of entails’ registers, with records from the 15th to the 19th centuries, made from the last decades of the 16th century onwards and located in the Tombo's aftermath, testifying to the long and territorially broad continuity of the t”tombação” of the “property of souls” in the upper Alentejo region. Preceded by an introduction narrating the process and characterising the documentation, it provides researchers with unprecedented and substantial information, in the form of a list with thousands of entries, containing the main elements of historical and archival research.