History of Portugal: Primary Documents
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- (Translations)
- (4 September, 1479; English translation)
- Documentation of the Brazilian colonization
- Including the Treaty of Tordesilhas dividing the colonizable world between Spain and Portugal
- and the letter to the King by Pero Vaz de Caminha on acquisition of Brazil.
- Presented by the Portuguese Biblioteca Nacional
- (15th-16th centuries; commentaries, facsimiles and transcriptions)
- This scribe informed the King of Portugal about the discovery of Brazil
- (1 May 1500; Portuguese-language transcription)
- Following explorers from Portugal during the Age of Discovery.
- (16th-17th centuries; maps, facsimiles, and commentary)
- (Translations and transcriptions).
- From the Biblioteca Nacional, digitized for Europeana, an online library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
- (1586-1785; facsimiles)
- Royal act granting to the Portuguese Inquisition the status of Royal Tribunal, granting it independence and administrative autonomy.
- (20 May 1769; transcription)
- (1807; transcriptions).
- Political Documents from Portuguese History
- (18th - 20th centuries; Portuguese-language transcriptions)
- List of Portuguese Historical Works digitized by the National Library
- (Facsimiles and transcriptions in Portuguese)
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
- An archive of images and documents from the French perspective of World War II.
- Requires video software for the clips.
- (1940-1944; videos, photo images and transcriptions)
- A collection of documents related to WWII.
- From the Avalon Project.
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1938-1945; translations)
- Forward and Executive Summary to the Preliminary Study from the U.S. State Department.
- (1939-present; transcriptions)
- From the U.S. State Department: Supplement to Preliminary Study on U.S. and Allied Efforts yo Recover and Restore Gold and other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany During World War II
- (1939-present; transcriptions)
- Constitution of the Republic of Portugal and other Legislation
- (Portuguese transcriptions; English, French and Spanish translations)
- (with revisions through 1997; English translation)
- Provided by Beja Polytechnical Institute.
- A database of text documents provided by the Ministry of Justice.
- Constitutional & legislative sources provided by the Portuguese parliament.
- Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.
- A digital collection of historic Portuguese newspapers and journals.
- (19th & 20th centuries; facsimiles and transcriptions)
- An annotated and growing list of Spanish and Portugese rare books online (scroll down for Portuguese titles).
- A part of DigiSpain coordinated by Klaus Graf.
- (Medieval to 19th century; facsimiles and transcriptions)
- Includes maps and other geographic data on demography and political history in Portugal
- Spearheaded by Prof. Luís Nuno Espinha da Silveira.
- A project of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
- (Facsimiles and textual commentaries).
- A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's*Historic Cities
- (Facsimiles).
- Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
- (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
- (Facsimiles).
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