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The Documents section concerns the documentation produced by the practice of entailment between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its great variety, both in terms of the producing institutions and the centuries-long period under study, required an effort to define the document typologies, supported by diplomatic analysis. Since these are topics on which there is little material in the historiography and archival studies on Portugal, this work, initially intended as an aid, acquired its own structure, and we believe that it will be useful beyond the VINCULUM project.

This section was divided into two subsections:
Document types
This subsection includes the typological analysis of the documentation on entails, presenting for each type, and whenever applicable, the name, the specific bibliography, the definition, the author/producing institution, the addressee(s), the legislation, the processing, the organisation of the documents within the typology/related documents, their administrative validity, and the registration and archiving conditions.

Diplomatic analysis
This subsection includes the diplomatic analysis of the identified typologies of documents related to entails, presenting for each typology, and whenever applicable, the reference and date of the analysed documents, the parts of the documents/elements, the protocol (invocatio, intitulatio, inscriptio, and salutatio), the text (notificatio, expositio, dispositio, and final clauses), and the eschatocol (topical and chronological date, validation, and secretarial notes). The documents were selected by the project team, and are indicated in each diplomatic typological frame.

Document types

  • Table of Correspondences

* Terms for which no suitable translations were found were kept in Portuguese.

Acceptance deed
Account of the administration
Acknowledgment record
Acórdão/Acórdão em Relação
Acquisition letter
Administration letter
Administration record
Affidavit
Agreement deed
Annexation deed
Apostille on a grace warrant of administration
Apostille on a public debt instrument
Appointment letter
Approval and addition deed
Approval deed
Auto de penhora
Auto de vistoria
Auto ou termo de arrematação
Autuação
Bill of complaint
Bond
Bylaw
Carta de mercê de regimento e certificação de tombo
Carta de remissão de encargos pios
Carta testemunhável
Certificate
Chancery record
Chapel foundation deed
Chaplains’ appointment
Citation letter
Codicil
Composition deed
Confirmation and reformation letter
Confirmation letter
Confirmation warrant 
Consent deed
Consulta
Contract and bond deed
Contrariedade
Court proceedings
Court sentence
Declaration deed
Deed of sale
Delegation of authority
Denunciation warrant of administration
Dispatch
Donation deed
Dowry deed
Due diligence deed
Entail foundation deed
Evaluation deed
Exchange deed
Execution deed
Exemplification
Genealogical narrative
Grace warrant
Grace warrant of administration
Grant of a coat of arms
Inquisitio
Instrumento de justificação e habilitação
Instrumento de linhagem
Instrumento de satisfação de legítima e anexação das terças
Intimação de agravo
Inventory
Juízo dos Resíduos record
Land measurement deed
Lease deed
Legal report
Legitimation letter
Letter of attorney
Letter of possession
Letter of quittance
Letter patent (carta patente)
Libel of accusation (Libelo)
Licence
Mandate
Mortgage bond
Motion
Notification warrant
Opening deed of will
Ordinance
Pagamento à terça
Papal brief
Papal bull
Partition and obligation deed
Partition deed
Payment deed
Pension letter
Petition
Precatory letter
Privilege letter
Probate inventory
Provedoria record
Provision
Provision record (Livro de provisões)
Public debt instrument
Ratification deed
Reform administration letter
Resignation and appointment deed
Resignation, ratification, quittance, and agreement deed
Revocation deed
Royal charter
Royal sentence
Sale and bond deed
Sale, quittance, and obligation deed
Seizure warrant
Subrogation deed
Surety and security bond
Tenure contract
Tenure warrant
Termo
Termo de apresentação
Termo de confissão
Termo de declaração
Termo de lançamento
Three-lifetimes lease
Tombo
Torre do Tombo registry book record
Two-lifetime lease
Visitation
Warrant
Warrant to pledge assets
Will
Will chart
Written request

Diplomatic analysis

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VISG is an output of the ERC project

VINCULUM – Entailing Perpetuity: Family, Power, Identity. The Social Agency of a Corporate Body (Southern Europe, 14th-17th Centuries)

Email: vinculum@fcsh.unl.pt
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