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ALVES (Francisco Manuel, Abade de Baçal). MEMÓRIAS Archeologico-Historicas do Districto de Bragança. Porto. 1909-1948. - ALVES (Francisco Manuel, Abade de Baçal) MEMÓRIAS Archeologico-Historicas do Districto de Bragança . Porto: Typographia a vapor da Empreza Guedes, 1909-1948. 11 v.: il.; 240 mm. First edition, complete set of eleven volumes. The Archaeological-Historical Memoirs of the District of Bragança are the work of a lifetime and one of the most remarkable regional monographs ever published in Portugal. The subtitle of the first volumes aptly defines its encyclopedic ambition: a comprehensive repository of chorographic, hydro-orographic, geological, mineralogical, hydrological, bio-bibliographical, heraldic, etymological, industrial, and statistical information, of interest to both the secular and ecclesiastical history of the district. The first volumes bring together a wealth of invaluable documents, transcribed in full from local archives, parish and notarial offices, ecclesiastical archives, and national collections: charters, donations, inquiries, papal bulls and royal documents, information about the city of Bragança, the towns and villages of the district, churches, monasteries, castles and antiquities, and the history of the diocese of Miranda and Bragança. From the fifth volume onwards, the work is organized by thematic sections: V, The Jews in the District of Bragança ; VI, The Nobles ; VII, The Notables ; VIII, In the Simancas Archive ; IX and X, Archaeology, Ethnography and Art ; XI, Archaeology and Ethnography . Each of these sections is a work of reference in itself. The volume dedicated to Jews and New Christians, based on extensive research into inquisitorial proceedings, is a pioneering study and remains fundamental to Jewish history in Portugal; the original edition was published with a section of the prologue omitted, only restored in modern re-editions. ”Os Fidalgos” is a vast collection of nobility from Trás-os-Montes; ”Os Notáveis” is a bio-bibliographical dictionary of figures from the district; the volume on Simancas reveals Spanish documentation about the region; the final volumes bring together studies of Roman and medieval epigraphy, archaeology, sacred art, language, customs, beliefs and popular traditions, with important contributions to the study of Mirandese. Illustrated. The work was republished by the Abade de Baçal Museum and, in 2000, by the Bragança City Council, but the original edition, published over almost four decades in small print runs, rarely appears complete on the market. A fundamental, rare, and highly sought-after work in its complete form. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate