Toward the transcription of the court record of the Portuguese Inquisition | Susana Tavares Pedro
Channel: Transkribus
Date: 2022-10-05

Susana Tavares Pedro, University of Lisbon
Toward the transcription of the court record of the Portuguese Inquisition (1536-1821) (TraPrInq). The first results of an ongoing project
The presentation comes at the seventh month of the TraPrinq project. It aims at explaining the modus operandi, describing and analyzing the problems encountered, the solutions adopted, giving the first results obtained, and opening the horizon. TraPrInq is a project based on the work of a team. It aims, in eighteen months, to provide the technical basis that will make this undertaking feasible by creating in Transkribus a generic model of HTR. In the long run, it is a matter of taking up a challenge that until a few years ago could not be met: transcribing documents that have been produced for almost three centuries. Aside from the criminal cases, there are about 40000 cases, which can be evaluated in number of pages between 4 and 8 million. The inquisitorial archives are a primary source of particular importance because of their conservation, relative to the archives of the Spanish and Italian inquisitions, and their centralization in the National Archive of Portugal (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon).