Portuguese manuscripts collection
Language: por
Number of pages: 3000
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Genealogy; Social life and customs; Political messianism; Religion; Clergy; Intellectuals; Colonies; Portuguese literature; History; Inquisition; Kings and rulers; Diplomats; Orders of knighthood and chivalry; Intellectual life; Sebastianism; Catholic Church; Order of Christ; Ordem Militar de Avis; Peninsular War, 1807-1814; Portuguese poetry; Portuguese Diplomatic and consular service
Description: Letters, account books, literary manuscripts and poetry, reports, proclamations, legal and military documents, broadsides, notebooks, and other papers and documents relating to various aspects of Portuguese history, society, literature, religion, and culture.  Subjects include the poet, Luís de Camões; military orders of knighthood, especially the Ordem Militar de Avis and the Order of Christ; and Sebastianism.  Also contains material pertaining to the Peninsular War, Miguelist civil strife in Portugal, royal funeral ceremonies, the Inquisition, genealogy, and colonial administration in Brazil.  Prominent figures represented include Portuguese sovereigns, diplomats, priests and other religious leaders in the Catholic Church, intellectuals, and others.
Notes: Open to research.

In part, microfilm edition available, no. 16,982.

Microfilm produced from item 129 in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.

In part, transcripts and facsimiles. [S.l.].

Gift, Marcos Carneiro de Mendonca, via Mary Ellis Kahler, 1979.

Transfer, various divisions of the Library of Congress, 1931-1982.

Purchase, 1912-1988.

Collection material in Portuguese, with Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.

Guide published by the Library of Congress, 1980.  Finding aid to additional material available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.