Documento, história e memória: edição semidiplomática dos manuscritos 603-1, 604 e 604.1 referentes à Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Lisboa e da Bahia

Abstract

The aim of this work is to safeguard the memory and, consequently, the history of national and local society. To this end, the study begins by recovering documents that deal with an institution with a centuries-old presence in international and national territories – the Santas Casas de Misericórdia. Thus, it focuses on the Santas Casas of Portugal and Bahia, based on the records contained in three manuscripts in the custody of the Public Archives of the State of Bahia. These manuscripts, numbered 603-1, 604 and 604-1, contain, respectively, a copy of the Compromisso da Misericórdia de Lisboa and two volumes of transcripts: one referring to the Brotherhood, Convents, Churches and Ecclesiastical Personnel of the Santa Casa de Misericórdia da Bahia; and the other to the privileges granted by the kings of Portugal to these Confraternities during the colonial period. Based on the assumptions of Philology – the science of text – the aim is to offer the records contained in these documents to the general public and scholars from various fields of knowledge through a conservative edition. This thesis, entitled Document, history and memory: conservative edition of Manuscripts 603-1, 604 and 604-1 on the Santas Casas de Misericórdia of Portugal and Bahia, aims, in addition to editing the texts, to present a general overview of the Public Archives of the State of Bahia and its role in preserving memory by collecting, storing and making available historical documents from Bahia in past times. It outlines a historical overview of the Santas Casas de Misericórdia in Lisbon and Bahia. It then presents the manuscripts under study, highlighting their external and internal characteristics from Codicology and present a diplomatic analysis of the documents that make up Manuscript 604.