Portuguese manuscripts collection, 1345-1918.

Open to research.

Correspondence, literary manuscripts and poetry, reports, notebooks, proclamations, legal and military documents, account books, broadsides, 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.

In part, microfilm edition of item 129 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.].

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

Guide titled, The Portuguese Manuscripts Collection of the Library of Congress : A Guide, published by the Library of Congress, 1980.

Finding aid to additional material available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.

The Portuguese manuscripts collection is formed primarily from material acquired by Library of Congress in 1927 and 1929 through the purchase of the private library of Antonio Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro. The manuscripts were transferred to the Library of Congress Manuscript Division from the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.