Memória do Mundo

O luso-castelhano Tratado de Tordesilhas e o português Corpo Cronológico figuram entre os 38 bens do património documental inscritos este ano no registo Memória do Mundo da Unesco, anunciou hoje a organização.

O Tratado de Tordesilhas, assinado em 1494 entre as coroas de Portugal e de Castela, e que definia a partilha do Novo Mundo entre os dois reinos, e cujo original português se encontra no Arquivo Geral das Índias, em Sevilha, estando o castelhano na Torre do Tombo, foi um dos inscritos no registo Memória do Mundo da Unesco, representando Portugal e Espanha.

Portugal está ainda representado com o Corpo Cronológico – uma colecção que reúne mais de 80 mil documentos em papel e pergaminho datados dos séculos XV e XVI, existente na Torre do Tombo, em Lisboa.
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Portugal - Corpo Cronológico (Collection of Manuscripts on the Portuguese Discoveries)
More than 83,000 documents, most from the 15th and early 16th centuries, inform us on the interaction between Europeans, particularly the Portuguese, and African, Asian and Latin American populations in the Age of Discovery.

Spain/Portugal - Treaty of Tordesillas
An ensemble of agreements signed on 7 June 1494 between the Spanish and Portuguese monarchs, establishing a new demarcation line dividing the world between Spain and Portugal. Following the modification of the line, Portugal’s zone was extended to the eastern end of the South-American continent where Brazil was to be born.

Portugal - Letter from Pêro Vaz de Caminha
Porto Seguro, Island of Vera Cruz, Brazil, 1 May 1500 – Letter from Pêro Vaz de Caminha to the King of Portugal, Manuel I. This is the first document describing the land and people of what became Brazil. It was written at the very moment of first contact with this new world. Pêro Vaz de Caminha was an official who had been commissioned to report on the voyage of the India-bound fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral. The Letter is a unique document because of the facts it narrates, the quality of its description of the people and territory and its account of cultural dialogue with a people unknown in Europe up to that time. It is rich in detail and shrewd observations that make us feel we are eyewitnesses of the encounter. Pêro Vaz de Caminha started his Letter on 24 April and finished it on 1 May, the date when one of the vessels of the fleet sailed for Lisbon to announce the good news to the King.

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