NATIONAL HISTORICAL ARCHIVESNATIONAL HISTORICAL ARCHIVES AND AND
MONASTERIUM PROJECTMONASTERIUM PROJECT
Final results
Praga, april 2015
INTRODUCTION
Spain, and more specifically, the General Office of State Archives (dependent on the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport), as a partner of the ENArC Network, has worked on the description, indexing and digitization of a part of the rich medieval charters collections held in the Clergy Section of the National Historical Archives.
Monasterium and AHN
1. Scope of the project2. Development of the project 3. Dificulties we came across with this
project4. Results and statistics
1. SCOPE
Documents of the Galician monasteries, specially from:Benedictine OrderCistercian Order
Galicia was one of the first regions of the Iberian peninsula in which monastic life was established.
Therefore, there are a lot of charters dating from the 9th century onwards.
2. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT
Project was developed since 2011 till 2014.
Main tasks: identification, description, digitization and dissemination of the charters.
Coordination between the different tasks and working groups was made by Description and Preservation Departments of the AHN and the General Office of State Archives.
2. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT
International standards: ISAD (G) and ISAAR (CPF). Spanish Standard for Indexing, made by the General Office of State Archives.
Two people with a specific trainning in medieval latin, galician language and medieval scripts (principally visigothic, caroline and gothic scripts).
The General Office of State Archives is in charge of the dissemination on the Internet: Pares/Mom/Apex
3.DIFICULTIES The variety of languages
(multilingualism): Latin, Romance and Galician languages with unknown words and specific expressions.
Special casuistic of the galician palaeography, with different evolution than in the rest of the Iberian Peninsula: abbreviations, lines, etc.
3.DIFICULTIES
Identification of different pieces of charter in order to complete the genuine charter: some documents were found in several pieces and stored in different folders at provincial tax offices.
Pares/Mom allow to join image and description in right monastery fond, respecting original reference code.
Monasteries of San Xoán de Poioand Santa María de Armenteira
3.DIFICULTIES
Physical conditions of the documents:
In a humid environment (Galicia), parchment absorbs excessive quantities of water: several damages, mould/fungus,tears, folds and deformation of parchment, etc. Interventive procedures were necessary in some cases.
Problems of reading.
Monastery of San Salvador de Lérez
Dificulties
Preservation of seals: special boxes. Indexing/elaboration of access
points: we had a few difficulties in indexing some institutions and places.
4. RESULTS AND STATISTICSSent to MOM: 19 monastery fonds and 5.282 charters. Monastery of San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives [18
charters] Monastery of Santa María de Melón [904 charters] Monastery of Santa María de Montederramo [491
charters] Monastery of Santa Comba de Naves [30 charters] Monastery of Santa María de Oseira [959 charters] Monastery of Santo Estevo de Ribas de Sil [70 charters] Monastery of Santa María de Ribeira [13 charters] Monastery of San Pedro de Rocas [26 charters] Monastery of Santa María de San Clodio do Ribero [3
charters] Monastery of San Salvador de Celanova [111 charters] Monastery of Santa María de Xunqueira de Espadañedo
[18 charters]
4. RESULTS AND STATISTICS
Monastery of San Pedro de Vilanova de Dozón [95 charters]
Monastery of Santa María de Armenteira [682 charters]
Monastery of San Lorenzo de Carboeiro [20 charters]
Monastery of San Salvador de Lérez [234 charters]
Monastery de Santa María da Franqueira [44 charters]
Sent to MOM in january 2015, avalaible in the near future
Monastery de San Pedro de Ramirás [37 charters] Monastery de Santa María de Oia [1234 charters] Monastery de San Xoán de Poio [339 charters]
MOM, may 2015
Monastery of San Martiño de A Cova: 33 charters Monastery of San Salvador de Asma: 334 charters Monastery of Santa María de Ferreira de Pallares: 56 charters Monastery of Santa María de Monfero: 290 charters Monastery of San Salvador de Lourenzá: 454
charters
PONTEVEDRA: 2.752 charters
Monastery of San Pedro de Vilanova de Dozón. 95 charters Santa María de Armenteira. 680 charters+ 1 seal San Lorenzo de Carboeiro. 21 charters Santa María de Franqueira. 44 charters San Salvador de Lérez. 234 charters Convent of Santo Domingo de Pontevedra. 16 charters Monastery of Santa María de Acibeiro. 4 charters Convent of San Francisco de Pontevedra: 2 charters Monastery of Santa María de Oia: 1234 charters Monastery of San Xoán de Poio: 339 charters Convent of Santo Domingo de Tui: 18 charters Convent of Santa Clara de Pontevedra: 46 charters Monastery of San Pedro de Ansemil de Silleda: 4 charters Monastery of San Salvador de Camanzo de Vila de Cruces: 14
charters
TOTAL: 2.752 charters
OURENSE: 2.704 charters Monastery of Santa María de Montederramo. 490 charters Monastery of Santa Comba de Naves. 27 charters+ 3 seals Monastery of Santa María de Oseira. 941 charters+ 10 seals Monastery of Santo Estevo de Ribas do Sil. 62 charters+ 8 seals Monastery of Santa María de Ribeira. 13 charters Monastery of San Pedro de Rocas. 24 charters+ 2 seals Monastery of Santa María de San Clodio do Ribero. 3 charters Monastery of San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives. 17 charters Monastery of San Salvador de Celanova. 91 charters+ 19 seals Monastery of Santa María de Xunqueira de Espadañedo. 18 charters Monastery of Santa María de Melón. 894 charters+ 10 seals Monastery of San Pedro de Ramirás. 37 charters Convent of Santo Domingo de Ribadavia. 2 charters Convent of Santa Clara de Allariz. 32 charters+ 1 seals
TOTAL: 2.704 charters
A CORUÑA: 1.260 charters
Monastery of San Justo Toxosoutos 38 charters Monastery of Santa María de Monfero 284 charters Monastery of Santa María de Mezonzo 2 charters Monastery of Santa María de Sobrado 616 charters Monastery of San Xoán de Caabeiro 54 charters Monastery of San Salvador de Pedroso 1 charter Monastery of San Miguel de Breamo 1 charter Monastery of San Antolín de Baiñas 5 charters Monastery of San Antolín de Toques 8 charters Monastery of San Cibrán de Bribes 3 charters Monastery of San Martín de Xubia 4 charters Monastery of San Martín Pinario de Santiago de
Compostela 112 charters Monastery of San Paio de Antealtares 30 charters Monastery of San Pedro de Fora de Santiago 2 charters
A CORUÑA: 1.260 charters Monastery of San Pedro de Soandres 5 charters Monastery of San Salvador de Bergondo 11 charters Monastery of San Salvador de Cines 20 charters Monastery of San Sebastián de Picosacro 3 charters Monastery of Santa María de Cambre 3 charters Monastery of San Cristóbal de Dormeá 5 charters Convent of Sancti Spiritus de Melide 4 charters Convent of Santa Catalina de Montefaro 11 charters Convent of San Francisco de Santiago 2 charters Convent of Santa Clara de Santiago 6 charters Convent of Santa María de Belvis de Santiago 2 charters Convent of la Encarnación de Santiago de Compostela 1
charter Cathedral of Santiago 20 charters Hospital de San Francisco de Santiago de Compostela 7
charters
TOTAL: 1.260 charters
LUGO: 1.452 charters
Monastery de San Martiño da Cova: 29 charters. Monastery de San Miguel de Coelleira: 1 charter. Monastery de San Salvador de Asma de Chantada: 318
charters + 2 seals. Monastery de San Xoán da Cova: 1 charter. Monastery de San Andrés de Orrea: 1 charter. Monastery de San Salvador de Ferreira de Pantón: 7
charters. Monastery de Santa María de Ferreira de Pallares:
555 charters + 1 seal. Monastery de San Salvador de Villanueva de
Lorenzana: 345 charters + 3 seals. Monastery de San Martín de Villaoriente: 167
charters. Monastery de San Esteban de Chouzán: 22 charters.
