Documenta Filipina – The Philippines in Portuguese Archives and Libraries (1506-1832) is a step further on the collaborative partnership between CHAM – Centro de Humanidades (NOVA FCSH) and the Philippine Embassy in Lisbon. It aims at identifying and gathering the existing information about the Philippines in the most relevant archives and manuscript collections in Portugal, namely in Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Biblioteca da Ajuda and Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, from the 16th to the early 19th century. Its final objective is to present a useful compilation of data to be managed by Filipino scholars and researchers in their future work on Portuguese historical materials.
It was carried out by team of eight researchers from the Working Group :
- Elsa Penalva
- Kevin Carreira Soares
- Mariana Boscariol
- Miguel Geraldes Rodrigues
- Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço
- Paulo Jorge de Sousa Pinto
- Pedro Pinto
- Rui Manuel Loureiro
The project was sponsored by the Philippine Embassy in Lisbon with the support of Senator Loren Legarda and was closed in 2023. It was published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Office of Senator Loren Legarda in 2025 and is available in open access for free downloading. More information here.