(Official Register of Properties of Dom Pedro de Menezes, Count of Viana and Governor of the City of Septa / Cepta [i.e., Ceuta] and of his daughter Dona Leonor de Menezes

A MOST IMPORTANT OFFICIAL MANUSCRIPT, NOTING THOSE JEWISH PROPERTIES VACATED FOLLOWING THE EXPULSION OF 1497. After the Expulsion of the Jews from Portugal, their real estate holdings were forcibly abandoned. The present manuscript, written barely a decade after the Expulsion, still refers to the Judiaria, the former Jewish areas of the city of Lisbon and records in detail the Synagogue and other communal buildings, as well as private properties, that had formerly been Jewish-owned. Thus, on f.12v. we read: "Another group of houses in the city of Lisbon, in the area which was the Judiaria Grande and is now called Villa Nova and said quarter is called Giballtar the Great...The above mentioned quarter which starts on the East with houses of Vasquo Gonçalves, and from the same East part of houses which belonged to Gill Gonçalves, and from the North with houses which were of Sallamão Samara, and from the West with houses of the brotherhood of the Jews...” A CONTEMPORARY RECORD OF EXCEPTIONAL SCARCITY, FROM WHICH ORIGINAL RESEARCH MAY BE UNDERTAKEN