MANUSCRITOS - BRAGANÇA E VINHAIS MANUSCRITOS.- BRAGANÇA E VINHAIS.- Carta de doação.- Século XII (1159).- 1 f.; 295x400 mm. Manuscript on parchment. Letter of donation by which Fernando Godins donates to the monastery of San Martín de Castanheira (or Castañeda), in the land of Sanabrian, the Bishopric of Astorga (Lion), the properties it inherited from its parents, located in Rabal (Bragança) and Vilar de Ossos (Vinhais). Beautiful document of the early days of nationality, in primitive Gothic calligraphic letter, presenting a chrismon on the left bank of the first three lines (reproduced in vol. 2 of Elucidário de Viterbo, p. 643b, attachement "XP"), a small sign in front of the subscription in the notary, "Petrus qui notuit ", and another larger, centered and flanked by the lists of confirmatives and witnesses, in rosette, with a cross in the centre, possibly the author of the donation. . Document published in T. 3 (1910, pp. 263-264) of the Archeologico-Historicas of the district of Braganza, of the abbot of Baçal, to the time belonging to the "notary of the Figueiredos, in Braganza" and in possession of Francisco de Moura Coutinho. It is, of course, one of the oldest documents we are aware of, referring to the toponyms and properties of the Braganza district. Provenance: Collection Manuel Empis de Lucena.