De Expugnatione Scalabis
''De expugnatione Scalabis'' is an anonymous Latin account of the Portuguese conquest of Santarém on 15 March 1147. It is the earliest and most detailed source for that event and is informed by eyewitness accounts. The title ''De expugnatione Scalabis'' ('On the Conquest of Santarém') was given to the text by Alexandre Herculano in his 1856 edition for the '' Portugaliae Monumenta Historica''. It has been the common title ever since, although in the manuscript it is entitled ''Quomodo sit capta Sanctaren civitas a rege Alfonso comitis Henrici filio'' ('How the City of Santarém Was Captured by Alfonso, Son of Count Henry'). The text is preserved in one manuscript, now Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Fundo Alcobacense 415, which was copied at the Cistercian monastery of Alcobaça in the late twelfth or mid-thirteenth century. It takes up only two pages. The ''Scalabis'' begins with a short hymn. Its incipit is an invitation to Christian worship—''Cantemus domino fratr ...
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