Zounuk - A Szolnok Megyei Levéltár Évkönyve 1. (Szolnok, 1986)

ADATTÁR - Kaposvári Gyula: A német lovagrend jászkun vonatkozású levéltári fondjai / 257. o.

GYULA KAPOSVÁRI ARCHIVE FONDS OF THE TEUTONIC ORDER RELATED TO JAZYGIA-CUMANIA The formerly privileged areas of Jazygia, Cumania Major and Cumania Minor were purchased by the Teutonic Order for 500,000 forints in 1702. Hence the population of the area became subjugated as serfs. In order to utilize the Jazygian-Cumanian Districts, the new owner had diverse economic surveys carried out. These documents, and the other papers accumulated in the administration of the area until 1731, when the districts were passed from the Teutonic Order to the Invalids of Pest as pledge-holders, were preserved as a separate unit in the Archives of Vienna under the reference Deutsch Ordens Zentral Archiv (DOZA) Ung. Abt. The material of the DOZA Ungarische Abteilung was first used by János Illésy, of Kisújszállás a historian and archivist of the Hungarian State Archives, in his studies connected to the Jazygian-Cumanian redemption. The essential statements of this study were later involved in studies and monographies published about the history of redemption. In the second half of the 1930is Jenő Berlász studied the Hungarian material of DOZA, and by describing and evaluating the archive order of the era and by referring to the enormous historical values in it, he tried to call the researcher's attention to this material. In the Annual of the Archive Review in 1937 and in a separate study, titled „The Teutonic Order's Archive in Vienna. Ungarn-group" he reviews the original fonds of the 18 volumes of the Jazygian-Cumanian archive material, completed by a „volume of quart formation: the conscription of people and properties of great value in Jazygia-Cumania in 1713". In the years approaching World War II, no one had the oppurtunity to make a thorough research of the material. Nor was it available for a longer period after the liberation of Hungary. Researchers had to face difficulties since the materials of the DOZA Ung. Abt. were damaged during World War II, thrown into confusion and muddled, as dr. Dehmel, director of DOZA informed the author in 1971 during his research on Jazygian-Cumanian materials within the frames of a tourist trip. Studying the photocopies of the study by Berlász the present author was trying to find the documents, and he was informed that a new fonds-list had been compiled after 1945. He found it necessary to make a copy of this list in order to enable its utilization in further research. In this review the German text of the new fonds-list is published, completed with its Hungarian translation. 277