Levéltári Közlemények, 87. (2016)
Műhely - Somorjai Ádám: Kétszáz éves a Vatikáni Államtitkárság történeti - "külügyminisztériumi" - levéltára. Módszertani szempontok a magyar vonatkozású források kutatásához
Műhely ÁDÁM Somorjai The 200 years of the Historical Archives of the State Secretary of the Vatican Methodological aspects for research on historical sources of Hungarian topics The Historical Archives of the State Secretary of the Vatican celebrated its 200th anniversary. On this occasion the Author offers a practical introduction to the institution, which should not be confused with the famous Secret Archives of the Vatican. It was opened to the researchers only in 1986. The archives during its 200-year period (in fact only between 1815 and 1939) functioned as the Archives of the Foreign Office of the Vatican and conserved documents of the Church’s estates, of the Holy See, and about almost all the states of the world. The reader may find information on Hungary under the following categories: Austria (until 1867), Austria-Hungary (until 1939!), Hungary (after 1921), in the “Caprano” fonds (after 1802), in the “Rapporti delle Sessioni” series (after 1814), and in the bilateral contacts with Romania (about 1870), Czechoslovakia (after 1919), and Yugoslavia (after 1921). 248
