The National Archives of Hungary (Budapest, 2006)
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL ARCHIVES OF NATIONAL COLLECTION - Hungarian National Archives by Géza Érszegi and István G. Vass
The Archives of Hungarian Treasury (1526 - 20 th century E section), is the financial office built on the influence of Hapsburg state organization and on medieval derivations that germinated after the battle of Mohács. It includes the records of Hungarian Royal Chamber. It gives a much richer source than that of other archives that primarily relate to economics of the 16 th and 17 th century. During this period the Hungarian Chamber was the only permanent working Hungarian central governingbody. The Hungarian Chamber completed and managed the royal and state economic affairs uninterruptedly from 1528 onwards. Its activity also covered the field of public administration as the supreme authority of the economic and financial clerks of the country. It handled all national revenue except military tax and also supervised all important accounts. Crown lands, treasury possessions, salt and mine affairs, the thirtieth part, the post regalee and the economic supervision of royal free boroughs were subordinated to it. The Hungarian Chamber was located in Pozsony - present day Bratislava. The Szepesi Chamber 1567 was organized as a subordinated chamber for administration of remote provinces.The Buda Chamber Administration was formed after the end of Turkish rule (1686) and which was subordinated to the Court Chamber. The royal Legal Affair director was the king's lawyer, who functioned as the treasurer in cases which dealt with civil actions as well as a pulic prosecutor in cases of treason and high treason. The Board of Legal Affairs received official approval in 1774 and existed up to 1853. The chamber official administration was based on the material of managing cases, which meant the Hungarian Chamber Archives. The organic framework of the archives were created by the first archivist whose name was Ádám Rajcsányi, (1730), but the institution itself was established only in 1754. The most abundant and colourful materials can be found there as well as the most important national economical registration. The Archives of Transylvanian Public Government Agency (1526 - F section) originates from the archives of Transylvanian - (Gyulafehérvár) Episcopacy and Chapter founded at arround the turn of year one thousand. Because of the influence of the Reformation, secularization happened in Transylvania in 1556; as a result, the archives of episcopacy and cathedral chapter, other authentic ecclesiastical institutions doing local activities, the convent in the settlement of Kolozsmonostor, the chapters in the settlements of Arad, Csanád and Várad became the central holding place for the would be-organized princely archives. The Royal Books- the copied books kept for ensuring the security in law and issued and registered in the chancellery of the prince, had to be placed in this archives. The princes ' private and other individual letters were included as well. The written material of the kings' household was also significant. The other great group of records that are from the princely authorities is the
