Szakály Ferenc: Ami Tolna vármegye középkori okleveleiből megmaradt 1314-1525 (Wosinsky Mór Múzeum, Szekszárd, 1998)

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If Tolna county, as an administrative unit, had an elementary archive, then it was all destroyed, most probably after the Turkish occupation of the county in 1541/43. There was not discovered any group of documents in any of the family archives which could be regarded as the remains of that county archive. The county, however, had preserved a kind of record of the documents it issued, and it is also probable that the received supreme orders were kept as well (including those concerning taxation, recruitment, and county delegates to the diet) and it was required to keep the decteta by law. Consequently, if we collect the Tolna county documents which survived in certain family and corporate archives and the orders which were sent to the some body (which hardly ever came down to us as separate documents), we can have an idea what the archive looked like, what kind of authority it enjoyed, how the procedures were carried out and who the county office-holders were. In the excellent repertories of the Hungarian National Archives (Budapest) 215 such documents were found. The first one dates from 24 July 1314. The first such royal mandátum recovered was issued on 5 August 1319 and the first relatio on 1 August 1369. The last one of the documents included here dates from 13 November 1525. The mandata are numbered and listed separately; those documents that were issued outside the county make up little more than 1/5 of all documents. (Naturally that few royal orders, which were sent to the county in legal cases have special numbering as well.) Through reconstruction the number of documents could have been increased. For example, by transforming those documents of the loca credibilia, about which it is known that the county was also required to make inquiries in. Four optional examples are attached in the Appendix as an illustration. The Introduction preceding the document-abstracts, contains a short summary of what should be known and what can be known of the medieval Tolna county. (The first part deals with it until 1490, the second until 1566). What is important here from the first part is, that the county administration was on the rise all through the period concerned, and that it could well serve the aims at the fulfilling of which it was established, that is the representation of local nobility and the running of jurisdiction and administration. It is obvious from the fact that the exemplary modern Hungarian administration was practically formed from this county set-up by the repression of its self-govermentary -that is noble - character in the second half of the 19th century. What concerns the personnel at the head of Tolna county: the names of the successive comes are known since 1093, first with gaps, but continuously from