A Pest Megyei Levéltár. Levéltárismertető (Budapest, 2004)

Seventeen thousand meters of historical source/Introduction of the main archives

SEVENTEEN THOUSAND METERS OF HISTORICAL RESOURCES - INTRODUCTION TO THE MAIN ARCHIVES he documents stored in the Pest County Archives - over seventeen thousand linear meters of documents - are distributed into 23 main archives. We introduce some documents in our reviewer besides the general introduction of the archives contained in these, first of all because of their importance, or because significantly more documents endured about their operation compared to the others. The ieudal age documents of the county municipal authorities up to the year of 1848 will be detailed individually, within the main archives, furthermore the larger and more significant settlements will also be introduced individually, namely the archival documents ot the following ones: the towns of Nagykőrös, Vác, Szentendre, Cegléd, Kiskunlacháza and Ráckeve, and the big village of Törökbálint. The abundance of documents preserved make it possible to describe guilds of long past of the settlements of Vác and Nagykőrös. There is also a well-detailed reviewer about the Chapter of Vác and about the Economic Archives of the Vác Episcopal Administration stored in our archives from clerical institutions. MAIN ARCI IIVK UNIT IV - COUNTY MI INICIPAL AI n 1 IORITY The documents of the county municipal authority can be found here: the archive of Pest-Pilis-Solt County from the first part of 13

th century to 1876 and the archive of PestPilis-Solt-Kiskun County from 1876 to 1944, or to 1950. Their total volume exceeds five thousand linear meters. The documents oj ilie county municipal authority up to 1848 The core material of the Pest County Archives is made up of the old county archive. The feudal age of this contains the history of operation of the one-time Pest-Pilis-Solt County noble government in the approximate volume of six hundred linear meters. The nobility discussed all the cases regarding the county and belonging to its authority during the 4-6 annual general assemblies. The assembly, as a corporation, had two types of meetings. The general meeting (generalis congregatio) usually met in every quarter or twothree month' time and every nobleman of the county could attend these meetings. The partial convention (particularis congregatio) had its meetings separately where only the staff of officers and the most respected nobles of the county could be present. At the beginning the convention operated as a juridical and governmental forum, later on it became independent, and the sedes iudiciaria (sedria), the County Lawcourt was formed from it. The primary goal of the county general assemblies in the Middle Ages was the 161