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of the country or province in question in the liberation war against the Turks. We did not expect an extensive historical analysis, but only a concise essential survey of the period treated. After the introduction, we find the principal data of the institution possessing the source material: name, address, character, the historical periods and divisions of the documents kept. The name of the institution and the title of the archival documents are published both in Hungarian and in the original language. This procedures reconciles the historical traditions of the various countries with those of Hungary, the differences in the archival systems, and makes the orientation in the material easier. The next item is the listing of the material referring to the period treated: the title of the document, the time period involved, its length, a short history of the person of body producing the document, a presentation of its contents, the language of the document, its organisation, and further research material available. In the listing of certain larger documents, some of the data may be missing. They could not be obtained even after repeated inquiries. For a number of countries, the presentation ends with a selected archival and historical bibliography, in the original language as customary. According to our original idea, as reflected in the model, the participating institutions were supposed to present the documents arranged according to themes. Yet, we were not successful in every case. Some divergences from the model were caused by the nature of the archival system of the country in question, the size of the relevant material and the availability of historical literature on the period. Unevenness in the manuscripts: the degree of exhaustiveness and amount of details, result from the problems mentioned and from the varying amount of earlier archivements in the field. The different archival systems and traditions explain that in some manuscripts only registers are listed, whereas elsewhere a description of the contents of the collections is found. The varying length of the manuscripts may also be explained by the traditions. This is, however, also related to the quantity of the documents surviving, as well as to the level of involvement of the country or area in the liberation wars in Hungary. Some of the disproportionateness had to be minimized. This unrewarding task fell to the editors’ lot. However, they tried to respect the archival traditions and special characteristics of each country, as well as the ideas and methods of the authors of the manuscripts. Changes regarding the contents were made only when overlappings or repetitions between some manuscrips were detected. Historical analyses and presentation of sources that went beyond the period or the subject-matter also required editiorial intervention. Such difficulties were resolved through reorganisation or deletion. To our great regret, surprisingly abundant and hitherto apparently unknown data on Prince Ferenc Rákóczi II and his followers fell victim to this purge. In some other cases, manuscripts had to be adjusted to the uniform requirements of the model. Only modifications in format were then adopted. Footnotes to historical introductions weje placed into the text or the bibliography, catalogue numbers in the text were transferred to their position prescribed by the model, and reference numbers belonging together were brought to one place. 1272
