Buda expugnata 1686. Europa et Hungaria 1683-1718 - A török kiűzésének hazai levéltári forrásai (Budapest, 1987)
Függelék - Rezümék - angol
The Hungarian documents concerning the liberation wars are partly extant in the Hungarian National Archives and partly in the territorial archives. The Hungarian National Archives primarily consist of the material of the central government authorities, which administered the state areas of Hungary (and Transylvania), from the compromise of 1867 to 1944, and of the archives of families and companies which played outstanding roles in the country's economic and political life, and of collections representing similar high standards. The present publication includes the materials of the government authorities operating between 1683—1720: the Hungarian Chancellory Archives (marked Hungarian National Archives: section A), Transylvanian Chancellory Archives (section B) and the Transylvanian National Government Archives (section F), Hungarian Treasury Archives (section E) and the Regnicolaris Archives (the archives of the estates, including the archives of the palatines representatives of the highest estate rank), with the materials of the national assemblies and the national tax assessments (section N). From section P, including the archives of families, bodies and institutions, we should separately emphasis the archives of the Batthyány family and the archives of the ducal branch of the Esterházy family (at that time, nádor Pál Esterházy was an outstanding member of the family). Collections from the post-1526 period (section R) are also described, as well as the concerning documents of the plan depository (section T). The system of the territorial archives is essentially adjusted to the territorial administration of the country. Because of its significance, and particularly with regard to our topic, the Municipal Archives of Budapest takes first place. The earlier three components of the city (Buda, Óbuda and Pest) had separate archives; from among them the archives of Buda and Pest contain reference material interesting for us. Each were articulated according to the organs of municipal administration (Buda: document of the town council, documents of the tax office, documents of the chancellory or sub-chancellory handling the town incomes, documents of the land registry, documents of the auditing office, docuemnts of the court, and the secret archives safeguarding more important legal documents, and a collection of documents declared as of historic value). The articulation of Pest's material is essentially similar. Documents which concern all three towns are separate and contain the documents of corporate bodies — the guilds and industrial associations. The system of the other territorial archives is adjusted to the counties of the country. A county may have had more than one archive , this articulation partly developed according to the division of the county , preserving the image of the appropriately set up archive network, partly the different towns had separate archives. Attention should be drawn to the fact that the material concerning our era in the county archives of present-day Hungary is rather uneven. Most of the present Hungarian state territory was under Turkish occupation prior to the 1683—1699 Liberation War, thus county administration developed again when the county was liberated from under Turkish rule. There were counties where the assemblies of the nobility operated even under Turkish rule (in one of the neighbouring unoccupied counties), but in an understandable manner, the administrative material is poorer. The material of other archives may have been damaged 397
