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

Lőcse, Selmecbánya, Szatmárnémeti, Szepsi /, settlements / Csilizradvány Szentegyházasoláhfalu, Vári can be found here as well as the archives of different monastic orders: the Brothers/Sisters of Mercy, Jesuits and domanial archives of prominent legal figures: Abonyi and Baracskai Joint Tenants, Dévai fiscal domain and of cultural institutions : Rectorate of University of Sciences of Budapest, Scientific Institution of Konstantinápoly etc. We can find numerous important organizations. For example, Hungarian Trade Association, documents of Free Masons. The Collection from before the battle at Mohács, (1001 - 1526 - Q section), include Diplomatic Archives, medieval codex portions and copies that cannot be classified in the Diplomatic archives and reference-books belonging to medieval documents and others. The plan for collecting medieval documents separately rose after the formation of theHungarian National Archive, (1875). By sorting out the medieval written material and all the medieval documents became part of the common collection under the name of the Hungarian National Diplomatic Archives. Initially, all documents were taken out up to 1526 and were listed according to the earliest date among the documents. After World War II, the number of the original documents increased remarkably because the archives of museums were consolidated with the Hungarian National Archives in 1934, the documents of the Middle Ages in the Archives of Hungarian National Museum and the documents of numerous family archives were listed in Diplomatic Archives. Besides, the archives of modern offices a great number of medieval documents are kept in the Public Archive, the Archives of Hungarian Chancellery, Archives of Transylvanian Chancellery, Archives of Council of governor-general, Treasury Archives, Archives of Transylvanian National Government Agency, documents delivered by archives of Vienna, Regnicolaris Archives, Archives of Courts. The number of documents from the Middle Ages surviving in family archives is significant despite the vicissitudes of life and its continuous subjection destruction. Several family archives held thousands of documentsBattyány, Esterházy, Festetics, Forgách, Kállay Kisfaludy, Radvánszky Zichy, / The number of middle landed nobility family archives keeping several hundreds documents is relatively large: Berzeviczy Kállay, Lónyay, Máriássy etc. And the number of small landed nobility family archives is not small eitherAlmássy, Antos, Ányos, Balassa, Becsky Békássy Bezerédi, Blagay Bogyay Dőry Gál, Gyulay, Horváth, Kapy Pelejthey Viczay and Khuen-Héderváry Kisfaludy, Kossuth, Kölcsey, Kubinyi, Mérey Nényey Ostffy Perényi, Semsey Szulyovszky Tallián, Thaly, Újhelyi, Vécsey Wattay and so on. Many institutions also preserved medieval material-Baracskai Joint Tenants,