Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

Veszprém Megyei Levéltár (Veszprém County Archives)

and those of the registry court, precious sources of industrial and economic history of the bourgeois period. The schools and scientific, hygienic and social institutes on the territory of the county are also collected by the Archives, but these archival groups and especially those of educational institutes are far from complete. Of the archival groups of the guilds and vinegrowing communities, primary sources of economic and local history, most are preserved by the Bakony Museum of Veszprém. The Archives has the archival groups of trade corporations, also with some lacks. Nor is the series of the various associations for culture and general education and of the post-liberation political associations complete. Mentioning the archival groups of economic organs we have to note that Veszprém county has been one of the industrially most developped counties, so we might await copious records of this kind. (A large part of the records of capitalistic joint-stock companies is in the Hungarian National Archives.) Of this group especially the records of the former agricultural estates of religious orders and private landlords are interesting, such as those of the Nagyvázsony estate of the Count Zichy family. — The bulk of the material of the socialist period, though ripe for archival protection (cca 1000 running metres) is still in the custody of the enterprises, owing to the lack of stackrooms. The archival groups of ecclesiastical organs are very valuable parts of our repository. The majority of medieval documents comes from them. Notable ones: the Archives of the Veszprém Cathedral Chapter as a place of authenticity (1214-1870), the Archives of the Zirc-Pilis-Pásztó-Szentgotthárd United Cistercian Arch-Abbey at Zirc (1295-1950) and the Archives of the Tihany Abbey of the Benedictine Order of Pannonhalma (1373-1931). The Archives has a few but the more valuable family archival groups, significant for economic, local and family history. Special attention is due to the Berhida Archivum (1611-1869), comprising the papers of a nobilitary commonage. On the other Hand, the material of personal bequests is less significant. Among the collections, the first place is due to our collection of medieval (pre-1526) records, totalling 287 charters at present. The oldest one dates from 1214, issued from the Veszprém convent. Our manuscript collection of maps is containing more than 600 maps from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Of other collections of more recent date that of microfilms (almost 200,000 pieces) is the most valuable, produced by the Hungarian National