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

Az Egri Érsekség Levéltára (Eger Archiépiscopal Archives)

eight groups according to subjects, the pieces being provided with current numerals. This was called the ancient archives, Archivum Vetus. The records of the archiépiscopal period beginning with 1805 received the name of new archives, Archivum Novum and were preserved by the chancellery under the recently introduced current numerals of filing; later, between 1818 and 1830 the archivist József HANGONYI established the subject groups, valid up to our day. According to this system the archiépiscopal chancellery files the arriving records in a yearly beginning register, "protocol" under current numerals, it enters them also in an alphabetical index and preserves them for 10 to 15 years in bundles according to the numbers of filing in its own registry. After 15 years the records are handed over to the archives and replaced in the archival subject groups. Thus each priest, each parish and each subject is allotted to the own bundle, growing from 1805. The archives are maintained by the Eger Archdiocesan Authority. The personnel consists of a single person, the above-named archivist. The archival material consists of 447 running metres. The so-called Archivum Vetus embraces beside the records of general church administration the archival subgroups of the ecclesiastical and laical foundations, of the instruction and schools, of monks and nuns, etc. from 1690 to 1805. The Archivum Novum contains personal and parish records and a series of registers from 1805 to 1950. Beside them the collection of canonical visitations from 1745 to 1831 has an outstanding source value. The records and journals of the Court Christian are found between 1650 and 1923 in the archives. For cultural history the material of the Diocesan Inspectorate of Schools (1850-1948) is important. The so-called secret archives preserve the nomination records of bishops and canons (1650-1945). There is a collection of the letters written in Hungarian to the bishop of Eger, Ferenc SZEGEDY, residing at Kassa (1668-1670), and another of the mixed and not registered papers of the archbishops Samassa, Szmrecsanyi and Czapik (1873-1945). We preserve the records of the Diocesan Audit Office from the years 1948 to 1950 only. Maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are kept in a separate collection. The archives preserve the records of the Eger Franciscan convent (16901900) and of the Eger convent of Mary Ward's nuns (1900-1948).