Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)
A Vasvár-Szombathelyi Székeskáptalan Levéltára (Vasvár-Szombathely Cathedral Chapter Archives)
A VASVÁR-SZOMBATHELYI SZÉKESKÁPTALAN LEVÉLTÁRA (VASVÁR-SZOMBATHELY CATHEDRAL CHAPTER ARCHIVES) 9701 SZOMBATHELY, Berzsenyi Dániel tér 3. (Pf. 41.) Tel. 12-056 Temporarily Dr. László PATAKI, episcopal chancellor is in charge of the archives The archives of the collegiate chapter, flourishing as early as in the thirteenth century at Vasvár, was transferred during the Turkish wars, in the second half of the sixteenth century to Szombathely, followed by the chapter itself in the seventeenth century. In 1777, parallel with the establishment of the Szombathely bishopric, the collegiate chapter has become a cathedral chapter. In course of an arrangement at about 1820 the archival material has been divided into two parts. The first part contained the records issued up to the end of the seventeenth century in chronological order. The second part, arranged according to estates, embraced the records issued from the end of the seventeenth century and a few records left out of the first part. In the 1910s an elenchus was added to the records of the first part by canon Gyula BERTALANFFY. The second part and the additional records were arranged by Ignác DESICS, the archivist of the chapter in the course of a continual work from 1894. During World War II the cathedral was hit by a severe bomb attack, in consequence of which the order of the archival material stored in one of the floors was partly mixed up. * The archival material totals 40 running metres. There are 276 charters before Mohács. The records issued up to the seventeenth century make a separate archival group still, mainly touching estate management. They illustrate the situation of the villains, their socage dues, their law-suits. The records later than the end of the seventeenth century are stored in "fontes" No. 1 to 115. The majority of this material is made up of records on estate management and various accounts. But there are also testaments (1700-1850), various foundations and their accounts (eighteenth to twentieth century), accounts of the diocesan seminary (1779-1885), acts of the
