Szotyori-Nagy Ágnes (szerk.): A Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum Közleményei 2011-2012 (Budapest, 2012)
Tanulmányok - Takáts Rózsa: Céhes kézműipar forrásai a Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeumban II. Iratok
Sources of guild-organised handicraft industries in the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture. Part II. Documents RÓZSA TAKÁTS The Historical Papers collection of our museum, which keeps nearly 10,000 items of different historical source value, includes about 130 documents related to the handicraft industries of guilds. These represent different branches concerning agriculture, raw materials and products. This paper presents those documents that are directly related to the foundation, internal functioning and regulations of these organisations. In the order of importance, the most valuable are letters patent (five charters, an apprentice regulation), a guild book from Baranya and Somogy Counties, and also remarkable are the eighteen certificates and two journeyman’s permits. The remaining documents related to the history of handicrafts are of less importance. These include pleas, licences, limitations as well as bills concerning the work of masters; a further twenty documents connected to guild management (applications, contracts), but the collection also contains three documents detailing national or local regulations of general guild rules. Due to constraints of space, the latter types are not presented in this paper. The documents reviewed in this study date from between 1611 and 1872, therefore they give an insight into various periods of the trade history of guilds. Among the original documents some are embedded into the main text, while others (such as the charter of the button-makers guild of Pápa from 1676) are in the appendix and can be read in their entirety. 73
