A Pest Megyei Levéltár. Levéltárismertető (Budapest, 2004)
Seventeen thousand meters of historical source/Introduction of the main archives
Archives in 1951. The medieval material of the economic archives were almost completely destroyed, what remained from this age are mainly copies which were produced later. The area of the Vác Episcopate covered several counties - Fejér, Csongrád, Nógrád, Pest, Szolnok and Visegrád -; its lands were in Csongrád, Nógrád, Pest and Szolnok counties, but in the medieval ages it owned areas in Somogy and Tolna counties, too. Except the area of the Vác episcopate, it belonged to the biggest dioceses. The significance of the source value of the economic archive is especially ensured by the fact that in the centre of I lungary it covers, a huge diocese area from the northern Nógrád County to the south until Szeged; what is more, the totality of it, or most of its parts belonged to the thraldom during the 16-17 th centuries, where lots of archives were destroyed, therefore this archive serves as the only source base for processing the history of these areas. The historical value of the archive is further increased by the fact that the episcopate had the right to collect decimate; it carried out the traditional religious, church governing, educational, cultural, social, etc. tasks, moreover because of its landowner function it was directing the owned land properties, it farmed on these areas and had to satisfy certain services (e.g. conscription). As a consequence of this wide range of activities the Vác Episcopate and its manor were connected to the church and civil authorities, governor council, chamber (later on financial directorates), counties and to the individual settlements via many ways. The archives of the manor are mainly auditorial documents. The documents of the auditors, the officials working in the centre of the manor in Vác (bailiffs, grieves, pantrymen, A váci Zöldfai malom tervrajza (1851) I Entwurf der Zöldfa-Mühle von Vác (1851) I Plan of the Zöldfa mill of Vác (18S1) 189
