Sources on Municipal Documentation and the Archive of the Town of Madrid. Books of Acts, Information Diffusion and Documentary Conservation
Abstract
This article analyzes Books of Inventories, Registers and Acts from the late Middle Ages pertaining to the Town Archive of Madrid. Here they are used to study coeval aspects referring to the municipal documentation itself (it being archived or not) and to the chapter’s archives. The Books of Acts are the main object of this analysis, allowing the study of the daily use of the Council’s scripts in their living context and administrative reality, i.e.: who kept these documents, and when and how disperse materiel was recuperated. Observation of these sources renders more information regarding municipal documentation in use than archived documentation or the archive itself. This disparity is brought to light in order to suggest reasons for this difference.
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