Apuntes para una historia de los archivos en Navarra [Notes for a history of Navarre’s archives]

Abstract

This article is a summary of the history of Navarre’s archives: the archive of its ancient kings, those of the medieval monasteries, the archive of Pamplona Cathedral, parish and municipal archives; the first known inventory, of 1328, and the archive of the Cámara de Comptos; that of the Royal Courts of Justice, which, in 1559, had the first archivist; the notarial archives and that of the ecclesiastical curia; the organisation and inventories carried out in the archives of Comptos and the Law Courts in the 18th century. Reference is then made to the archive of the Kingdom, to Yanguas and Miranda, Navarre’s first «modern» archivist; the viceregal archive and those of the institutions of the liberal state; the attempt to...