Official library studies
The official records of customer deals with the administrative records in book form as a source of historical research . It is closely related to records and diplomacy .
The typology of the official registers is not yet fully developed. Important research branches of the official bibliography, the study of the city of books , the arable , the Kopialbüchern , the document registers , the invoices and the commercial books of account . Can be used as additional office book types are distinguished protocols , Nekrologien , fief books , citizen books , traditional books , court books , church records , which are important sources of personal history and genealogy , the economic history of the country's history or social history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period and are therefore often scientifically edited are , but have only seldom been examined typologically for their context of origin and intended use.
The book form as administrative documents prevailed in the high Middle Ages over the scrolls (rotulus) for list-like texts. Indexing instruments such as tables of contents and registers only became common at the end of the Middle Ages .
Book-shaped administrative documents are a pre-form of serial administrative work. From the 15th to the 18th century, the offices of the central and local authorities were often characterized by official books, in that the oral and written administrative acts were recorded in official books (protocols, incoming and outgoing books, journals). For serial administrative work, the card index prevailed in the 19th century , replacing many types of official registers, as perhaps most evident in the replacement of the volume catalogs in the libraries with card catalogs .
literature
- Hans Patze : New types of business documents in the 14th century , in: Ders. (Ed.), The German Territorial State in the 14th Century , Vol. 1 (Lectures and Researches 13), Sigmaringen 1970, Nachdr. 1986, pp. 9–64.
- Stefan Pätzold : Official books of the Middle Ages. Considerations on the status of your research . In: Archivalische Zeitschrift 81 (1998), pp. 87–111.
- Stefan Pätzold: Between archival practice and the cultural-historical paradigm: recent approaches in official registry research . In: Wilfried Reininghaus and Marcus Stumpf (eds.): Official books as sources of regional historical research (Westphalian sources and archive publications 27), Münster 2012. ISBN 978-3-936258-17-2 . Pp. 9-39.
- Josef Hartmann: Official Books. In: Friedrich Beck and Eckart Henning (eds.): The archival sources. An introduction to their use. 2nd ed., Weimar 1994 (publications from the Brandenburg State Main Archives 29), pp. 86–98.
- Gregor Richter: Stock books or land register doctrine. Auxiliary scientific basics according to Württemberg sources , Stuttgart 1979 (publications of the state archive administration Baden-Württemberg 36).