Metadata: 1. City Council Collection
Collection
- Country:
- Spain
- Holding institution:
- Municipal Archive of Cordoba
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivo Municipal de Cordoba
- Postal address:
- Calle Sanchez de Feria 6. 14003 - Cordoba
- Phone number:
- +34 957 203 570
- Web address:
- http://www.ayuncordoba.es/archivo
- Email:
- archivo@ayuncordoba.es
- Reference number:
- ES. 14021. AM
- Title:
- 1. City Council Collection
- Title (official language):
- 1. Fondo del concejo
- Creator/accumulator:
- City council of Cordoba
- Date(s):
- 1241/1924
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
- Extent:
- 5,978 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains documents produced and received by the city council of Cordoba between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries.
The documentary fonds is classified in the following sections:
1. “Fuero, privilegios, acontecimientos reales y documentation miscelanea” (city charter, royal privileges, royal proclamations and miscellaneous documents). This section contains the Fuero of Cordoba (city charter) (1241/1772), royal privileges (1242/1911), royal proclamations (1295/1874), castles and fortresses (1404/1870), and military preparations and weapons (1265/1874).
2. "Antiguo regimen politico-administrativo” (Ancient political-administrative regime). This section gathers documents related to the old local and territorial organization, positions, and public offices. The documentary type is diverse: royal provisions and certificates, judgments, orders, etc.
3. “Relaciones con la Iglesia” (Relations with the Church). This section contains documents of the relations between the local power and the religious authorities. 4. “Arqueologia” (Archeology). This group includes documents related to monuments and significant buildings in the city.
5. “Patrimonio municipal” (Municipal patrimony). Documents dealing with the real estate of the city council: rural and urban properties and financial matters (income and rents). These are deeds of rent, purchase, and sale.
6. “Agricultura, industria y comercio” (Agriculture, industry, and commerce). Documents related to the productive sectors include royal provisions and privileges, lawsuits concerning communal meadows, farmhouses, pastures, etc.
7. “Policia urbana y rural” (Urban and rural police).
8. “Obras y urbanismo” (Works and urbanism).
9. “Beneficencia, sanidad y asistencia social” (Charity, health, and social assistance).
10. “Educacion” (Education).
11. “Elecciones” (Elections).
12. “Estadisticas” (Statistics). This section contains diverse documentation: boundaries of the towns of Cordoba, rural properties of the city council, etc.
13. “Organos de gobierno” (Government bodies). This section contains royal resolutions, royal and local dispositions, ordinances, and city council minutes (1479/1979).
14. “Hacienda” (Finance). Documents related to the income of the city council.
15. “Personal” (Personnel). Documents related to city council’s staff (1413/1873).
16. “Justicia” (Justice). This section contains documents from courts of law (royal provisions and judgments (1402/1824), as well as civil (1399/1813) and criminal (1407/1857) lawsuits.
17. “Asuntos gubernativos” (Government affairs).
18. “Servicios prestados al Estado” (Services rendered to the State). This section contains tax documents concerning Royal or Public finance (“tercias reales”, “alcabalas”, “moneda forera”, etc.).
19. “Escribania/Secretaria” (Notary). The city council notary was managed by two public scribes or notaries. Public deeds of purchase and sale are preserved (1331/1926).
20. “Servicios” (Services). Contains provisions and files on butchers (1401/1929).
21. “Cultura” (Culture).
Along with the main sections, three factitious sections have been created, among which stands out the “Pergaminos” section, composed of 62 parchments dated between 1241 and 1774.
Concerning Jews, several royal provisions are preserved. Some of them are related to conflicts between the Christian and Jewish population of Cordoba. For instance, a royal provision of 1396 informs about a robbery in the Jewish quarter, and another, of 1404, reports that a Christian mob occasioned deaths and destruction in the Jewish quarter.
- Archival history:
- The archive of the city council of Cordoba has been documented since 1327. Originally, the documents were kept in the Convent of San Pablo. In the seventeenth century, the archive took on an administrative dimension. This fact caused its distribution to different facilities: the historical archive continued in the Convent of San Pablo, while a room was provided within the city hall for the administrative documents. The transfer of the historical archive to the city hall was presumably carried out after the so-called Spanish confiscation of 1835, when Church lands were seized by the State. Once all the municipal documentation was gathered in the city hall, the archive was installed nearby, in a room next to the Mayor's office. In 1878, it was moved, again close by, to the Casa de la Palma, and it remained there up to 1969. Since then, the archive, together with the municipal library, is located in the Casa de los Guzmanes.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Municipal Archive of Cordoba gathers the documents of the rights, obligations, and various events that occurred in Cordoba, represented and managed by its city council. Old and modern documents, written on parchment or paper; manuscripts; typescript texts; and photos and video, are kept in the archive, and they record the history of the city.
- Access, restrictions:
- Free access regulated by the current legal environment on access to Spanish historical archives (law 16/1985 of Spanish Historical Patrimony).
- Finding aids:
- Data on the collection are also available at the website of the Spanish National Archives (PARES).
- Links to finding aids:
- https://pares.culturaydeporte.gob.es/inicio.html
- Yerusha Network member:
- Spanish National Research Council
- Author of the description:
- Marina Girona Berenguer; ILC, CSIC; August 2020
