Metadata: Municipal Archive of Miranda de Ebro
Collection
- Country:
- Spain
- Holding institution:
- Municipal Archive of Miranda de Ebro
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivo Municipal de Miranda de Ebro
- Postal address:
- Plaza España 8. 09200 – Miranda de Ebro
- Phone number:
- +34 947 349 117
- Web address:
- http://www.mirandadeebro.es
- Email:
- archivo@mirandadeebro.es
- Reference number:
- ES. 9219. AM
- Title:
- Municipal Archive of Miranda de Ebro
- Title (official language):
- Archivo Municipal de Miranda de Ebro
- Creator/accumulator:
- City council of Miranda de Ebro
- Date(s):
- 1237/2000
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
- Latin
- Hebrew
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The Municipal Archive of Miranda de Ebro is in charge of receiving, organizing, describing, and publicizing the documents related to the city and produced by the city council. The archive contains various documentary sources from the end of the thirteenth century that inform us about the local and regional history of Miranda de Ebro. This collection is made up of:
“Fondo municipal” (Municipal Collection). It is composed of the documents produced and received by the city council of Miranda de Ebro from the Middle Ages to the present day. This section contains medieval documentation such as royal privileges and orders, acknowledgment of debts, lawsuits, farming of royal and local taxes, etc.
“Fonoteca” (Audio Library). It is composed of audio tapes that record the municipal plenary sessions, since 1989.
“Videoteca” (Video Library). It is composed of DVDs that record the municipal plenary sessions, since 2005.
“Hemeroteca” (Newspaper Archive). It is composed of several newspapers that contain news from Miranda, and the Spanish Official Bulletins.
Information related to the Jews is contained in the medieval collection and is kept in the Municipal Collection. Most of the records are based on royal privileges and letters; some thirteenth century documents have Hebrew signatures. The following documents, among others, are preserved in this section: a letter on the meeting held by the judge of Miranda, the juries, and some “hombres buenos” and certain Jews to deal with the debts owed by Christians and borrowed from Jews (1294); a copy of a letter given by Sancho IV in which he confirms to the city council and villages of Miranda all the concessions made in the Cortes de Valladolid of 1293, including some provisions on debts and lawsuits related to Jews (1294); a letter on some disputes between the tax-collectors of a royal tax, on the one hand, and the judge of Miranda and certain Jews from Haro, on the other (1296); a letter given by Fernando IV that contains some provisions that regulate the relationship between Christians and Jews, mainly on debts (1304); a letter by Pedro I, in which he gives a guarantee to the residents of Miranda de Ebro, so that they return to inhabit there (1360); a copy of a letter by Alfonso XI of 1335 addressed to all the municipal councils of the kingdom, in which the rights and privileges of the Jews from Haro are established (1363); a letter by Enrique II, in which he extends by two years the deadline to pay debts owed to the Jews in Miranda (1367); a letter by the city council of Miranda asking the authorities of the village of Briones for guarantors for the debts owed by Christians from Miranda to Jews from Vitoria and Salinas (1380).
- Archival history:
- In 1938, the city council of Miranda de Ebro was in charge of the organization of the Municipal Archive. In 1984, the notary collections were segregated and delivered to the Provincial Historical Archive of Burgos.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Municipal Archive of Miranda de Ebro preserves all documents produced and received by the city council of Miranda de Ebro from the medieval period to the present day.
- 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:
- An inventory of the collection is available at the archive. 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; March 2020
