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The general director of Cultural Property, Francisco Gimenez, today presented the Deputy Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Montiel, the sixteenth-century records chapter and press the nineteenth and twentieth restored in Paper Restoration Laboratory.
Also, given the historical documents appeared in the wall of the Castillo de Lorca after the earthquakes that have also been restored.
The Chapter Acts of 1540 and 1541 are presented and stains, insect attack, tears, ink oxidation and loss of support.
The CEO noted the importance of these documents as "constitute, together with the municipal, administrative documents most relevant to the Castilian councils. Upon registration of the resolutions adopted by the local governing bodies are essential and have great value reconstruction of everyday life. "
Lorca municipal archives preserved in a large number of minute books, which have their beginning in June 1474.
Its historical importance has been scanning through Crimson Project, more than a hundred already be consulted on the Internet.
Also it has delivered 19 copies of the newspaper 'Democrat' in the years 1894 to 1901, and a copy of a copy of 'The Balance "in 1893, which have been digitized in the Archivo General to hang them on the Internet through the project Crimson.
Gimenez said the vast number of titles of periodicals appearing at this time and said "the difficulties of conservation of the press because of the poor quality of paper used, the poor conditions in which generally has been preserved and limited consideration, until recently , as a basic document for the knowledge of culture and history, which has greatly facilitated an accelerated deterioration, if not its destruction. "
In this regard, he stressed "the importance of proceeding to scan to prevent loss of interesting information and for easy reference on the Internet".
Documents published in the castle of Lorca
The Ministry of Culture has proceeded to the description and management of documents appearing in the emergency works excavation undertaken in the tower of the Ram and the walls of the Castillo de Lorca to repair the damage caused by earthquakes.
These works have uncovered a set of documents highly fragmented within the landfill within a stretch of wall mixed with rocks, dirt, bricks and waste material, along with other unusual materials (two baskets of straw and a piece of cloth).
In total, 303 pieces of paper that were deposited in the General Archive of the Region of Murcia which have been described and discussed in the paper restoration laboratory.
The documentary fragments identified have extreme dates April 1622 to January 1903, although most-according to the type of writing, can be dated to the eighteenth century.
Almost everyone who retain the data are dated Lorca topical or reference to that city, although there are references to some characters in the town of Baza (Granada).
In general, the documents are small, fragmented and its conservation is poor.
These requests and orders to various judicial and administrative magistrates of Lorca, accounting documents.
The most likely belonged to a file or collection of private papers of a high class family lorquina preserved in any home or building in the city whose demolition materials could be reused to fill the section of the wall.
Despite its poor state of preservation, the fragments can identify some prominent figures of society lorquina eighteenth century, as the chronicler Fray Pedro Morote, corregidores Jose de Castro and Valcárcel and Antonio Collado Torcuato, council Pedro José de Egea and Juan Antonio Garcia Mula and Seron, the notary José Antonio Moreno Benavente and others with names of illustrious families of the local oligarchy, as Mecca or Saravia Alarcón.
Source: CARM
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