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The Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities, the Ministry of Finance, the City of Cartagena, Murcia University and the College of Notaries of Murcia today signed an agreement that beginning is given to the restoration and recovery 28 volumes of notarial protocols Cartagena sixteenth century documents that have for decades without being able to be consulted.
This documentary heritage consists of 28 volumes, each of 300 sheets, 600 pages.
Also, each of the notarial documents of the time comes to take about four pages, so that the estimate of researchers is to collect more than 4,000 writings.
This documentation has great anthropological value, as it serves to describe many facets of life of Cartagena from this time and activity.
They can also be surprises and unique documents on personalities of the time they are to unveil the research and later made available to the whole society.
The content of each of these writings is unknown, since these volumes were not in consultation poor condition.
They can pick up any kind of social and commercial activity, and that at the time were used notaries to register houses or land, wills, contracts apprentices sale of animals, contracts for construction of altars, artwork or even exchange slaves.
Comprehensive and pioneering work
The work to be performed is a pioneer when approached in a holistic manner and with an interdisciplinary team of experts.
Develop archivists work, restorers paper, historians, chemists and digitizers, which carried out the restoration, description, historical study of the notarial institution in Cartagena, chemical analysis of the paper and inks used and the digitization of documents for make them available to all citizens via the Internet.
The restore process of each of the books begins with desencuadernarlos to individually address each of the sheets of paper that compose it, which are subjected to washing to remove impurities.
Later paper losses that are in the holder, on a craft and meticulous process that culminates with the binding, using the same format sewing originally had reintegrated.
Source: CARM
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