Archives

Archives with material on Galicia are to be found within and beyond the borders of the region. There does not exist a survey of all archives that contain material on Galicia, although for some of them there are useful descriptions.

Besides these centralized provincial archives, L’viv as well as each of the major cities and towns had their own archives with municipal records going back in some cases to the thirteenth century. Each of the churches-Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, and Armenian Catholic-also had its own archive. Finally, in 1939, during the first Soviet administration of Galicia, the archival system was reorganized. The Polish State Archive became the basis for what, after various name changes and mergers, has been known since 1958 as the Central State Historical Archive (Tsentral’nyi Derzhavnyi Istorychnyi Arkhiv URSR u L’vovi).

As is evident from the above sketch, the fate of archives in Galicia has been deeply affected by the several political changes that have taken place in the twentieth century. The archival system under Austrian rule is described in B. Dudik’s extensive survey of all archives in Galicia;^[50] in Aleksander Czolowski’s study of archives in L’viv;^[51] and in more detail analyses of holdings in the

Bernardine Archive,⁶¹ the Archive of the Galician Viceroys (now both part of the Central State Historical Archive in L’viv),⁶² and the Archive of the L’viv City Magistracy (whose holdings are now split between the Central Historical and L’viv Oblast Archives).⁶³ Galician archives in interwar Poland are described by Eugeniusz Barwinski and Edward Chwalewik⁶⁴ and there are also specific de­scriptions and catalogs for collections in the Polish State Archive and City Archive in L’viv,⁶⁵ as well as for the municipal archives in Przemysl and Jaro-

61 The introduction to the initial volume of Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasow Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z archiwum tak zwanego Bernardyhskiego we Lwowie, vol. I (L’viv 1868), pp.v-xxii, contains a history and survey of the holdings, supplemented in the introductions to vols XI­XXIII (L’viv 1886-1928), and in Oktaw Liske and Xawery Liske, Spis oblat zawartych w aktach grodu i ziemstwa twowskiego, in vol. X (L’viv 1884). See also Stefan Sochaniewicz, “Archiwum krajowe aktow grodzkich i ziemskich we Lwowie,” Przewodnik Naukowy i Literacki, XL (L’viv 1912), pp. 835-848, 927-944, and 1024-1046-and separately (L’viv 1912); Przemyslaw Dobkowski, “Krajowe Archiwum Akt Grodzkich i Ziemskich we Lwowie” and “Archiwum Krajowe Akt Grodzkich i Ziemskich,” in his Poktosie z dwudziestu lat pracy naukowej zebrane 1897-1916 (L’viv: p.a. 1917); and Eugeniusz Barwihski, Repertorium znajdujgcych siq w Bibliotece Universyteckiej we Lwowie aktow zaj^cia i sprzedazy dobr krolewskich i koscielnych (L’viv 1909)- transferred to Bernardine Archive.

62 Alojzy Winiarz, “Z dziejow archiwum Namiestnictwa we Lwowie,” Przewodnik Naukowy i Literacki, XXXVIII (L’viv 1910) pp. 55-61, 145-163; and idem,” Archiwum Namiestnictwa we Lwowie,” ibid., XXXVII (L’viv 1909), pp. 566-576, 659-672.

63 Karol Widmann, “Wiadomosc o Archiwum miasta Lwowa,” Przeglqd Archeologiczny, I (L’viv 1882), pp. 44-72; II (1883), pp. 73-107; III (1883), pp. 66-101-and separately (L’viv: p.a. 1882).

64 Eugene Barwihski, “Les archives en Petite Pologne orientale,” Bulletin de l’Union des societes savantes polonaises de Leopol, no. 11-12 (L’viv 1931), pp. 1-32-also separately (L’viv 1932); Edward Chwalewik, Zbiory polskie: archiwa, bibljoteki, gabinety, galerje, muzea i inne zbiory pamiqtek przesztosci w ojczyznie i na obczyznie, 2 vols (Warsaw: J. Mortkowicz 1926-27), especially vol. I, pp. 367-376.

See also the comprehensive directory to the varying kinds of archival records produced in pre-partition Poland with data on their location during the interwar years in Stanislaw Kutrzeba, Historia irodel dawnego prawa polskiego, 2 vols (L’viv, Warsaw, and Cracow: ZNIO 1925-26). On the early municipal records of L’viv, see Karol Badecki, “Zaginione ksiggi sredniowiecznego Lwowa: studjum rekonstrukcyjne,” Kwartalnik Historyczny, XLI (L’viv 1927), pp. 519-579-also separately (L’viv: Gmina miasta 1927).

65 On the State Archive, see Przemyslaw Dobkowski, Katalog dawnych aktow sqdowych polskich wojewodztwa ruskiego i belskiego przechowywanych w Archiwum Pahstwowem we Lwowie, pt 1 (L’viv: Towarzystwo Naukowe 1937). On the City Archive, see Karol Badecki, “Archiwum miasta Lwowa: jego stan obecny oraz potrzeby reorganizacyjne, inwentaryzacyjne i wydawnicze,” Archeion, XII (Warsaw 1934), pp. 77-200-and separately (Warsaw 1934); and two volumes of a planned eight-volume catalog: Karol Badecki, ed., Archiwum Akt Dawnych miasta Lwowa: A. Oddzial staropolski, vol. Ill: Ksi^gi i akta administracyjno-sqdowe, 1382- slaw.^{[52] [53]} Also, the archives of the Roman Catholic church (the Archdiocese and Cathedral Chapter in L’viv) and the Armenian Catholic church-both now part of the Central State Historical Archive in L’viv-are described in studies from the early 1930s.^[54]

The Soviets have prepared guides to the present-day L’viv Oblast State Ar­chive and its formerly separate branch in Sambir.^[55] There is no guide for the important Central State Historical Archive, only brief general descriptions and a catalog of its parchment collection.^[56] Invaluable introductions to all archives in Galicia, describing their historical development and present-day composition, are provided by Patricia K.

The other great repository for the history of Galicia is Vienna, the former imperial capital of Austria-Hungary. Materials on political, economic, religious, and cultural developments in the province, most especially between 1772 and 1918, are found in the Haus- Hof- und Staatsarchiv in Vienna. General descrip­tions of the Viennese holdings on Galicia are to be found in the appropriate sections of Ludwig Bittner’s multivolume survey of the Haus- Hof- und Staatsar­chiv and in an article by Janusz Wolinski and Zbigniew Wojcik.^[58] Warsaw, Cracow, Kiev, Budapest, and the Vatican also have much archival material, although there are no published descriptions relating specifically to Galician materials. Many documents from these archives have been published, however, as indicated below.^[59]