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In diplomatic and archival usage, a list of documents arranged chronologically together with either a brief summary of their contents or complete transcripts - or some combination of the two. A good calendar was indexed and each entry gave the location of the originals. Calendars were first developed in the embryonic bureaucracies of the medieval period to facilitate access to the contents of otherwise scattered original documents such as treaties, despatches, and letters. A well-known example of this kind of calendar is the Gascon Calendar of 1322. Subsequently they were produced in some countries to make the contents of the originals known to historians who were unable to inspect them at first hand. The multivolume Calendar of State Papers, Venetian, is a notable example of a calendar designed for this purpose. This was officially published in Britain between the middle of the nineteenth and the middle of the twentieth century and contains summaries in English of Venetian diplomatic papers bearing on English affairs from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century. |
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