Unusual Documentation from a University Archive

Abstract

The article presents the documentation that are in the Salamanca University Archives but that has not been produced by the University, indicating the reason why they have arrived there, concluding that in the majority of cases these are documents or archives that although they have another producer are intimately related to the university, since they have arrived there as a consequence of its activity or by the action of one of its members. The author insists on the need to individualize these documents differentiating those of the university archival fond, and to use the history of the archive as a tool to carry out this work well, especially the part referring to the production and accumulation of those non-university documents that are part of it, without which it will not be possible to know their existence, their authentic context and the totality of their informative value.