The article deals with the localization of private noblemen’s archives in the 16th century. It was established that the places for the preserved documents had been determined by the size of the archive, its owner’s social and property position, and security. The noblemen who had the biggest archives kept them in their brick and wooden residences, in urban brick houses. The rest of the noblemen kept their archives in their patrimonial wooden manors and brick houses in towns. The documents were kept in cellars of masonries, store–rooms, light rooms, garners of manors and barns. If noblemen did not have a proper guard, they confided their papers to wealthier noblemen, relatives and sometimes to ordinary citizens. The preserved papers were kept in various chests and caskets, boxes and very small boxes, bags and sacks, offices. In the 16th century the most popular way of preserving papers was keeping them in wooden painted chests and boxes coated with iron, made by local masters. The culture of preserving noblemen’s archives was not of a high level in the 16th century. Though the accumulated papers were a question of vital importance, bigger investment had not been allotted for preserving them. The poor preservation of papers is one of the reasons why we have a comparatively small amount of the 16th century documents nowadays.

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