Here we preserve all the documents generated by the Barcelona municipal authority since it was created in the mid-13th century to the beginning of the 19th century. It also contains other sets of documents which, while they were not generated by the municipal authority, bear witness to the historical activity of Barcelona residents.
These include a range of different types of documents such as auques, art exhibition catalogues, goigs and other religious sheets, engravings, cotton prints, maps, Barcelona street maps and floor plans, playing cards and romanços.
Constituted in October 1983 with the donation by the English researcher Ronald Fraser, and with a dual purpose: to preserve the oral materials from historical and research sources recorded and transcribed on sound supports, and to develop projects for collecting similar sources.
