What are archives and manuscripts?
Learn more about what archives and manuscripts really are.
What is an archive?
An archive is an amount of records with a cohesive trait, and is usually created as an integrated part of the work of an organisation, a company, an association, or a private individual. The body or person creating an archive is called an archive holder. The archives preserved bu Kvinnsam and the Manuscript section at the Gothenburg university library are considered to be of particular interest to research and cultural heritage, and has an archive holder who is either a person or an association. This means they constitute private archives, and that principles of public access to official records and restricted confidential information do not apply to them - they are not public records.
What is a manuscript?
A manuscript is a handwritten or copied original. Manuscript come in many different forms. The notion covers everything from books before the time of printing, to typewritten documents. The trait they share is that they were neither printed nor published before the time they were made.