Donation and deposit of funds

Private archives

In 1993, the conservation and dissemination of private archives in the Basque Country began with the aim of safeguarding and making archives that were difficult to access available for research. Families or individuals deposit the documents at the Foundation's headquarters for their organisation and digitisation and, once the process has been completed, the originals are returned to their owners together with a copy of the catalogue and the digitised images of the documents. It is therefore a beneficial agreement for the owners, who do not want to lose the archives, understood as movable property attached to their legacy, and for the Foundation, as the owners cede the rights of dissemination to put them at the service of research.

Personal libraries

Only collections on Basque themes and authors that do not already form part of the catalogue of the Fundación Sancho el Sabio Fundazioa will be accepted.

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