Calendar of documents

How it is used

Here calendar is a research aid; summaries may omit wording crucial to an argument.

Example sentences

1. The calendar of documents helped locate letters about the border dispute.

   Chronology and summaries guide the search through many records.

2. She checked the manuscript after consulting the calendar of documents.

   A summary guides discovery but does not replace the source's wording.

Common collocations

• consult a calendar of documents
• compile a calendar of documents

Related terms

• archiveA collection of historical records kept for long-term use, or the building or institution where such records are stored and made available to researchers.
• chronologyThe order in which events happened, or a list or table that sets out events and their dates in that order.

More terms: Sources and Archives

• primary source
• secondary source
• manuscript
• bias
• census
• chronicle
• source criticism
• oral history
• inscription
• provenance
• archivist
• palaeography