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How the research was done

This page publishes where the search was carried out and what it returned, including what it did not return. It is the same register that until now could only be read by downloading a data file.

A negative result does not say that something does not exist: it says that it does not appear in that repository, at that scope and on that date. That is why every query carries its limit, and every closed or pending repository carries the condition under which it would be reopened.

Why this page is in two languages at once

The frame — headings, labels and vocabulary — is translated. The terms searched for, the description of each collection and the limits are reproduced exactly as they were recorded, almost always in Spanish. A query put to an archive is the string that was typed, and translating it would make it impossible to reproduce; and translating the limit of a result without reviewing it again would be asserting in another language something that has not been checked here.

The register in two figures

The repositories

Where the search was made, who holds the collection and how the search was left.

Exhausted, with results · 11

Exhausted · 17

Set aside for noise · 2

Pending · 12

Inaccessible · 3

The queries

What exactly was searched for, at what scope, how far the result was reviewed and what it does not allow anyone to claim.

Positive · 8

No discriminating positive · 19

Noise · 9

Pending · 12

Inaccessible · 3

Take it whole

The complete register as data, and the two reports documenting the Arabic trail.

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