Tomás Maza Solano Collection at the C.E.M.

Tomas Maza Solano

First Official Chronicler of the city of Santander

He has been one of the reference people in the cultural development of the Cantabrian community throughout the 20th century., with clear projection until the 21st century, of whose revenues it can be said that a good part of the current period is still alive. He was a founding member of the Center for Mountain Studies and a participant from our institution in the great museological and documentary projects of his century.. If he had not developed more cultural activities he would be remembered, For example, for his studies and dissemination of the contents of the Marqués de la Ensenada Cadastre corresponding to the territory of Cantabria, one of the many relevant documentary fields in which he worked for decades.

Although this is a less known aspect of his biography, for dedicating more to cultural management and research, He was the first Official Chronicler of the City of Santander that we have news of..

The file you had at your home, in which at his death his personal funds coincided with others of different ownership with whom he was working, are dispersed in various destinations, among which the Cantabrian Maritime Museum is notable, where the collection assembled and preserved by José Luis Casado Soto and the Historical Archive of Cantabria is located; in both collections there are, and they are not scarce, funds over which the Center for Montañes Studies continues to maintain ownership, that D. Until shortly before his death, Tomás used 1975. As a third destination of the documentary collections in relation to Tomás Maza Solano, we must mention the headquarters of the Center for Mountain Studies, where epistolary documentation is preserved, minutes and other various papers related to the varied dynamics of the entity. For a global vision of these documents and the cultural trajectory of our protagonist, we refer to the volume published on the occasion of the 75 Anniversary of the Center for Montañese Studies and his biography, published in the number 79 from the magazine Altamira

On this page we will make available to interested researchers the documentation on the romances collected and studied in the first decades of the 20th century that served as the basis for the great work that Tomás Maza Solano made together with José María de Cossío on the popular romance of Cantabria., published in 2 we take the years 1933 y 1934 with the title Popular ballads from La Montaña. Collection of traditional romances.

Documents collected in field work by T.M.S. and available in digital format:

Notes for the popular ballads of the province of Santander

Religious romances and prayers

Historical and fictional secular romances

Petitional romances: Marzas, Easter, Songs of Kings; Commandments and Sacraments of Love.

Romances copied in the Romancero Montañés.

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Catalog of the archive of the old Jerónimos de Santa Catalina de Monte Corbán monastery 1936

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Studies on the Ensenada Cadastre in Cantabria:

Nobility, Nobility, Professions and Trades in the Mountains (Registers)

Volume 1 (1953). Alfoz de Lloredo – Iguna