CEM - Collection Tomás Maza Solano in C.E.M.

Tomás Maza Solano

First official chronicler of the city of Santander

It has been one of the persons of reference in the cultural development of the Cantabrian community throughout the twentieth century,,es,with clear projection to the XXI century,,es,whose revenues can be said to still live in much the current period,,es,He was a founding member of the Center for Studies and Highlanders from our institution participating in major museum projects and documentaries from his century,,es,Although it is a lesser-known aspect of his biography,,es,As a third destination of the documentary regarding Tomás Maza Solano should be cited,,es,minutes and other various roles related to the varied dynamics of the entity,,es, con proyección clara hasta el siglo XXI, de cuyos réditos puede afirmarse que aún vive en buena parte el período actual. Fue miembro fundador del Centro de Estudios Montañeses y participante desde nuestra institución en los grandes proyectos museológicos y documentales de su centuria. Not having developed more cultural activities would be remembered, for example, for their studies and dissemination of the contents of the Cadastre of the Marquis of Ensenada corresponding to the territory of Cantabria, one of the many fields relevant documentary that worked for decades.

Aunque se trata de un aspecto menos conocido de su biografía, by focus more on cultural management and research, It was the first official chronicler of the City of Santander that have news.

The file available to it at home, in which coincided his death his personal funds with others of different ownerships with whom he was working is dispersed in several destinations, entre los que son destacables el Museo Marítimo del Cantábrico, donde se encuentra la colección reunida y conservada por José Luis Casado Soto y el Archivo Histórico de Cantabria; en ambas colecciones existen, y no son escasos, fondos sobre los que el Centro de Estudios Montañeses sigue manteniendo la titularidad, que D. Tomás utilizaba hasta poco antes de su fallecimiento en 1975. Como tercer destino de los fondos documentales en relación con Tomás Maza Solano debe citarse la Mountaineers headquarters Studies Center, where epistolary documentation kept, actas y otros papeles diversos relacionados con la variada dinámica de la entidad. For an overview of these documents and the cultural history of our protagonist we refer to the volume published for the 75 Mountaineers anniversary Studies Center and his biography, published in the number 79 of the magazine Altamira

Here we will be making available to interested researchers documentation romances collected and studied in the early decades of the twentieth century were the basis for the great work on the popular ballads of Cantabria made Tomás Maza Solano with José María de Cossio,,es,Documents collected in fieldwork by T.M.S,,es,and available in digital format,,es, publicada en 2 tomes years 1933 and 1934 with the title Ballads popular Mountain. Collection of traditional romances.

Documentos recogidos en trabajos de campo por T.M.S. y disponibles en soporte digital:

Romances and religious prayers

Historic profane and novelistic Romances

petitioning romances: Marzas, Easter, Cantos de Reyes; Commandments and Sacraments of Love.

Romances copied to the Ballads Montanes.

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File catalog of Jeronimos monastery of St. Catherine of Monte Corban 1936

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Studies on Cadastre of Ensenada in Cantabria:

Nobility, Hidalguía, Professions and Trades in the Mountain (Registers)

Volume 1 (1953). Alfoz Lloredo – Iguña

Volume 2 (1956). LAMASÓN – Rionansa