A timeline of the archive
Nine hundred years of building, counted. Every century holds what the register records for it — thin where the sources are thin, heavy where a country rebuilt itself.
- IX5 records
- X27 records
- XI128 records
- XII477 records
- XIII713 records
- XIV816 records
- XV1,766 records
- XVI2,345 records
- XVII2,434 records
- XVIII2,404 records
- XIX1,732 records
- XX312 records
- XXI2 records
A record dated to two centuries counts in both — a house begun in the 15th century and rebuilt in the 17th belongs to each. The bars therefore add up to more than the number of records, and the tallest bar sets the scale for the rest.