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This dimension sorts historical documents by their basic type, a treaty, a diary, a manuscript or an official record. Wikipedia notes that a primary source can be "an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information." Browsing by document type keeps documents of the same kind grouped together.

Document Type

Act of Parliament

Acts of Parliament

Administrative land survey record

Armistice

Bilateral non-aggression pact with secret protocol

Bilateral peace and territorial-cession treaty

Bilateral peace treaty

Bilateral territorial-division treaty

Bilateral trade and intercourse agreement

Bilateral treaty

Charter of privileges

Civil code

Coded diplomatic telegram

Collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence

Conference protocol

Constitutional amendment

Declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly

Declaration of independence

decree

Dedication speech

diplomatic agreement

Diplomatic correspondence archive (clay tablets)

Diplomatic declaration (public letter)

diplomatic note

Diplomatic protocol

edict

Foreign policy doctrine

Founding self-governance compact

Founding treaty

Human and civil rights declaration

Imperial edict of toleration

Inscribed limestone tablet

Inscribed royal decree (trilingual granodiorite stele)

Instrument of surrender

Intergovernmental agreement (treaty)

Intergovernmental collective security agreement

International treaty

International treaty on climate change

Joint statement

king list

Legal text

Legal text (Dharmashastra)

Legislation (Roman law code)

Letter (petition to the pope)

List of propositions for an academic disputation

memorandum

Monumental autobiographical inscription

Multilateral peace settlement (two treaty instruments)

Multilateral treaty

Multilingual royal rock inscription and relief

National constitution

Nuclear-weapon-free zone treaty

Oral law recorded in wampum belts

Ordinance

pact

Pamphlet

Peace agreement (a pair of linked agreements)

Peace treaty

Peace treaty (series)

Preliminary and secret treaty

Presidential proclamation and executive order

Proclamation

Rock and pillar inscriptions (edicts)

Royal commemorative inscription (basalt stele)

Royal inscription (clay cylinder)

Secret treaty

Speech setting out a statement of principles for peace

stele

Stele (fragmentary inscription)

Stele fragment (Royal Annals)

telegram

Treaty

Treaty (agreement ending the Russo-Persian War)

Treaty ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829

Treaty of peace

Treaty of protection

Unequal treaty