muniment room

noun

: a storage room for preservation of family or sometimes official or parochial records, papers, notebooks

old manuscript treasures accumulated during the centuries in the muniment rooms of most of the noble and ancient families of Britain

—St. Vincent Troubridge

cobwebby old muniment rooms

—R. D. Altick

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