These ancient documents that had been cherished by the successive heads of the Konoe family were donated in a few batches to Kyoto University Library following 1900 in the modern era.
これら歴代の近衛家当主によって守られてきた古文書類は、近代に入って明治33年（1900年）から数度に分けて京都大学附属図書館に寄託された。