Fonds HR-DADU-72 - Cancellaria Capetanatus de Zaptat (Chancellery of the captaincy in Cavtat)

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Reference code

HR-DADU-72

Title

Cancellaria Capetanatus de Zaptat (Chancellery of the captaincy in Cavtat)

Date(s)

  • 1690-1695, 1625-1626 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

2 volumes; 0.4 linear metres; textual records

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Archival history

The lower judicial and administrative authorities of the Dubrovnik Republic were organized in two types of administrative units: captaincies and districts. The size of the territory and the number of captaincies and districts changed throughout history according to the needs and discretion of the authorities of the Dubrovnik Republic. There were eleven administrative units in the 18th century: eight districts and three captaincies. Cavtat was joined to the Dubrovnik commune in 1427. The captain in Cavtat also served as a judge and, similar to other local rectors and captains, was not empowered to pass sentences for the most serious crimes.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

The fonds has been linked to the archive since its inception. In the times of the Dubrovnik Republic, the books of the fonds were stored at the Chancellery of the captaincy in Cavtat and were, by 1891, transferred to the Rector’s Palace, when the archives were consolidated and were made available to researchers. The archive in the Rector's Palace has been functioning as an independent institution since 1920 and it was dislocated to the Sponza Palace in 1952, where it is still located today.

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Scope and content

There are no references to Jews in the fonds.
The fonds consists of registers of the Chancellery of the captaincy in Cavtat from the 17th century. The registers mainly consist of so-called documents for various purposes, among which there are primarily written texts of public proclamations, notices, evidentiary proceedings for court investigations and judgments.

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Conditions governing access

The fonds is fully accessible to researchers in accordance with the Ordinance on the work in the reading room of the State Archives in Dubrovnik and the Law on Archival Materials and Archives NN 61/18 (Pravilnik o radu u čitaonici Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku and Zakon o arhivskom gradivu i arhivima NN 61/18).

Conditions governing reproduction

Taking photographs and scanning are allowed, for a fee.

Language of material

  • Italian

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Paper. The archival material is well preserved.

Finding aids

Građa za generalni katalog Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku, box 18, folder 21.

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Existence and location of originals

State Archives in Dubrovnik

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Related units of description

Consilium Maius (HR-DADU-2), Consilium Rogatorum (HR-DADU-3), Consilium Minus (HR-DADU-4), Diplomata et Acta (HR-DADU-7.3), Diversa Notariae (HR-DADU-9), Testamenta et Legata Notariae (HR-DADU-12), Pacta matrimonialia (HR-DADU-13), Diversa Cancellariae (HR-DADU-15), Lamenta Criminalia (HR-DADU-20), and Lamenta de criminali (HR-DADU-21).

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Publication note

Nella Lonza, Pod plaštem pravde, Kaznenopravni sustav Dubrovačke Republike u XVIII. stoljeću (Summary: Criminal Justice in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Dubrovnik), Dubrovnik: Zavod za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku, 1997. Konstantin Vojnović, »Sudbeni ustroj Republike dubrovačke.« Rad JAZU 105 (1891): 1-48; 108 (1892): 99-181; 114 (1893): 159-220; 115 (1893): 1-36. Nenad Vekarić, »Sud Janjinske kapetanije.« (Summary: The Court of Janjina Captaincy) Anali Zavoda za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku 27 (1989): 133-147.

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Old reference code

Fonds of the Dubrovnik Republic and the territory of the former Republic under the French Administration, series 88

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Rules and/or conventions used

Descriptions of fonds, series and sub-series are made according to the ISAD (G) standard (general international standard archival description)

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Dates of creation revision deletion

2021

Language(s)

  • English

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Archivist's note

Description prepared by Vesna Miović (Fonds, Series, Subseries) Croatia [The Institute for Historical Sciences in Dubrovnik, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (CASA)] Translation to English by Zrinka Friganović Sain

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