Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 16th century - 18th century (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
35 volumes; 4.4 linear metres; textual records
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
The activities of the Office of the Communal Treasury were managed by three senators. The senators oversaw the work of the treasurer of the Cathedral, took account of revenues and expenditures of the Office of the Communal Treasury and were also in charge of payments for state employees. This office also issued payment orders requested by the Senate.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The fonds has been linked to the archive since its inception. In times of the Dubrovnik Republic, the books of the fonds were stored in the Cathedral. By 1891 the archival material was relocated to the Rector’s Palace, and consequently the archives were consolidated and became available to researchers. Since 1920, the archive in the Rector's Palace has been functioning as an independent institution and it was dislocated to the Sponza Palace in 1952, where it is still located today.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The books of this fonds contain documents that indicate payments of salaries to state employees and other payments made in accordance with the orders of the Senate. The registers consist of so-called general ledgers with accompanying journal and directories. The books of this fonds have not been sufficiently researched and many are found to be missing. The documents in the fonds cover the period from the 16th to the 18th century.
There are very few references to Jews in the fonds, and the references found mainly refer to Jewish people who were state employees, such as e.g., Jacob Coduto, the consul of the Dubrovnik Republic in an Albanian city of Vlora (1557-1572), and a surgeon by the name of Abraham (1558-1590) (e.g., vol. 8a, letter A).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
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 17, folder 32.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
State Archives in Dubrovnik
Existence and location of copies
The fonds has been completely transferred to microfilms, but the microfilms are not available to the users of archives.
Related units of description
Publication note
Jorjo Tadić, »Les archives économiques de Raguse.« Annales 6 (1961): 1168-1175. Lucio Lume, L'archivio storico di Dubrovnik con repertorio di documenti sulle relazioni della repubblica di Ragusa con le città marchigiane, Roma: Archivio di Stato, 1977. Antonio Di Vittorio, Sergio Anselmi, Paola Pierucci, Ragusa (Dubrovnik) una Repubblica Adriatica; Saggi di storia economica e finanziaria, Bologna: Cisalpino, 1994. Antonio di Vittorio, Tra mare e terra; Aspetti economici e finanziari della Repubblica di Ragusa in etá moderna, Bari: Cacucci Editore, 2011. Ilija Mitić, Konzulati i konzularna služba starog Dubrovnika (summary: The Consuls and the Consular Service of Old Dubrovnik), Dubrovnik: Historijski institut JAZU, 1973. Vesna Miović, »Surgeon Abraham of Ragusa.« Hispania Judaica Bulletin 11 (2015): 79-91.
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Old reference code
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Description control area
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Institution identifier
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).
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
2021
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
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