Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 16th century - 19th century (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Fonds
Étendue matérielle et support
26 volumes; 0,4 linear metres; textual records
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Histoire archivistique
Because of better organization and better control of the work in consulates, the Senate established the Office for Maritime Affairs in 1745, and a few years later also the Office for Consulates in the Ottoman Empire. According to the instructions of the Senate, these two offices oversaw the activities of the consulates in the ports of the eastern Mediterranean. Prior to the establishment of these offices, most decisions on the activities and the work of Dubrovnik consuls and consulates had been made by the Senate.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
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 in the Rector’s Palace, where they remained even after the fall of the Republic in 1808. In 1891, 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.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The books of this fonds are mainly from the second half of the 18th century. The fonds primarily contains books kept by the Office for Maritime Affairs and those kept by the Office for Consulates in the Ottoman Empire. The documents in the books contain lists of accepted and rejected expenses of consulates in Alexandria, Arta, Chania (Canea), Istanbul, Smyrna and Thessaloniki, a book of Senate decisions on consulates in the Ottoman Empire, a book with a list of Dubrovnik consulates and consuls and a book of letters written by the consuls to the authorities of the Republic. The collection also includes books that do not belong to this fonds, such as the expenditure lists of the ambassadors of the Republic in Istanbul and in Belgrade (17th century). The fonds also contains one expenditure list of a Ragusan ambassador in Vienna (1772), and one travelogue of an ambassador in Istanbul (1792), as well as a list of Ragusan trade intermediaries (sensali) (1572-1575).
Two volumes of the fonds are important for researching the cooperation of Jewish population with the Dubrovnik Republic. Volume 1, entitled Tasse per sansaria imposte à Sensali pubblici dell 'anno 1572-1575, shows that 72 official trade intermediaries operated in Dubrovnik during this period. Among them there were approximately twenty Jews, from Jewish families such Adaroch, Barochas, Berubi, Celebi, Chatinela, Cohen, Crispin, Flores, Gabai, Gratiano, Jachar, Mazza, Moscato, Nasin, Nahem, Oef, Pardo, Sabatai, Trincha and Zafarana. A particularly significant name referenced in the fonds is the name of Isaia Coen, a nephew of Didacus Pyrrhus (vol. 1, f. 32). The data also contain names of the merchants who used the services of trade intermediaries. Volume 2, entitled Consolati nationali 1752-1796, contains a list of Dubrovnik consulates and consuls at the time. Among them there are members of Jewish families Bussara and Busnaco, who served as administrators (amministratori) of the Dubrovnik consulate in Algeria (vol. 2, f. 77).
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
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 de reproduction
Taking photographs and scanning are allowed, for a fee.
Langue des documents
- italien
- latin
Écriture des documents
- latin
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Paper. The archival material is well preserved.
Instruments de recherche
Josip Gelčić,»Catalogus i. r. Archivii Ragusini.« Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini 22 (1910): 537-588.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
State Archives in Dubrovnik
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
The fonds has been completely transferred to microfilms, but the microfilms are not available to the users of archives.
Unités de description associées
Note de publication
Ilija Mitić, Konzulati i konzularna služba starog Dubrovnika (Riassunto: Consolati e servizi consolari della vecchia Dubrovnik), Dubrovnik: Historijski institut JAZU u Dubrovniku, 1973.
Zone des notes
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Old reference code
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
Mots-clés - Genre
Zone du contrôle de la description
Identifiant de la description
Identifiant du service d'archives
Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
Descriptions of fonds, series and sub-series are made according to the ISAD (G) standard (general international standard archival description)
Statut
Niveau de détail
Dates de production, de révision, de suppression
2021
Langue(s)
- anglais
Écriture(s)
Sources
Note de l'archiviste
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