Published
The registers of the _Diversa de Foris_ began to be kept in 1593 with the intention of registering the documents created outside Dubrovnik, which were of concern to the citizens of Dubrovnik in any way. There are also entries that should be filed in different fonds, the _Diversa Notariae_ (HR-DADU-9) or _Diversa Cancellariae_ (HR-DADU-15). Therefore, it can be concluded that the registers from this series and from the afore mentioned two fonds contain data on public-law and private-law affairs. The documents filed in these registers provide information on all aspects of political, economic and cultural, public and private life in Dubrovnik.
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The series is very important for the research of the history of the Jewish people. It provides relevant data on business and private connections of Dubrovnik Jewish people with other countries in Europe, mostly in the Southeast, then with North Africa and the Middle East, in the period from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 19th century. Among the first entries in this fonds is a _ketubah_ registered in 1593, which was translated into Italian by Didacus Pyrrhus (vol. 1, ff. 71-75). According to the data, Jews who wished to register _ketubahs_ in the books of the Public Notary or at the Chancellery would first have those translated into Italian. Almost all translated _ketubahs_ were registered in this series, and they were _written_ in Dubrovnik, Split, Ancona, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Thessaloniki and Sofia. This series also shows record of the will of Mira Alfandrino from 1614 (vol. 30, ff. 55v-62) as well as the record of the only existing translation of a divorce document (_gett)_) from 1692, between Bianca and Gabriel Valenzin (vol. 125, ff. 39v, 40). In addition to documents of private and legal matters, many business contracts were also registered, whether signed in Dubrovnik or outside of the Dubrovnik Republic. These include, for example, contracts by Dubrovnik _shochets_ contracts on the division of labour, or trade contracts concluded between Jewish merchants and Dubrovnik sea captains. Some of the documents worth mentioning provide evidence to a very lively participation of Jewish people in the maritime affairs of the Dubrovnik Republic, primarily through co-ownership of ships belonging to the fleet of the Republic and through the granting of various maritime loans. As for important people from the history of the Sephardim, names that especially stand out are Abraham Coen de Herrera and the descendants of the famous Dubrovnik rabbi Aron Coen. A very important document from Antwerp from 1612, which was registered in Dubrovnik a year later, at the request of Abraham Coen de Herrera, states that his Christian name was Allonso Nuñes de Herrera (vol. 26, ff. 198-200). The series also references to other members of the Coen de Herrera family, as well as a very large number of other Jews from Dubrovnik, the Apennine Peninsula and the Ottoman Empire.
State Archives in Dubrovnik
_Diversa Notariae_ (HR-DADU-9), _Diversa Cancellariae_ (HR-DADU-15), _Registrum citationum de foris_ (HR-DADU-30.2), _Ruoli_ (HR-DADU-58.2)
_Građa za generalni katalog Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku_, box 17, folder 22.
Jorjo Tadić, _Jevreji u Dubrovniku do polovine XVII stoljeća_ (Résumé: La Communauté Juive de Dubrovnik), Sarajevo: La Benevolencia, 1937. Vinko Ivančević, »Udio Židova u pomorstvu starog Dubrovnika (1751-1808).« _Jevrejski almanah_ 1963-1964 (1965): 67-81. 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. Vesna Miović, _Židovke u Dubrovačkoj Republici_, (Summary: Jewish Women in the Dubrovnik Republic) Zagreb-Dubrovnik: HAZU Zavod za povijesne znanosti, 2013.Vesna Miović, »Prijevodi sefardskih ketuba Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku.« (Summary: The Translations of the Sephardic Ketubbot at the State Archives in Dubrovnik) _Anali Zavoda za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku_ 52/1 (2014): 89-130.Vesna Miović, _Židovski rodovi u Dubrovniku (1546-1940)_ (Summary: Jewish Families of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), 1546-1940), Zagreb-Dubrovnik: Zavod za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku 2017