Fonds HR-DADU-36 - Grassia; Grassa (Food supplies)

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Cote

HR-DADU-36

Titre

Grassia; Grassa (Food supplies)

Date(s)

  • 1500-1590, 1595-1609, 1616, 1622-1625, 1627-1655, 1662-1809 (Création/Production)

Niveau de description

Fonds

Étendue matérielle et support

58 volumes; 2.3 linear metres; textual records

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Nom du producteur

Histoire archivistique

The State Office for Food Supplies was led by three senators, and their mandate lasted for three years. The main role of the office was to take care of food supplies for the inhabitants of the Republic. The most important food supplies were cereals which were purchased in the countries of the Ottoman Empire and in the south of the Apennine Peninsula.

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

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 State Office for Food Supplies. In 1891, the archives were relocated to the Rector’s Palace and were consolidated becoming 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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Portée et contenu

The fonds contains registers of expenses related to the purchase of various types of cereals (sorghum, millet, wheat, barley), as well as the purchase of olive oil, rice, or beans. Some registers in the fonds provide information on the distribution and sale of these food products to the inhabitants of the Republic. Among other documents in the fonds, there are also registers of debtors, and various transcripts of Senate decisions regarding the purchase and delivery of food products. According to the data, domestic and foreign traders would deliver food to the Republic and the authorities of the Republic would then organize the purchase of food abroad (primarily on the Apennine Peninsula and in the Ottoman Empire) as well as its delivery to Dubrovnik. One of the responsibilities of this office was also to provide food to the poor at lower prices, either on loan or even free of charge.


There is very little information about Jews in the fonds. The data in the fonds demonstrate how Jews participated in food procurement and provide information on different ways how they benefited from the services of this office. According to the data, some members of Dubrovnik Jewish families such as Cittanova, Levi Mandolfo and Terni were involved in the acquisition and delivery of food to Dubrovnik in the 18th century. The sons of a renown Dubrovnik merchant Raphael Coen, Aron, Abram and Moshe, distinguished themselves in the process of food acquisition from Ancona. The data show that Dubrovnik Jewish community procured food using the services of this office (e.g., vol. 28, under the letter S).

Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation

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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

Écriture des documents

  • latin

Notes de langue et graphie

Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

Paper. The archival material is well preserved.

Instruments de recherche

Građa za generalni katalog Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku, box 17, folder 29.

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

Consilium Rogatorum (HR-DADU-3), Consilium Minus (HR-DADU-4), Cassa comunis (HR-DADU-40), Thesaurarii Sanctae Mariae Maioris (HR-DADU-39)

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Note de publication

Bogdan Krizman, »Memoire Bara Bettere austrijskom generalu T. Milutinoviću o dubrovačkoj republici iz 1815. godine.« (résumé: Memoire de Baro Bettera adressé au general austrichien T. Milutinović, sur la Republique de Raguse et datant de 1815) Anali Historijskog instituta u Dubrovniku 1 (1952): 423-464. Vesna Miović, Dubrovačka Republika u spisima osmanskih sultana (Summary: Dubrovnik Republic in the Documents of the Ottoman Sultans), Dubrovnik: Državni arhiv u Dubrovniku, 2005. Stefano d'Atri, »Adi 2 di marzo 1590 porta fornita: Rupe, il granaio di Ragusa (Dubrovnik).« Melanges de l'Ecole Française de Rome 120 (2008): 569-580. Stefano d'Atri, »Per conservare la Città tributtaria et divota: Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and the 1590-1591 crisis.« Dubrovnik Annals 14 (2010): 71-98. Stefano d'Atri, »'Le navi e il mar, invece di campi e d'oliveti, tengono la cittá abbondante d'ogni bene.' Il sistema annonario di Ragusa (Dubrovnik) in Età moderna.« Storia urbana 134 (2012): 31-56.

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Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)

Old reference code

Fonds of the Dubrovnik Republic and the territory of the former Republic under the French Administration, series 44

Mots-clés

Mots-clés - Sujets

Mots-clés - Lieux

Mots-clés - Noms

Mots-clés - Genre

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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

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