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Naula et securitas Cancellariae; Noli e sicurtà de Cancellaria (Maritime transportation insurance registered at the Chancellery)

The series contains records of maritime transportation insurance of merchandise that mainly arrived from the area of the Ottoman Empire and was transported to Italian ports, mostly Ancona and Venice. The records contain the following data: name of the sales representative, name of the merchant, i.e., the owner of the merchandise, sometimes even the name of the city where the merchant lived, details of the merchandise (type and quantity), place of loading, name of ship, name of captain, place of unloading, name of insurer and price insurance. The records of the series date from the period from the 60s to the 30s of the 17th centuries.


Between 1564 and 1646 an approximate number of 4,000 maritime insurance contracts were registered which show references to Jewish population. Most of these records are part of the series Naula et securitas Notariae (HR-DADU-54.2). A very small part of these records, approximately a dozen of them, were recorded in this series which consists of only 6 volumes. Jews appear in this series in the role of both: merchants and trade representatives. Jewish names belong to certain members of Ragusan Jewish families such as Benaso, Bono, Ergas, Feri, Levi, Saba, Sabadul, Trigo, who were residents of different towns Dubrovnik, Leš, Sarajevo, Skopje. Related to the type of merchandise that was shipped to Ancona via Dubrovnik, it mostly consisted of wool, wax, and various types of leather.

Poenarum condemnatorum exactio (Documents on payments of fines registered at the Chancellery of Župa Dubrovačka)

There are no references to Jewish people in the series.
The series consists of various entries on the payment and collection of fines which were registered at the Rector’s Chancellery in Župa dubrovačka from the end of the 16th century to the middle of the 17th century.

Registra Particularia Insulae Mediae (Special registers of the Chancellery of the island of Lopud)

There are no references to the Jewish people in the series.
The series consists of two so-called special registers of the Chancellery of the island of Lopud from the middle of the 17th century. The first volume contains various documents, such as promissory notes (aptai) and documents on sequestrations. The second volume contains marriage licenses issued by the Catholic parish priest on the island of Lopud.

Commandamenta (Decrees)

There are no references to Jews in the series.
The series mainly consists of various lawsuits and evidentiary proceedings for court investigations in the field of civil law, which were registered at the Chancellery in Ston from the middle of the 15th century to the end of the 17th century.

Secreta Rogatorum (Undisclosed decisions of the Senate)

The series was created by a decree of the Minor Council in 1443, which stipulated keeping a record of undisclosed decisions of the Senate and the Minor Council in special volumes. The volumes consist of undisclosed state provisions that mainly concern the Ottomans, the Catholic Church, the sending of information about the Ottoman Empire to Christian countries, and the fate of those persons whom the authorities considered to be the enemies of the state.


The series covers the period from the end of the 15th to the end of the 17th century and it offers only scarce data about the Jewish people. A reference to an unnamed Jewish physician who carried a state notarial document to Istanbul in 1660 (vol. 5, f. 13v) is probably the only record of Jews in this series.

Diversa Insulae Mediae (Various documents of the Chancellery of the island of Lopud)

There are no references to Jewish people in the series.
The series consists of various documents of the Chancellery of the island of Lopud from the middle of the 17th century to the beginning of the 19th century. Some documents are related to the islands of Koločep and Šipan and these include the registrations of official letters issued by the Minor Council and the Senate, or the decisions of the Criminal Court in Dubrovnik, written testimonies and evidentiary proceedings, documents on sequestrations, texts of public proclamations of the decrees of the Rector of the island of Lopud, etc.

Aptai di misericordia de Lagosta (Promissory notes of charity registered at the Chancellery of the Autonomous Commune on the island of Lastovo)

There are no references to Jewish people in the series.
The series contains promissory notes of charity made by the inhabitants of the island of Lastovo from the beginning of the 17th century to the middle of the 18th century.

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