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Diversa Breni (Various documents registered at the Chancellery of Župa dubrovačka)

There are no references to Jewish people in the series.
The series consists of various documents registered at the Chancellery of Župa dubrovačka in the middle of the 17th century and from the 20s of the 18th centuries till the beginning of the 19th century. These documents are primarily lawsuits, evidentiary proceedings for court investigations, written statements and testimonies, documents on sequestrations, written texts of public proclamations of the Rector’s decrees, etc.

Diversa Cancellariae (Various documents of the Chancellery in Ston)

There are no references to Jewish people in the series.
The series consists of various documents registered at the Chancellery in Ston from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 19th century. The documents in question are primarily written statements and testimonies, sales agreements, documents on sequestrations and texts of public proclamations of the decrees made by the Rector in Ston, etc.

Diversa Cancellariae (Various documents registered at the Rector’s Chancellery in Slano)

There are no references to Jewish people in the series.
The series consists of various documents registered at the Chancellery of the Rector in Slano from the beginning of the 16th century to the beginning of the 19th century. These documents are primarily written statements and testimonies, documents on sequestrations, verdicts of the Criminal Court in Dubrovnik, texts of the public proclamations of the decrees of the Rector of Slano, etc.

Diversa de foris (Various agreements settled outside the city walls of Dubrovnik)

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.


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.

Diversa de Lagosta (Various documents of the Chancellery of the Autonomous Commune of the island of Lastovo)

There are no references to Jewish people in the series.
The series contains registers of various documents of the Chancellery of the island of Lastovo from the 30s of the 15th centuries to the beginning of the 19th century. These documents include lawsuits, sentencing acts, decisions on sequestrations, documents on the selection of administrative officials such as judges, lawyers, or accountants. Other documents include decisions on the appointment of legal guardians, texts of the decisions of the Rector of the island of Lastovo which were publicly proclaimed by the criers, and other documents.

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.

Diversa Meledae (Various documents of the Chancellery of the Autonomous Commune of the island of Mljet)

There are no references to Jewish people in the series.
The series contains various documents registered at the Chancellery of the Autonomous Commune of the island of Mljet from the beginning of the 15th century to the beginning of the 19th century. The documents in the series are primarily witness statements, registrations of Senate decisions, or registrations of sequestrations or auctions, etc.

Diversa navigationis (Various documents regarding navigation)

The series contains transcripts of various documents issued in the consulates of the Dubrovnik Republic in the ports of the Mediterranean, as well as in the city of Dubrovnik itself. The files were registered in the books of this series at the request of the captain and some other persons, whose function was not defined, so that it can only be assumed that these were co-owners of ships, providers of maritime loans, and/or merchants. The content of the files is very diverse: from instructions of the co-owners of the ship to the captain, lists of merchandise, invoices, consignment notes, and lists of co-owners of the ships, to various powers of attorney, private letters and testimonies of shipwrecks.


The series contains a very small number of references to Jewish people, and the data can be used for the analysis of their involvement in the maritime affairs of the Republic. The referenced Jews are members of some Ragusan Jewish families, such as Ambonetti, Levi Mandolfo, Pardo, Tolentino, Venturra. The Jews referenced appear in these documents as co-owners of ships, merchants, providers of maritime loans, proxies of maritime captains (e.g. vol. 1, f. 255).

Diversa thesaurariorum (Various documents issued by treasurers)

The series contains registers of state revenues and expenditures from the 17th to the beginning of the 19th century.


The only reference to Jewish people in this series is the reference to extraordinary taxes that had to be paid by Jews, sea captains and Orthodox community of the Republic in the 60s and the 80s of the 18th centuries for the costs of protection against the plague (e.g., vol. 5, f. 12v).

Diversa Trstenicae (Various documents registered at the Chancellery of the captaincy in Trstenica)

There are no references to Jews in the series.
The series consists of various lawsuits registered at the Chancellery of the captaincy in Trstenica from the mid-17th century and in the 70s of the 18th centuries. The documents in the series are primarily lawsuits, written statements and testimonies, sales agreements, documents on sequestrations, as well as registrations of official letters, contracts and official documents issued by the authorities in Dubrovnik, etc.

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