Published
The fonds consists of the series _Leges et instructiones_ (HR-DADU-14.1) and _Pragmatica_ (HR-DADU-14.2).
Paper; parchement. The archival material is well preserved.
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 Rector's Palace. The books remained in the Rector’s Palace after the fall of the Republic (1808). In 1891, the archives were consolidated and became 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.
Preserved interstate treaties and other documents dating from the 12th century show that the authorities would already at that time oversee the work of the public notary and the chancellery. Based on key provisions made during the 15th century, the central administration consisted of five offices located in the Rector's Palace. These were: The Public Notary (legal private affairs), the State Chancellery (legal public affairs), the Judicial Chancellery (criminal justice affairs), the Office of the State Secretary (legal state affairs) and the Slavic Chancellery, which would eventually be transformed into the Turkish Chancellery.
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
State Archives in Dubrovnik
The fonds has been completely transferred to microfilms, but the microfilms are not available to the users of archives.
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)._
Taking photographs and scanning are allowed, for a fee.
Published
The series is very important for the research of the legal history of the Dubrovnik Republic. It consists of several transcripts of the basic Dubrovnik legal codes, or more precisely, the Statute from 1272, _Liber omnium reformationum_ (1335-1410), _Liber viridis_ (1358-1460) and _Liber croceus_ (1460-1803). A Dubrovnik nobleman, Frano Gondola (1539-1589) composed indexes for these basic collections of regulations. He made sure that each provision is followed by a brief description and definitions of less familiar terms. Gondola's work has contributed significantly to easier referencing and interpretation of the law in general. The series also contains other books of laws that were created based on the previously mentioned codes as well as collections of decisions from judicial and administrative practice. It also contains various indexes for series and fonds such as _Acta Consilii Rogatorum_ (HR-DADU-3.1), _Sententiae Cancellariae_ (HR-DADU-18), _Diversa Cancellariae_ (HR-DADU-15), _Diversa Notariae_ (HR -DADU-9), _Diversa de Foris_ (HR-DADU-30.1).
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Jewish people are mentioned in the series only occasionally. In the book _Index sive regestum Partium Consilii Rogatorum, rpbl. Ragusinae ab. A 1407 us. ad a. 1601_, there are three entries on the decisions of the Senate on the dwelling of the Jews inside the city walls (vol. 26, f. 81). The books _Indice alfabetico delle sentenze_ and _Index sententiarum_ present the words of an oath that Jews were required to take when testifying in court (vol. 18, f. 53; vol. 42, f. 35). In the book _Compendio di tutte le sentenze e giudicati in ogni materia, in forma d'indice raccolte da me D. Antonio Damiano Ohmuchievich_, the text of this oath in Latin was published in two places (vol. 45, f. 121-122, 124 -125).
State Archives in Dubrovnik
_Reformationes_ (HR-DADU-1), _Acta Consilii Maioris_ (HR-DADU-2), _Consilium Rogatorum_ (HR-DADU-3), _Consilium Minus_ (HR-DADU-4)
_Građa za generalni katalog Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku_, box 17, folder 2. Josip Gelčić,»Catalogus i. r. Archivii Ragusini.« _Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini_ 22 (1910): 537-588.
Zdravko Šundrica, »Dubrovački Židovi i njihova emancipacija (1808-1815).«, in: _Tajna kutija dubrovačkog arhiva_, II, ed. Vladimir Stipetić, Zagreb-Dubrovnik: Zavod za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku, 2009. _Liber statutorum Civitatis Ragusii compositus anno 1271_, ed. V. Bogišić, C. Jireček, _Monumenta historico-juridica Slavorum Meridionalium, IX_, Zagreb, 1904. Aleksandar Solovjev, _Liber Omnium Reformationum Civitatis Ragusii, Istorijsko-pravni spomenici, I, Dubrovački zakoni i uredbe_, Beograd: SANU, 1936. Branislav Nedeljković, _Liber Viridis_, Beograd: SANU, 1984. Branislav Nedeljković, _Liber Croceus_, Beograd: SANU 1997. Nella Lonza, _Pod plaštem pravde, Kaznenopravni sustav Dubrovačke Republike u XVIII. stoljeću_ (summary: Criminal Justice in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Dubrovnik), Dubrovnik: Zavod za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku, 1997. Nella Lonza, »Gundulić, Frano (Gondola), Hrvatski bibliografski leksikon, vol. 5, Zagreb: Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 2002: 313. _The Statute of Dubrovnik of 1272_, ed. Nella Lonza, Vesna Baće, Vesna Rimac, Dubrovnik: Državni arhiv u Dubrovniku, 20
Published
There is no reference to Jewish people in this series.
The series consists of investigations conducted by officials in charge of compliance with the law against luxury (_officiali sopra le pompe; officiali della pramatica; officiali sopra la pramatica)._
State Archives in Dubrovnik
_Reformationes_ (HR-DADU-1), _Acta Consilii Maioris_ (HR-DADU-2), _Consilium Rogatorum_ (HR-DADU-3), _Consilium Minus_ (HR-DADU-4)
Vlaho Kojaković, _Dubrovnik u privatnom životu_, Dubrovnik: Štamparija Jadran, 1993. Zdenka Janeković-Römer, _The Frame of Freedom: The Nobility of Dubrovnik between the Midle Ages and Humanism_, Zagreb-Dubrovnik: Zavod za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku, 2015. Zdenka Janeković-Römer, »Nasilje zakona: Gradska vlast i privatni život u kasnosrednjovjekovnom i ranonovovjekovnom Dubrovniku.« (summary: The Violence of Low: City Government and Privacy in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Dubrovnik) _Anali Zavoda za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku_ 41 (2003): 9-43. Stefano d'Atri, »'Adequare le pompe alli tempi procellosi'. Leggi suntuarie e carestie nella Ragusa (Dubrovnik) del XVI secolo.«, in: _Moda&mode; tradizioni e innovazione (secoli XI-XXI)_, ed. Maria Rosaria Pelizzari. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2019: 33-41.