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Date(s)
- 16th century - 19th century (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
144 volumes; 1.7 linear metres; textual records
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
In 1891, a historian Josip Gelčić took a newly opened job position of an archivist in the Dubrovnik Archives, which was then located in the Rector's Palace. He made a summary inventory of archival material from the time of the Dubrovnik Republic. He also created this fonds.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The archival material of the fonds, which was originally part of private archives, was mostly either purchased or donated. The fonds has in this way become an integral part of the archival material of the Dubrovnik Republic. The archive was primarily in the Rector's Palace and has been operating as an independent institution since 1920 and in 1952 it was relocated to the Sponza Palace where is still located today.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The fonds is very important for the research of the history of Jews in the times of the Dubrovnik Republic since it contains two volumes related to Didacus Pyrrhus. Volume no. 42 contains a transcript of Didacus's poem De Rhacusinae urbid laudibus Carmen from a book which had been printed in Florence in 1613. Volume no. 95 contains a transcript of a short debate on the life and work of Didacus Pyrrhus, entitled Della vita e degli scritti di Didaco Pirro, altrimenti detto Jacopo Flavio Eborense. The text was written by Tomo Krša, a Dubrovnik writer and translator (1782-1826) and it was published in 1826 in Florence in _Giornale arcadio di scienze, lettere ed arti (_vol. 32, 1826). This fonds also contained a volume entitled De Didacho Pirro, Appunti which has been long lost.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
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 governing reproduction
Taking photographs and scanning are allowed, for a fee.
Language of material
- Croatian
- Italian
- Latin
Script of material
- Latin
Language and script notes
Croatian (Slavic language)
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Paper. The archival material is well preserved.
Finding aids
Građa za generalni katalog Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku, box 18, folder 11. Josip Gelčić,»Catalogus i. r. Archivii Ragusini.« Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini 22 (1910): 537-588.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
State Archives in Dubrovnik
Existence and location of copies
The fonds has been completely transferred to microfilms, but the microfilms are not available to the users of archives.
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Publication note
Vinicije B. Lupis, »Amatus Lusitanus e Didaco Pirro: due ebrei portoghesi e cerchia umanistica di Dubrovnik.«, in: Humanismo e Ciência; antiguidade e Rinascimento, ed. Antonio Manuel Lopes Andrade, Carlos de Miguel Mora, Joao Manuel Torrao. Aveiro - Coimbra: Imprensa de Universidade de Coimbra, 2015, 481-512. Bratislav Lučin, »Prema kritičkom izdanju Marulićevih hrvatskih stihova: Judita kao orijentir.« (Summary: Towards a Critical Edition of Marulić's Croatian Verses: Judita as Road Map) Colloquia Maruliana 26 (2017): 5-73. Irena Bratičević, »Novi prilozi za životopis Rajmunda Kunića.« (Summary: New contributions to Rajmund Kunić's biography) Povijesni prilozi 43 (2012): 193-215. Nella Lonza, Knežev dvor u Dubrovniku; Utvrda - palača - muzej, Dubrovnik: DUM, 2016. Ivan Lupić and Irena Bratičević, »Literary Collectors as Literary Scribes: The Case of Đuro Ferić (1739-1820).« Poznańske Studia Slawistyczne 14 (2018): 129- 147.
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Rules and/or conventions used
Descriptions of fonds, series and sub-series are made according to the ISAD (G) standard (general international standard archival description)
Status
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Dates of creation revision deletion
2021
Language(s)
- English
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Archivist's note
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