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Date(s)
- 14th century -19th century (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
99 volumes; 8 linear metres; textual records
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Rajmund Negrini was a prominent Ragusan co-owner of ships of the Dubrovnik Republic and collector.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Rajmund Negrini bequeathed his private library and his collection of archival documents to Dubrovnik Libraries. This institution handed over the archival material to the State Archives in Dubrovnik in 1941. The fonds has been linked to the archives since its inception. The archivists of the State Archives in Dubrovnik have incorporated some of these documents into other fonds: 12th century documents have been archived in the fonds Diplomata et Acta (HR-DADU-7.3.2), documents related to maritime affairs of the Republic have been archived in the fonds Naula et securitas Notariae et Cancellariae (HR -DADU-54), while documents related to business affairs in general were archived in the fonds Privata (HR-DADU-63).
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The fonds is divided by centuries and covers the period from the 14th to the 19th century. It contains fragments of various books of the Chancellery and the Public Notary, wills and testaments, private letters, letters sent to the authorities of the Dubrovnik Republic from Italian and Ottoman cities, as well as some letters sent from other various parts of the territory of the Republic. Some of these documents were health certificates, petitions to the Minor Council, Criminal Court records, bills of exchange, various receipts of payments and bills.
The State Archives in Dubrovnik have preserved only a few wills and testaments related to Jews so that these documents are of great value and importance for any research related to the life of Jewish population in Dubrovnik during the Dubrovnik Republic. One of those rare documents can be found in this fonds (17th century, vol. 16, no. 8). Jewish people are also referenced in some documents related to court investigations. The fonds also shows records of several letters from the 16th century, that some Jews from Ancona wrote to a Ragusan nobleman, from the Giorgi family (e.g., 16th century, vol. 3, no. 171).
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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, folders 10-1, 10-2 i 10-3.
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.
Related units of description
Publication note
Josip Lučić, »Miscellanea saeculi XIV ex Archivio Ragusii (Dubrovnik), Lastovo, I dio.« Arhivski vjesnik 17-18 (1975): 67-78. Josip Lučić, »Miscellanea saeculi XIV ex Archivio Ragusii (Dubrovnik), Lastovo, II dio.« Arhivski vjesnik 19-20 (1977): 240-247. Lucio Lume, L'archivio storico di Dubrovnik con repertorio di documenti sulle relazioni della repubblica di Ragusa con le città marchigiane, Roma: Archivio di Stato, 1977. Josip Lučić, »Miscellanea saeculi XIV ex Archivio Ragusii (Dubrovnik).« Arhivski vjesnik 30 (1987): 127-133. Vesna Miović, Židovke u Dubrovačkoj Republici (Summary: Jewish Women in the Dubrovnik Republic) Zagreb-Dubrovnik: HAZU Zavod za povijesne znanosti, 2013.
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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)
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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