Fonds HR-DADU-35 - Officiales rationum; Officiali delle cinque ragioni (Main state accountants)

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Reference code

HR-DADU-35

Title

Officiales rationum; Officiali delle cinque ragioni (Main state accountants)

Date(s)

  • 15th century - 19th century (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

27 volumes; 1 linear metre; textual records

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Archival history

The Office of the Main State Accountant was managed and administered by three senators. State accountants managed government money, monitored government spending, and controlled expenses of the ambassadors of the Republic. The office was founded in 1408, and before that time, these tasks had been administered by the Minor Council.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

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 or in the Cathedral, where the State Treasury was. 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.

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Scope and content

The series contains various accounting books and lists of state revenues from the 15th to the 19th century. In six volumes, the costs of missions to the sultan and Ottoman dignitaries from Bosnia to Istanbul were recorded, as well as the costs of missions to the Venetian general provider of Dalmatia (18th century). After a thorough consideration, accounting officers either accepted or rejected the costs, and recorded accordingly those expenditures in notebooks bearing the names Partite accetate and Partite ributtate. Rejected expenditures were sent to the Senate for further consideration.


There are only few references to Jews in this series. Those references can be only found in volumes no. 11 and 12, entitled Riscossioni dell'Officio (recoveries of state revenues, 1711-1740). In these references Jews are referred to mostly as tenants of residential and commercial premises belonging to the foundation Opera pia. A very prominent Dubrovnik merchant Raphael Coen, as well as his sons Abram and Aron (e.g. vol. 11, f. 28) are those Jewish people mostly referred to in these volumes.

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Accruals

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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

  • Italian

Script of material

  • Latin

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Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Paper. The archival material is well preserved.

Finding aids

Građa za generalni katalog Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku, box 17, folder 28.

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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

Thesaurarii Sanctae Mariae Maioris (HR-DADU-39), Cassa comunis (HR-DADU-40), Archivium Operum piarum (HR-DADU-50)

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Publication note

Kosta Vojnović, »Državni rizničari republike dubrovačke.« Rad JAZU 127 (1896): 1-101. Kosta Vojnović, »Dodatak raspravi: Državni rizničari republike Dubrovačke.« Starine JAZU 28 (1896): 186-260. Antonio Di Vittorio, Finanze e moneta a Ragusa nell'età delle crisi, Napoli: Giannini Editore, 1983.

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Note

Volumes entitled Partite accetate and Partite ributtate have alphabetical indexes according to the first name of the person whose expenses were being taken into consideration and evaluated.

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Old reference code

Fonds of the Dubrovnik Republic and the territory of the former Republic under the French Administration, series 18

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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

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