Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1566-1806 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
81 volumes; 2.1 linear metres; textual records
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
The Salt Office in Ston managed the production of salt in the salt basin, the sale of salt, and the purchase of foreign salt. The administrators of the salt basin in Ston were two senators with a one-year mandate. Aside to these elected noblemen, there were others who were selected to perform duties such as scribes, salt sellers (partitores), or those who would purchase salt from foreign traders (masarii).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The fonds has been linked to the archive since its inception. In the times of the Dubrovnik Republic, the books of the fonds were stored at the Salt Office in Ston, and were, by 1891 transferred to the Rector’s Palace, when the archives were consolidated and were made 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.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
There are no references to Jewish people in the fonds.
The fonds consists of registers containing documents from the 60s of the 16th centuries till the early 19th century, recording the following items: costs of maintenance of the Salt Office, costs of management of the salt basin and costs for the production of salt, costs of the shipping of salt to Dubrovnik and to the sales point in Gabela. The fonds also contains data on the sale of salt, as well as various data on salt that was delivered from other places to Ston to be sold.
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
- Italian
Script of material
- Latin
Language and script notes
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 20.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
State Archives in Dubrovnik
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
Šime Peričić, »Prilog poznavanju stonske solane.« (Summary: A Contribution to the History of Salt Production in Ston) Anali Zavoda za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku 43 (2005): 139-163. Vinko Ivančević, »Dubrovačke nabave soli u XVIII stoljeću.« Pomorski zbornik 8 (1970): 657-677.
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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
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
2021
Language(s)
- English
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Sources
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