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The fonds is an important source for researching the life and business affairs of the people living in the Dubrovnik Republic in the period from the 15th to the 19th century. It consists primarily of accounting books of debts and receivables (_dare et avere_), trade journals (_giornale_), various notes (_squarçio, libro picolo, quaderno_), general ledgers (_libro grande, maestro_) and accounting books of different stores (_quaderni stacionis_).
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Volume no. 23 of this fonds is an accounting book which contains various monetary claims of Isac Vita Campos, with an alphabetical index according to the first names of his debtors. It can be assumed that this book contains data on both Isac and his brother Samuel, two prominent Dubrovnik merchants who ran a very successful trading company in the 18th century. The data provide evidence that seven generations of the Campos family lived in Dubrovnik from the 17th to the 19th century. Some accounting books of various Dubrovnik merchants, for example Vicko Stefani, Martolo Đurđević and Benko Resti, also contain data on their affairs with Jewish business partners (vols. 32, 43, 44).
Paper. The archival material is well preserved.
The archival material of the fonds, which was originally part of private archives, was mostly either purchased or was donated. The fonds has in this way become an integral part of the archival material of the Dubrovnik Republic. The archive was first in the Rector's Palace and has been operating as an independent institution since 1920. In 1952 the archive was relocated to the Sponza Palace where is still located today.
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.
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.
_Memoriae_ (HR-DADU-62)
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.
_Građa za generalni katalog Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku_, box 18, folder 12. Josip Gelčić,»Catalogus i. r. Archivii Ragusini.« _Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini_ 22 (1910): 537-588.
Toma Popović, »Dubrovnik i Ankona u jevrejskoj trgovini XVI veka.« (Summary: Dubrovnik and Ancona in the Jewish Trade of the 16th Century) _Zbornik Jevrejskog muzeja_ 1 (1971): 41-53.Vesna Miović, _Židovski rodovi u Dubrovniku (1546-1940)_ (Summary: Jewish Families of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), 1546-1940), Zagreb-Dubrovnik: Zavod za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku 2017. C. Leyerer, _Die Handlungsbücher der Republik Ragusa: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Buchhaltung_, Triest: K. K. Handels - und Nautischen Akademine, 1907. Ignacij Voje, »Privatne poslovne knjige dubrovačkih trgovcev (XIV stoletje).« _Zgodovinski časopis_ 34 (1957): 77-85. Bogumil Hrabak, »O hercegovačkim vlasima prema poslovnoj knjizi Đivana Pripčinovića.« _Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja_ 11 (1956): 29-39. Mihajlo Dinić, »Knjiga Mihaila Lucarevića«, in: _Iz dubrovačkog arhiva_, I, _Zbornik za istoriju, jezik i književnost srpskog naroda_, III/17, Beograd: SANU, 1963: 35-91. Ignacij Voje, _Poslovna uspešnost trgovcev v srednjeveškem Dubrovniku_ (summary), Ljubljana: Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske fakultete, 2003. Desanka Kovačević Kojić, _Trgovačke knjige braće Kabužić (Caboga) 1426-1433_, Beograd: SANU, 199. Zdenka Janeković Römer, »The Family Records of Andreas de Pozza from 1569-1603.« _Dubrovnik Annals_ 13 (2009): 37-54.