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Miljenko Pandžić, Povlastice Kraljevine Hrvatske — Popisi {16 do 19 st.), Arhivski vjesnik, 26/1983. Str. 7—43. SUM MARY PRIVILEGES OF THE KINGDOM OF CROATIA — THE REGISTERS (16th to 19th c.) The Archive of Croatia is today the central archival institution in the Socialistic Republic of Croatia and it has a long and interesting history. On the 23. December 1983, it was 340 years since it had been made »the Chest of the Privileges of the Kingdom of Croatia« (»cista seu Archivum«) in charge of the main notary of the Kingdom (»prothonotarius«) Ivan Zakmardi, who was also the Exchequer of the Kingdom (»Exactor Regni-«). It represents the beginning of the Archives of the Kingdom (»Archivum Regni«) of feudal Croatia. The chest was made according to the former conclusion of the feudal Croatian Parliament (»Sabor«) for safer keeping and preserving the charters of the »Sabor«, state documents and privileges important for the administration, judiciary, finance and army of feudal Croatia. The instruments were covering the period from the beginning of the 13th c, i.e. from 1222, when the so-called »golden bulla« was issued, the charter of liberties for the noblehood of Hungary and »Slavonia« (i.e. northern Croatia), from king Andreas II. This charter was preserved in our chest in two home-made transcriptions, (»transsumpta«), from 14th and 15th c. Here is also a transcription of the oldest preserved »statute« of the first »Sabor« of the Kingdom of »Sclavonia« (»Congregatio Regni«), from 1273, from which days, as it seems, the tradition of keeping such charters is preserved till late 19th c, when Banus of Croatia, in 1894, gave the keys of the chest to the director of Archives, Dr. Ivan Bojničić. From 1643, there were three keys of the chest (»claves cistae privilegiorum Regni«), one being kept by Banus (i.e. »Viceroy« of the Kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia), the other by »Prothonotarius«, and the third by »Vicebanus« (or »Podban«, the deputy of the Banus). The chest is decorated with coats of arms of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia, and inside is a patriotic Latin poem in hexameters written by »Magister Ioannes Zakmardi de Diankovcz ... charissimae Patriae suae canebat«. This poem was cited again in the 19th c. in 1830, in well known historico-political paper about »Municipal Rights and Statutes of the Kingdoms of Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia«, written by another »proto-notary«, Josip Kušević. Meanwhile, the author emphasizes the special care for keeping these privileges through centuries. Even more than 150 years before this chest of Zakmardi, on the beginning of 16th, c, there was made a register, called »regestum« of these charters, and this is here published as Supplement I. to this paper, as well as another register made in 1630, and 1643, finished together with the chest, in which it was kept, later on, as an inventory of the charters (see Supplement II). In the 18th c. there was another list or »elenchus« made for all privileges that were kept in the chest. The history of the privileges from 1584 till 1764, when this new »elenchus« was made is discussed in another manuscript written in the second half of the 18th c, and published here as Supplement III. In the middle of the 16th c. (in 1546), there was made, for the same privileges, also a smaller chest, the so-called »ladula«, that was. kept in the sacristy of the Zagreb cathedral, as well as was Zakmardi's chest till the year 1764, when it was transported into the Upper Town of Zagreb, in the house of Croatian »Sabor«. Finally, it was transported with the whole »Archivum Regni« to the new repository — now in the Archive of Croatia. 43