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M. Pandžić, Povodom 350. obljetnice izrade škrinje povlastica/sloboština - »arhiva« Kraljevstva Hrvatske (1643-1993). Arh. vjesn., god. 36 (1993) str. 7-21 knjižnicu) - 1913. godine u Zagrebu, u koji bi se, prema odluci Hrvatske vlade od lipnja 1992., nakon preseljenja NSB u novi prostor, do izgradnje nove zgrade trebao smjestiti Hrvatski državni arhiv, kao današnja "cista privilegiorum" Hrvatske i hrvatskoga naroda, sa svom arhivskom građom iz proteklih stoljeća. Summary ON THE 350th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHEST OF THE PRIVILEGES OR LIBERTIES - "ARCHÍVUM" OF THE KINGDOM OF CROATIA On the 23. December 1643 the Exchequer of the Kingdom of Croatia Ioannes Zakmardy de Diankovecz with a special Commision of the feudal Parliament or "Congregatio Generalis Regni Croatiae Dalmatiae et Slavoniae" (later on "Hrvatski sabor") on a solemn way opened a new chest ("cista nova") of the privileges or liberties of the Kingdom of Croatia, "cista seu Archivum". On that occasion for the first time it was mentioned the very expression Archives of the Kingdom of Croatia (later on "Archivum Regni") as a place or just a chest in which were preserved the most precious charters of the medieval Croatia, of the Croatian Parliament and of the Banus as a "viceroy" ("vicerex"), as a head of the Parliament and the supreme commander of the Croatian Army, "exercitus Croaticus" (mentioned already in 1193). But that was nevertheless just one moment in the relativaly long history of the preservation of the most important Acts of the Parliament of Croatia and other charters important for the administration of Kingdom of Croatia. Although some councils of noblemen of the Dukedom of Croatia (later of Kingdom of Croatia) has been mentioned in the early middle Ages, in the 9th c. (852 A.D.) in a charter published according to a tradition by the Duke Trpimir ("... consilium meis cum omnibus zuppanis ..."), it was not until 1273, that a complete protocoll of the Croatian Sabor is preserved in the group of charters called Privileges of Kingdom ("Privilégia Regni"). From that time, the author explains, there is a continuous tradition of preserving this important group of documents. On the begining of 16th c. (about 1505) the first register was made ("Regestum super litteris dominorum regnicolarum regni Sclavoniae", published by the same author 1983 in Arhivski vjesnik). There are many other exemples of preservation of valuable documents either by Croatian Sabor or Church (e.g. Chapter of Zagreb, Split and other) or private archives of feudal families from Middle Ages in Croatia and the author is discussing them as well as the "cartulars" or "transumpts" as various forms of preservation ("conservatio fidelis") of the documents by transcribing them authentically in the new parchments. As for the Privileges of the Kingdom a special "ladula" (a small chest) was made in 1546 and preserved in the sacristy of the cathedral of Zagreb up to 1643, when a new one chest was made, as it is already mentioned by 20