ARHIVSKI VJESNIK 4-5. (ZAGREB, 1962.)

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When summarizing all above mentioned seven groups one gets the following result: 10.339 Turkish acts, 2 Arabian primer and 1 folio from some Turkish codex 708 Croatian and 251 Italian traslations without some special marks (numbers) 122 documents in Croatian and Italian language 2.539 Croatian and 18 Serbian (cyrillic-bosancica) and 2 transcriptions with special remarks (numbers) 1.497 Italian and 2 documents in Croatian and Italian language with special marks 28 Arabian (later found further 13 pes), 7 Jewish, 2 Armenian, 4 Greek, 8 Latin, 25 French (from which 7 translations), 3 ciphered and 2 German documents (one of them is a formulary). Consequently there are in all 15.580 documents, which are kept as »Acta Turcica« in the State Archives of Dubrovnik. The author of this Statement has checked almost all these data in the past years (from 1956-1961.). The author has referred finally to the succesful Exhibition of historical documents of the State Archives Dubrovnik, which was arranged by the Management of the Archives in course of the touristical season 1956 in the ground-floor of the Sponza palace in which building the Archives itself is too. The oldest exhibited Turkish document was the ferman (edict-bull) of M'ehmed the Second from 1458, by which to the community of Dubrovnik the payment of a yearly tribute of 1.500 gold coins was confirmed. There was exhibited the edict of the same sultan from the year 1471 too, in Greek language with the Turkish tugra and the edict with tugra of Bajezid the Second from the year 1482 in Italian langauge with Latin intextation. By this exhibition the home and foreign public had better occasion to see very seldom copies of the rich treasury of historical acts of the State Archives of Dubrovnik. — 359 —