Zbirka Baltazara Bogišića: Rukopisa

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Country

HR

Name of institution (English)

The Institute for Historical Sciences in Dubrovnik

Name of institution (official language of the state)

Language of name of institution

hrv

Contact information: postal address

Lapadska obala 4, 20000 Dubrovnik

Contact information: phone number

001 385 20 356 222

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Contact information: email

Title (English)

Collection of Baltazar Bogišića: Manuscripts

Title (official language of the state)

Zbirka Baltazara Bogišića: Rukopisa

Language of title

hrv

Creator / accumulator

Baltazar Bogišić

Language(s)

hrv
lat

Extent

164 storage units

Type of material

Textual Material

Scope and content

The Baltazar Bogišić collection comprises 15,000 printed books and brochures, 200 journals, 66 incunabula, 164 manuscripts and 165 geographical maps.
Among the manuscripts of this collection, there are three handwritten copies of works by the Sephardic poet Diogo Pires (1517-1599):
N. D. a. 5.: "Commentarius Ludovici Cervarii Tuberonis de origine et incremento urbis Rhacusanae eiusdemque ditionis descriptio auctore Nicolao Joannis de Bona et Stephani Gradi antiquitatum Rhacusanarum brevis diatriba. His accedit de illustribus familiis, quae Rhacusae extant, ad amplissimum senatum elegia Didaci Pyrrhi. Cum notis et supplementis. Rhacusii 1790 typis Andrea Trevisan". Manuscript copy of the 1790 edition of Ludovici Cervarii Tuberonis' commentary on the origins and development of Ragusa, including an elegy by Diogo Pires.
N. D. a 18, pag. 249: "Jacobi Flavii Eborensis, seu Didaci Pyrrhi Lusitani De Rhacusinae Urbis Laudibus Carmen quod habetur in Bibliotheca Vaticana inter Numero 113333". A poem by Diogo Pires, which was found in the Biblioteca Vaticana, number 113333.
N. D. a. 29.: "Didaci Pyrrhi Lusitani elegiarum libri tres ad dominicum slatariccium patavinae scholae rectorem et equitem splendidissimum accessit lyricorum libellus eodem auctore". Manuscript copy of Diogo Pires's elegies to the Ragusan poet Dinko Zlatarić (1558–1613).

Archival history

This collection was established in 1909-1912 by Baltazar Bogišić’s sister, Marija Bogišić-Pohl. Since 1955, the collection has been part of the Institute for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Dubrovnik. It is housed in the building of the Kneževa Palace in Cavtat since 1958.

Administrative / Biographical history

Baltazar (Baldo) Bogišić (1834-1908) was an internationally renowned legal historian, a polymath, and a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (today Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) from its very foundation.

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Access, restrictions

The Baltazar Bogišić collection is inaccessible for consultation until (expectedly) April 1, 2024.

Author of the description

Carla Vieira, 2023

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Zavod za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku Collections (official language of the state)