Zarko Vujosevic, Veljko GluscevicInstitute for Balkan Studies of the SASA, Belgrade

Picking up the pieces:Written heritage

of medieval South Eastern Europegoing online

ENArC projectArchival Cooperation and Community Building in the digital age

Prague 2015

Dubrovnik 209

Athos 175(Hilandar 98)

Istanbul 8

Montenegro 17

Serbia 18

Sofia 8

Meteora 7Ioannina 1

Moscow 4

Bari 1

Milano 2

Debrecen 2

Vienna 2

Zagreb 11

Venice 30

Barcelona 1

Budapest 19

Bratislava 2

Bucharest 1

Rome 3

Paris 1

Prague 1

Lesnovo 1

Pecs 1

Dispersion of Serbian diplomatic material

New York 1

On Monasterium.Net Photos/scans obtainedPhotos/scans partially obtained

Currently available collections on Monasterium

Selected Serbian royal documents from the 14th century (Serbische Herrscherurkunden, 1306-1388)

Serbian Royal Documents at the State Archives in Dubrovnik (1186-1479)

Serbian Charters in Archives of Hungary (1411-1481)

Bulgarian Medieval Documents: The Second Bulgarian Empire (1192-1396)

Serbian Medieval Documents in the State Archives of Venice (1208-1460)

Serbische Herrscherurkunden (1306–88) • A test collection containing 18 documents of several rulers

• Document images of various quality (photos, book scans)

• Different archival provenance (Athos monasteries, Dubrovnik, Belgrade, Cetinje, Venice, Bari)

• Presentation format: document name (yyyymmdd – issuer) additional date information (byz, cca, taq/tpq, ?) abstract and diplomatic analysis (in German) full text of the existing editions (xml, CEI standard); Old Slavonic letters transcribed pursuant to the Unicode Standard 5.1, Cyrillic

Serbian Royal Documents at the State Archives in Dubrovnik

Collection data content

Includes 168 documents with 205 individual copies currently at the Dubrovnik Archives

Does not include documents originally from the Archives, now preserved at other locations or lost

Presentation format

Document names as bearers of information

Abstract and diplomatic analysis (in English)

No full text transcriptions (yet)

Images (front, back, seal) as well-readable photos of 72 dpi

Serbian chartersin Archives of Hungary

(1411 – 1481)

Serbian Medieval Documents in Hungary

• 22 items located (use of MOL online database!)

• 19 in Budapest, Magyar Országos Levéltár

• 2 in Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár

• 1 in Pécs, Pécsi Püspöki Levéltár

• all documents from the 15th century (1411–1481)

• authors: despot Stefan Lazarevic (8), despot Djuradj Brankovic (12)and his descendants (2)

• subjects: administration of the estates of Serbian rulers in Hungary; political issues

• language: Latin

Collection on Monasterium.net

Data content

All 22 documents with 23 individual copies

Presentation format

Abstract and diplomatic analysis (in English)

No full text transcriptions (yet)

Images (front, back, seal) as well-readable print screens (MOL database)

Bulgarian Medieval Documents:The Second Bulgarian Empire

Dispersion of Bulgarian Diplomatic Material

• Vatican archives: 11 documents

• Mount Athos: 8 documents (Zograf 4, Vatoped 2, Hilandar 2)

• Constantinople: 3 documents

• Venetian archives: 2 documents

• Rila monastery (Bulgaria), St. Petersburg, Dubrovnik, Genoa, Brashov: one document each

Presentation Format of Bulgarian Documentson Monasterium.net

date and place of issuing short abstract original date from document seal description and seal ownermaterial, dimensions, possible damages place of keeping tradition (original, copy, transumpt, forgery, fragment) other copies editions languague images

Serbian Medieval Documentsin the State Archives of Venice

• cca 30 documents from 13th to 15th century

• issuers: mostly rulers of Serbia and various regional lordships

• subjects: mostly diplomatic correspondence and treaties; one royal donation to a Catholic monastery (King Milutin, 1306)

• status: only three originals; the rest authentic copies in official Venetian registers

• language: mostly Latin/Italian; some Serbian

Serbian documents in the State Archives of Venice

• 25 documents located during visit

• 22 authentic copies – metadata limited to abstract, status, current repository, quote (date formula), editions and language + textual descriptions of seals

• three originals – metadata includes other text witness elements (material, dimensions, seal, condition)

• monasterium-standard high resolution images

Collection on monasterium.net

Further collections – work in progress

Medieval documents kept in Belgrade15 items scattered in three institutions: Archives of Serbia, Museum of the SOC, Archives of the SASA

Documents of Serbian rulers in Mount Athos monasteries175 documents, of which 98 in Hilandar

Diplomatarium Serbicum Digitale (DSD)

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