The 1638 inventory of state palaces in the local administrative units of the Republic of Dubrovnik

Abstract

Published and analyzed in this paper are the seventeenth-century inventories regarding the equipment of the state palaces serving as seats of the administrators (counts, captains) in the local units of the Republic of Dubrovnik. A system of control through comparing the condition of the items at the yearly handover between the counts was introduced already in the fifteenth century, but the inventories are extremely rarely preserved. The newly discovered central register of 1638 from the State Archives of Dubrovnik is especially valuable as it provides a survey regarding the administrative units of Konavle, Cavtat, Župa, Slano, Janjina, Trstenica, Lopud, Šipan, and Mljet.