Split-Poljica Documents from the XVIIth and the XVIIIth Century

Ove smo isprave naslovili «splitsko-poljičke» jer su izdane u Splitu, a odnose se na Poljičku župu (županiju), odnosno Poljičku Republiku. Riječ je o trideset i šest originalnih i diplomatičkopovijesnoj javnosti nepoznatih dokumenata ili isprava u širem smislu riječi iz XVII. i XVIII. stoljeća. Ponajviše su to pisma, kupoprodajni ugovori te odluke i otpisi splitske Crkve pod čijom je jurisdikcijom i Poljička Republika, ili kraće rečeno Poljica, koja su u to doba pod mletačkom vlašću, odnosno pod njenim generalnim providurima za Dalmaciju i Albaniju sa sjedištem u Zadru. Originali se tih predmetnih isprava trenutačno nalaze kod autora, a one su samo dio sačuvanog «poljičkog blaga». Izvan ovih, određeni dio poljičkih isprava objavili su razni autori, ali je najveći dio ostao neobjavljen i nalazi se po raznim pismohranama Hrvatske i inozemstva, župnim uredima, a ponajviše u privatnom vlasništvu pojedinih Poljičana. Općenito gledano, većina je poljičkih isprava pisana na hrvatskom jeziku, hrvatskom ćirilicom, odnosno bosanicom ili “glagoljicom”, kako to pismo nazivaju Poljičani, pa onda jedan dio prevođen na talijanski, ali ih je nekolicina izvorno napisana i na talijanskom te onda prevedena na hrvatski jezik. U našem slučaju, donesene splitsko-poljičke isprave u većini su slučajeva pisane talijanskim pa onda prevođene na hrvatski jezik. Za pojedine se to izričito i kaže, a za druge se vidi po redoslijedu teksta, pri čemu se donosi prvo talijanski pa onda hrvatski. To je ovisilo o kancelaru Splitske nadbiskupije, pod čijom su tada crkvenom jurisdikcijom, kako je spomenuto, i Poljica, koji je u navedeno doba očito protežirao talijanski jezik. Donesene isprave obrađujemo s diplomatičko-povijesnog stajališta, odnosno s općenito kronološko-povjesničarskog gledišta. Bosaničke transliteriramo u latiničko pismo, opisujemo njihove izvanjske osobine i donosimo povijesni sadržaj teksta isprava. U transliteraciji teksta pojedine riječi pišemo početnim velikim slovima, kao što su početak isprave, imena, prezimena, toponimi, pojedini važni pojmovi i slično; ponegdje razdvajamo riječi kako bi tekst bio dostupniji današnjem čitatelju, a sve ostalo ostavljamo kako je pisano u izvornicima. U pogledu interpunkcije pak ostavljamo sve kako je u izvornicima, osim što ponegdje stavljamo točku, i to u slučajevima kad je i u izvorniku stavljen neki znak koji bi po ustrojstvu rečenice odgovarao današnjoj točki. Na kraju, u prilozima donosimo i faksimile većine izvornika tih dokumenata. I ovaj rad pripada nizu uradaka o neobjavljenim poljičkim dokumentima. Stoga, uz ograničenost prostora, ovaj put ispuštamo unutarnje osobine ili analizu diplomatičkih formula tih isprava, jer su one analogne analiziranim formulama u prethodnim radovima o poljičkim ispravama.We have labeled these documents the «Split-Poljica» documents because they were issued in Split but they were connected to the Poljica Republic. We are dealing here with thirtysix documents and papers from the XVIIth and the XVIIIth century which are original and unknown to the diplomatic-historical public. In most cases these are letters, sale contracts and the decisions and rescripts of the church in Split under whose jurisdiction was the Poljica Republic or the settlement of Poljica which at the time was under Venetian rule, that is under its general provveditore for Dalmatia and Albania with its seat in Zadar. The originals of these documents are presently in the possession of the author and they are only a part of the preserved “Poljica treasure”. In addition to these, a certain part of the Poljica documents have been published by various authors but the greater part has remained unpublished and is to be found in various archives in Croatia and abroad, in parish offices and, the largest part, amongst the private possessions of individuals from Poljica. Generally speaking, the majority of the Poljica documents were written in Croatian, in the Croatian Cyrillic script, that is Bosnian Cyrillic script or the “Glagolithic script” as this writing is known in Poljica. Later a part of these were translated into Italian while some of them were originally written in Italian and afterwards translated into Croatian. In this case, the Split-Poljica documents were in the majority of cases written in Italian and then translated into Croatian. For some of them this is explicitly stated while for others this can be established owing to the order of the texts since one first has the Italian and then the Croatian text. This depended on the chancellor of the Split Archbishopric under whose jurisdiction, as mentioned earlier, was Poljica where it is obvious that Italian was the preferred language. We analyze these documents from the diplomatic-historical standpoint, that is from the general chronological-historical perspective. We transcribe the Bosnian Cyrillic script into the Latin script, we describe their external features and we present the historical content of the document’s text. In the transcription of the text we write certain words with the initial capital letter such as is the case with the beginning of the document, names, surnames, toponyms, certain important concepts and similar items; in certain instances we break up words so that the text becomes as assessable to the contemporary reader as possible, while all the rest is left as it appears in the original. In regard to punctuation we leave everything as in the original, except that in certain places we insert full stops, especially in those places where the original has some sign which according to the structure of the sentence would correspond to today’s full stop. The present article belongs to a series of papers dealing with unpublished Poljica documents. Because of this, alongside the restriction of space, this time we leave out the interior features or the analyses of the diplomatic formulas of these documents because they are analogous to the analyzed formulas in previous articles dealing with Poljica documents