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The Rogovo Abbey Archives

Tomislav Galović ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odsjek za povijest i Zavod za hrvatsku povijest


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The Benedictine royal monastery of St. John the Evangelist in Biograd na Moru was founded in 1060. Due to its biggest property, Rogovo, it also bore that name, and after Republic of Venice in 1125 destroyed Biograd and the monks of the monastery moved to the nearby island of Pašman, it was known by the name of St. Cosmas and Damian. This monastery, as well as the records created and kept in it, is of the great importance for our medieval and later history. Every Benedictine monastery had a library of varying size and also an archive where monastery documents were deposited and kept. We do not have direct information on the archive of the monastery of St. John the Evangelist in Biograd, but the contents of the monastery chartulary Libellus Policorion and all the diplomatic material later kept in the monastery witness the tradition of keeping documents and other records. When Biograd was destroyed in 1125, the same fate also befell the monastery of St. John the Evangelist. From that year also dates the first devastation of the monastery’s records and also of the documents and books necessary for its normal functioning. In 1345 during the conflict between King Louis the Great of Anjou and Republic of Venice, the monastery was badly destroyed, as witnessed by the medieval chronicle Obsidio Iadrensis. On that occasion the monastery archive was blown up i.e. scattered. In 1357 the then abbot Gregory complained to Pope Innocent VI about the devastation of the monastery and the archive by the Venetians, particularly about tearing and purloining the papal lead-made bulls from the document of Clement VI. Hence in 1358 the Pope called upon the Venetians to make amends for the damage they caused. The afore mentioned events − and it is very likely that there were similar ones, albeit with smaller meaning and consequences − caused great damage to the monastery and monks’ community in its entirety. The formal dissolution of the St. Cosmas and Damian monastery happened in 1808, the result of which was the transfer of the biggest and the most valuable part of the monastery archive into the newly established Governor’s Archives in Zadar. The same thing happened to several other monasteries. Thusly, the archive began a new life in a new place, but was soon also met there by the new political circumstances. Regarding the provenance of the fonds entitled Documents of St. Cosmas and Damian monastery, one must emphasize one more fact, that this fonds contains several documents that are in no relation whatsoever with the monastery and some of them not even with the greater Dalmatian area. Today the State Archives in Zadar keep in total 199 items on parchment and 12 boxes of other records belonging to the Benedictine monastery of St. Cosmas and Damien at Tkon on the island of Pašman, which totally makes 2, 5 meters of records for the period 1060-1806. When one compares the quantity of those records with the Archives from other Benedictine monasteries from Zadar, the archive of St. Krševan that has 816 documents and 23 boxes, which amounts to 3, 5 meters of records dating from the 9th century to 1806 and the archive of St. Mary with as much as 1045 parchment sheets dating from 1236 to 1676, then we can conclude that the Rogova archive is middlesized, yet extraordinary in its meaning.

Ključne riječi

Archive; records; diplomatic archives; the Benedictine order; the monastery of St. John the Evangelist in Biograd na Moru; the monastery of St. Cosmas and Damian on Ćokovec near Tkon on the island of Pašman; State Archives in Zadar

Hrčak ID:

103120

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/103120

Datum izdavanja:

11.12.2012.

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