On 13 January 2026, in the hall of the Library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the promotion of the book Written by Istrian Notaries, Sv. III – Files of notaries of Poreč, Vol. II. Registers of the Notary of Poreč Antun de Teodoris (January 1449 April 1487), organised by Zoran Ladić and Marino Martinčević.
The idea and basic scientific principles of the work on this project were set by dr. sc. Elvis Orbanić, former director of the State Archives in Pazin, while the project was strongly supported by the current director of the Archive Mirela Mrak Kliman, dipl. iur. Editor-in-chief of the edition Files of Istrian notaries is Mirjana Matijević-Sokol.
Edition Files of Istrian notaries was launched in 2008 with the publication of the first book with transcripts of notarial documents by the Labin notary Bartholomew Gervazi (1525. 1550). The second book of the edition, published in 2018, contains transcripts of registers of Poreč notaries Henrik de Artizanibus and Antun de Teodoris, and contains more than 140 documents, regestions, facsimiles and extensive references.
The book presented at the promotion was printed in 2025 and brings transcripts of the registers of the oldest preserved notary book for the Croatian part of Istria. It was published as the third volume of the edition Files of Istrian Notaries, i.e. the second volume of the Register of the Poreč Notary Antun de Teodoris. The book contains a transcript of 245 documents of various types, including sales contracts, dowry and marriage contracts, procuration and apprenticeship contracts, inventory of goods and other legal files.
A special part of the book is Liber testamentorum, which contains 65 wills of male and female inhabitants of the Poreč commune from different social strata. In the introduction, the authors highlight the exceptional opportunities that all three editions offer for scientific research of the medieval history of Istria, almost all aspects of social, economic, legal, cultural and everyday life.
The third volume is written in Latin and script, partly in the Venetian dialect, considering the paleographic, linguistic and content characteristics of the documents. The book also contains a regestion of all documents in the Croatian language, the Personal Names Catalogue and the Geographical Names Catalogue.
The promotion once again confirmed the great scientific value of notarial writings as a source for the study of medieval and early modern history of Istria and the importance of continuing the work on the edition Files of Istrian notaries.
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