Confirmation of the privileges granted to the Wallachian community in the Varazdin Military District


Vienna February 20th 1659 Parchment, manuscript, Latin, 14 parchment leafs 32 x 25.5 cm Manuscript book, bound: parchment decorated with monochrome trimming; on the spine on the inside of the cover a part of an older manuscript on parchment and the remains of a hanging seal. Leopold I confirms the privileges granted by Ferdinand II and confirmed by Ferdinand III to the Vlach community that had settled in the area of the Varazdin Military District. On the basis of the Records 'concerning the exchange of the items that took place in the offices of the Croatian History Museum, between the said Museum and Mr Zeljko Gorcey, a civil servant with his residence in Subiceva ulica 13 in Zagreb, on February 13th 1951... and on the basis of the agreement reached with the museum professional staff and the Ministry of Science and culture, Danica Svalba, head of the Museum, has agreed to give Mr Gorcey four miniature family portraits in exchange for five documents of the 'Vlach Privileges' from the 17th and 18th centuries.' F. Moacanin, Vojna krajina do kantonskog uredenja 1787, Vojna krajina, Zagreb, 1984.




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