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Collections of letters patent bestowing titles of nobility (16th to 18th centuries)
and marriage announcements of the aristocracy ( 18th to 19th centuries) are to be found
in the Arc hives of Slovenia in Ljulbljana. A collection of Partezetteln of particularly
influential persons from the 19th and 20th centuries are in the Archives of Croatia in
Zagreb and in the Archives of Slovenia.
Quite often, there are also COllections of coats of iirms. In the Archives of
Croatii;l there arose after the year 1890 a collection of documents which had to do with
the acquisition or changing of coats of arms, and which covers the period from 1454
to 1918. As a further example r the museums of Kater and Split have a significant
collection of pictures of coats of arms. For the province of Slovenia the chief source
of coats of arms is the book by Zacharias Bartsch from the year 1567. There is also
the handwritten manuscript of the Krainian historiographer J L. Schdnleben, "Appendix
ad Annales ..• sive Genealogica Fragmenta Fimiliarum Nobilium Carnioliae" (1674)
which is kept in the Archives of Slovenia and the handwritten manuscript of J. V.
Valvasor "Opus Insignium Armorumque Regum et Regnorum nec non tam aliorum quam et
Carnioliae Principum, Baronum, Nobilium, Ci iTitatum et Oppidorum S.S. ", which
appeared 1687-88 and is kept in the Southern Slavic Academy of Science in Zagreb,
and the record book of the Dismas Brotherhood of Krainian aristocracy which appeared
before 1801 and can be found in the Archives of Slovenia.
In the Archives of Croatia, a significant collection is that of genealogical
data of aristocratic families which was compiled by the then state archivist, E.
Laszowski and which covers the times from the beginning of the 19th century until the
year 1945. In the city archives of Ljubljana is preserved the genealogical collection
of Lazzarini wherein is contained in card form, excerpts and articles about the genealogy
of the Krainian aristocracy and some other significant families.
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