Acta Croatica

[1] The collection contains documents of Croatian medieval history from the beginning of 12th to the end of the fifteenth century.

Its first edition was prepared by Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski who published it in 1863 in the JAZU series Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum meridionalium (Vol.

The new edition of Acta Croatica was prepared by Đuro Šurmin who published it in 1898 in the Academy's series Monumenta historico-juridica Slavorum meridionalium (from 1100 to 1499, Vol 6, book 1).

[1] Since both editions have a variety of diplomatic and linguistic errors, and readings are often unreliable and do not conform to modern principles of publishing critical editions of medieval documents, Yugoslav Academy decided to publish a new edition of Acta Croatica in accordance with critical palaeographic, linguistic, transliteration and diplomatic principles for publications of medieval sources.

In 1917 this task was entrusted to the linguist Stjepan Ivšić, who critically processed much of the material, which was also expanded with newly discovered documents to 1541.