It served for Cyrillic transcription by Romanophones in the city in correspondence with Serbia and other Slavic lands in the interior; with the Serbian Orthodox and members of the Bosnian Church.
Only in the 14th century, there were scribes belonging to the lower classes, whose biographies are harder to determine.
Three early names of chancellery scribes are known from between 1278 and 1336: Ozren, Stojan Ceprić (1312–19, a nobleman[1]), and Stefan Benčulić.
[2] During the rule of King and Emperor Stefan Dušan (r. 1331–55), Jaketa Krusić was a chancellery scribe (ca.
[2] The next known chancellery scribes were Maroje Niklić (1379–87), Vidoš Bogdanić (1388–89, from Korčula), Rusko Hristoforović (1392–1431, an important figure), Nikša Zvijezdić (1431–1455, sometimes known as Nikola[1]) and Marinko Cvijetković (1455–74).