''Monumenta Slavorum'' (

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for ''Monuments of Slavs'') were two series of

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s for the history of

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, published by the

Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Croatica, hr, Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, abbrev. HAZU) is the national academy of Croatia. HAZU was founded under patronage of the Croatian bishop Jo ...

: * ''Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum Meridionalium'' (MSHSM, "Monuments pertaining to history of the South Slavs") * ''Monumenta historico-juridica Slavorum Meridionalium'' (MHJSM, "Historical and legal monuments of the South Slavs") Although they were originally envisaged as a collection of sources for the Medieval history of the South Slavs, they were subsequently expanded to cover later centuries as well. The inspiration for their publication had been the '' Monumenta Historica Germaniae'', and encouragement for publishing of the series was given by

Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski (29 May 1816 – 1 August 1889) was a Croatian historian, politician and writer, most famous for the first speech delivered in Croatian before the Parliament. Considered a renowned patriot, Kukuljević was a proponent of ...

and his collection of sources known as ''Iura regni Croatiae, Dalmatiae et Slavoniae'' ("Rights of the kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia", 1861-1862).

MSHSM

After the founding of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1866, the institution under the chairmanship of

Franjo Rački Franjo Rački (25 November 1828 – 13 February 1894) was a Croatian historian, politician and writer. He compiled important collections of old Croatian diplomatic and historical documents, wrote some pioneering historical works, and was a key f ...

took up the task of publishing historical sources, which would serve as primary sources for the historical interpretation of the Croatian statehood. Publishing of the monuments commenced the following year, primarily of those that confirm the Croatian state law, in the series ''Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum Meridionalium''. The laws of egdotics were used in publishing the sources, in accordance with the principles of contemporary European historiography. In the MSHSM series several sets of sources collected into thematic and temporal units by renowned experts such as: * Šime Ljubić: ''Listine o odnošajih između južnoga Slavenstva i mletačke republike'', I–X, 1868–91 *

:''Documenta historiae Chroaticae periodum antiquam illustrantia'' 1877 *

Radoslav Lopašić Radoslav Lopašić (1830–1893) was a Austrian Empire, Croatian historian and member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. Lopašić was born on 20 May 1830 in Karlovac, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia). His father was Mirko Lopaši� ...

: ''Spomenici hrvatske Krajine'', I–III, 1884–89 *

Ferdo Šišić Ferdo Šišić (9 March 1869 – 21 January 1940) was a Croatian historian, the founding figure of the Croatian historiography of the 20th century. He made his most important contributions in the area of the Croatian early Middle Ages. Life Ši� ...

: ''Acta comitialia regni Croatiae, Dalmatiae et Slavoniae'', I–V, 1912–18 * : ''Monumenta Habsburgica Regni Croatiae, Dalmatiae, Slavoniae'', I–III, 1914–1917 *

Vjekoslav Klaić Vjekoslav Klaić (21 June 1849 – 1 July 1928) was a Croatian historian and writer, most famous for his monumental work ''History of the Croats''. Klaić was born in Garčin near Slavonski Brod as the son of a teacher. He was raised in German ...

: ''Acta Keglevichiana annorum 1322–1527'', 1917 The particularly fertile period was until 1918, when 43 volumes were printed. After long delays, and only periodic publishing, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts has revived the issuance of MSHSM after 1990, and the last volume was published in 2002. 53 volumes were published in total.

MHJSM

''Monumenta historico-juridica Slavorum Meridionalium'' commenced publishing in 1877 with a series ''Statuta et leges''. The series was intended to cover a variety of sources of legal significance (primarily codes, statutes and

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), and the rationale for the methods of their publication was given by Baldo Bogišić in the book ''Pisani zakoni na slavenskom jugu'' (1872). Other editors of the series were: *

: ''Urbaria lingua Croatica conscripta'', 1894 *

Konstantin Vojnović Konstantin "Kosta" Vojnović ( sr-Cyrl, Константин Војновић; ; March 2, 1832 – May 20, 1903) was a Croatian Serb politician, university professor and rector in the kingdoms of Dalmatia and Croatia-Slavonia of the Habsburg m ...

: ''Bratovštine i obrtne korporacije u Republici Dubrovačkoj'', I–II, 1899–1900 * Ivan Strohal: ''Statut i reformacije grada Trogira'', 1915 Šime Ljubić and other renowned historians. In this series sources collected by Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski and Radslav Lopašić were printed. Only 13 volumes were published in the series, the last one in 1979. Although some of the monuments (documents, statutes) have experienced modern editions in the past two decades, both of the series contain valuable and indispensable sources for the study of Croatian and South Slavic history.

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