О хиландарским повељама у Сремским Карловцима
Chilandar charters in Sremski Karlovci

Summary/Abstract: Before 1761, the Chilandar hieromonk Timotej (Jovanović) brought several medieval charters to Sremski Karlovci (Karlowitz), without the knowledge and approval of the monastery administration. The same year, some of them were taken over by Prohegumen Pajsije and returned to the monastery. The charters were brought for the theologian and historian Jovan Rajić, who was at the time a teacher at the Latin School in Sremski Karlovci, and who needed them as a resource while preparing the monumentally conceived History of Various Slavic Peoples, Notably the Bulgarians, Croats, and Serbs, published in four volumes three decades later. Rajić stayed in Hilandar in 1758 seeking to collect historical sources, but he did not manage to get access to the charters on that occasion, so he found a way to have them brought to Sremski Karlovci. It was at Chilandar that he read them, and it was there that he copied six charters to be used in his book. In line with the spirit of the time, he paid greater attention to the literature than to sources. Due to this, he cited information from charters in notes, to support his account in the discussion section of the book. Regardless of this, Jovan Rajić is merited as the first Serbian historian to use the Chilandar charters in a book guided by scholarly ambitions. The author of this paper demonstrates that Hieromonk Timotej (Jovanović) brought to Jovan Rajić eleven Chilandar documents: a manuscript copy of the Karyes Typikon, a collective charter of King Stefan Dušan to the Chilandar monastery, a manuscript copy of King Milutin’s founding charter for the pyrgos in Chrusia, a manuscript copy of the charter of Emperor Dušan on Livada and Paleokometica, Emperor Dušan’s charter on the boundaries of the Chilandar estates in Serbia and Romania, a manuscript copy of the charter of Emperor Dušan on the boundaries of the Chi landar estates on Mount Athos, Prince Lazar’s charter on the Chilandar infirmary, Vuk Branković’s charter on the villages of Gornja Gadimlja and Donja Gadimlja, a manuscript copy of the charter issued by Mara Branković and her sons on the village of Orahovac, Mara Branković’s charter on Dubrovnik’s income, and the charter of a Vlach aristocrat to Chilandar. In 1761, Prohegumen Paisije managed to return to the Chilandar monastery no more than seven charters. The others were retained in Sremski Karlovci and are now held by the Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade; these namely include Vuk Branković’s charter on Gornja Gadimlja and Donja Gadimlja, Emperor Dušan charter on Livada and Paleokometica, and his charter on the Chilandar es tates in Serbia and Romania, while the founding charter for King Milutin’s pyrgos in Chrusia, was lost in the meantime.

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