Vienna April 16th 1717
Parchment, manuscript, Latin, 18 parchment leafs (the second leaf is illuminated: watercolours, gold colour, partly Indian ink, a coat of colour that was added at a later date)
39 x 31 cm
Manuscript book, bound: green velvet with green silk ribbons and a hanging small seal of Charles VI in wax, in a wooden box without a lid. The illuminated parchment leaf shows the scene of eleven men swearing allegiance to Charles VI. Above the throne is the Austrian coat of arms form the time of Charles VI, and to the left and right are three coats of arms on each side. They include the coats of arms of the Kingdom of Croatia and the Kingdom of Dalmatia.
By this document Charles VI Hapsburg had confirmed to the Vlach community that had settled in the Varazdin Military District the Statuta from 1630. By this act the military population of the Varazdin Military District enjoyed the privileges only on paper, because the provisions of the Statuta were never put into practice.
On the basis of the Records 'concerning the exchange of the items that took place in the offices of the Croatian History Museum, between the said Museum and Mr Zeljko Gorcey, a civil servant with his residence in Subiceva ulica 13 in Zagreb, on February 13th 1951... and on the basis of the agreement reached with the museum professional staff and the Ministry of Science and culture, Danica Svalba, head of the Museum, has agreed to give Mr Gorcey four miniature family portraits in exchange for five documents of the 'Vlach Privileges' from the 17th and 18th centuries.'
