Ja, Krsto Lučin Dubrovčanin, činim ovi testamenat

"Ova je knjiga nastala na temelju magistarskog rada Jezična analiza hrvatskih dubrovačkih, oporuka iz 17. i 18. stoljeća obranjenoga 2004. godine na Filozofskome fakultetu u Zagrebu, pod mentorstvom dr.sc. Darije Gabrić-Bagarić. Jedanaest godina kasnije tekst je dorađen i dopunjen transkripcijom oporuka te aneksnim rječnikom.Iz ove se knjige lako iščitava da jezik dubrovačkoga puka, građana i vlastele nije bio ništa manje narodan i domoljuban od jezika proslavljene ..." -- Croatian website. "This book is based on a master's thesis which is linguistic analysis of the Croatian dialect spoken in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in the 17th and 18th centuries. The thesis was defended in 2004 to the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Zagreb, under the supervision of Darius Gabric-Bagaric, Ph.D. Eleven years later, the text has been is revised, supplemented, and reprinted as this edition..." -- cataloger's summary and judgment of a Croatian website.