[Governmental and commercial documents and correspondence in Ottoman Turkish]

Timespan:

Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

Date:

1787

Description:

A collection of Ottoman Turkish bureaucratic and financial documents. They correspond to items 2 through 9 on an accompanying list in English from before 1860. Item 2: a document regarding a school for orphans with seal dated 1201 A.H.; Item 3: document with terms for the establishment of a waqf (foundation endowment); Item 4 recto: a letter regarding the black market (ihtikar), dated 1261 A.H.; Item 4 verso: a petition about concubines and the response to the petition; Item 5: a waqf register and calculations; Item 6: a petition about grave remains; Item 7: the evaluation of a complaint by Kara Yusuf about water distribution; Item 8: a marriage registration certificate, dated 1263 A.H; and Item 9: an order to the officials of the Rumkale and Kilis district to help Omer Aga with the collection of taxes to be collected for 63 years from tribes in two districts in Sivas.; Item 2: [Document regarding a school for orphans] -- Item 3: [Waqf contract terms] -- Item 4 recto: [Letter regarding the black market (ihtikar)] -- Item 4 verso: [Petition about concubines] -- Item 5: [Waqf register and calculations] -- Item 6: [Petition about grave remains] -- Item 7: [Water regulation complaint] -- Item 8: [Marriage certificate] -- Item 9: [Tax collection order].

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/msoversize22.html

Subject:

History; Waqf

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Turkish; Manuscripts, 19th century; Manuscripts (documents); Commercial correspondence; Legal correspondence; Legal instruments; Marriage certificates; Sources; Trivia and miscellanea

Physical Description:

8 items + 3 notes : paper; various

Geographic Subject:

Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Miscellanea; Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Sources; Turkey

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. leaves.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Layout: Various layouts, mostly written in long lines rising on the left side; items 1 and 2 have a tughra at the top.; Script: Written in dīwanī, nastaʻlīq and ruqʻah in black and red inks; pointed.; Decoration: Rubrications in red.; Binding: Unbound; collection of loose leaves.; Origin: Items are dated between 1201 and 1264 A.H. (1787 and 1848).; Cataloging assistance provided by Neslihan Mervenur Vural.; Ottoman Turkish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Oversize 22