Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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• bibid: 9935740973503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1241709118
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/msoversize22.html

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Date

A.H. 1201-1264 (1787-1848)

Summary

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.

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• Ms. leaves.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Cataloging assistance provided by Neslihan Mervenur Vural.
   
• 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].
   

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Subjects topical

• Waqf
• Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Miscellanea
• Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Sources

Genres

• Manuscripts, Turkish
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Commercial correspondence
• Legal correspondence
• Legal instruments
• Marriage certificates

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Table of contents

• Item 2 recto — [Document regarding a school for orphans]
• Item 3 recto — [Waqf contract terms]
• Item 4 recto — [Letter regarding the black market (ihtikar)]
• Item 4 verso — [Petition about concubines]
• Item 5 recto — [Waqf register and calculations]
• Item 6 recto — [Petition about grave remains]
• Item 7 recto — [Marriage certificate]
• Item 8 recto — [Water regulation complaint]
• Item 9 recto — [Tax collection order]
• Note 1 recto — List in English
• Note 2 recto — Re: Item 2
• Note 3 recto — Re: Item 9