Inspectorship and Commissariat
This subseries includes documents regarding Rumelia Province Inspectorship and Rumelia provinces; the official writings of the Inspectorship and Commissariats; the writings of the staff at Egypt Fevkalade Commissariat, Bulgarian Commissariat, Inspectorship and Commissariat as well as reports and rough drafts.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1284-1326.
Issued on the Matters Discussed by the State Council (Şura-yı Devlet)
This subseries includes the correspondences between the Yıldız Palace and such offices as the Tanzimat Office, the Court of First Instance, the Office of Interior Affairs of Council of State (Şura-yı Devlet Muavinliği), Council of State’s Office of Interior (Şura-yı Devlet Dahiliye Dairesi), Council of State’s members, the Court of Appeal (İstinaf Hukuk Mahkemesi), the Civil Service Office of Council of State (Şura-yı Devlet Mülkiye Dairesi) and the Committee of Statistics.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1289-1330.
Judicial and Religious Affairs
This series includes correspondence between the court and the Ministry of Judicial and Religious Affairs.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1278-1327.
These catalogues belong to the dates 1246-1316/1830-1899 of the Section of the Daily Documents of Yıldız Palace and contain the correspondences between the military offices and Yıldız Palace. In the catalogue with 10777 documents, there are usually correspondences with the offices charged with military problems, such as Office of the Minister of War, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Marine and Imperial Arsenal of Ordnance and Artillery.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1246-1327.
This subseries includes correspondence between Yıldız Palace and embassies, Consulates and the attaches’ offices. There are also writings directly sent by the embassies, consulates and attaches’ offices to the court; documents directly sent to the court by the committees, companies and similar organisations abroad; and documents sent by the Counsellor, interpreter and Acting ambassador at the embassies with their own stamps to the Private Secretariat of the Sultan head clerk.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1293-1326.
This subseries includes correspondence from the sultan’s imperial secretaries and senior military officials with the court.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1293-1327.
This subseries includes correspondence between the court and the Ministry of Imperial Treasury. Also, letters signed by the Minister of Imperial Treasury, the writings coming from the Emlak-i Hümayun İdaresi, petition of the imperial chamberlains’ requests as well as the writings about Imperial Treasury.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1264-1328.
This catalogue is in the Yıldız Perakende document, containing the documents between 1845-1909. It includes documents regarding the petitions, journals, letters, praises, unsigned reports (layiha) and remarks (mütalaalar) and persons’ letters of congratulation and thanks.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1262-1327.
This subseries includes the documents with the letterhead of the Office of Imperial Protocol (Teşrifat-ı Umumiye Dairesi); translations of the documents from the ambassadors and the speeches and addresses that the ambassadors made with the sultan; the dinner parties with the state presidents, ambassadors and so on; the documents concerning the content of the meetings; and the documents about the selamlık and awarding ceremonies for the kings, princes, ambassadors and so on.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1293-1326.
“The Regulation of Council of Minister” (Meclis-i Vükela Dahili Nizamnamesi), dated 1 March 1879, subordinated the whole performance and all the actions of the government to the permission of the sultan, so it was necessary for the Grand Vizierate office to give the sultan information about anything that the government would do and to take permission from him. This series includes official letters written to the court by the Grand Vizierate but did not have an imperial rescript. Grand Vizierate Official Requests with an imperial rescript are in the section of “Assortment of Imperial Rescripts”.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1293-1327.