As the Correspondence Office of Imperial Treasury is a unit that acts as the secretary of the ministry, this fonds includes official letters written by the ministry to the state offices in İstanbul and in the country. The starting and ending Hijri dates for this fonds are: 1266-1342.
The documents in Ottoman-Turkish and Arabic kept in the “Cyril and Methodius” National Library contain valuable material for the study of the social, economic, political and cultural development of the Arab countries from the XVIth to the XXth century. These documents offer a rich material for studies in the field of the Arabic and the Ottoman-Turkish diplomatics and paleography, language research, as well as for special regional and town studies.
The documents described are divided into two main documentary collections corresponding to the community's two settlements in Jerusalem: Saint-Pierre en Gallicante and Notre-Dame-de-France.
Community of the Augustinian Fathers of the Assumption in Jerusalem (ACJ)