Showing 25 results

Archival description
Yildiz Palace’s archives, Grand Vizierate Subseries
Advanced search options
Print preview View:

Military Affairs

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.

Correspondence with officials

This subseries includes the correspondences with the official persons sent by the court, governorships, lieutenant offices and state for inspection.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1251-1326.

Financial Affairs

This subseries includes bills and letters of Public Debts Commissariat to the Ministry of Finance; income and expense lists of Ministry of Finance; petition of the Directorship of Istanbul Quay Company (İstanbul Rıhtım Şirketi İdaresi); tables showing the provincial budgets; general budget summaries prepared by the Ministry of Finance and presented to the Babıali; inquiry reports of the finance inspectors sent to the provinces; income and revenue notebooks arranged by the Council of Public Debts Administration (Düyun-ı Umumiye İdare Meclisi); and correspondences with the Directory of Monetary Affairs (Meskukat İdaresi) and the Duty Office as well as Imperial Ottoman Bank (Bank-ı Osmanî) requests.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1262-1331.

Missing English title

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.

Missing English title

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.

Foreign documents sent to the Sultan

Covering the dates 1267-1327/1850-1909 and consisting of 6485 documents, this catalogue includes the petitions and journals written to the sultan in a foreign language, the original documents without their translations and the documents in their translations though their originals are absent. Also, it has the bills presented by the foreigners in various subjects; the foreign companies’ petitions including their offers; the invoices and manifestos; the translations whose interpreters are unclear; the unsigned official letters that are interpreted; the writings in a foreign language that are not interpreted; and the printed documents in a foreign language, some interpreted and some not.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1267-1327.

Private Secretariat of the Sultan

This series includes documents written by the Private Secretariat of the Sultan head clerk to the provincial governorships, sub-provincial governorships, commanderships, embassies and inspectorships and to the ministries in the capital city; it also includes the official letters and their summaries written by the Private Secretariat of the Sultan head clerk to the sultan about various issues.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1272-1330.

General correspondence between the office of zaptieh and Yıldız Palace

This subseries includes the correspondences between the office of zaptieh and Yıldız Palace on the whole. It also includes documents resulting from the correspondences with such offices as Beyoğlu Sub-provincial Governorship (Beyoğlu Mutasarrıflığı), Üsküdar Sub-provincial Governorship (Üsküdar Mutasarrıflığı), Beşiktaş Police Centre, İstanbul Police Centre, The General Directory of Prisons (Hapishane-i Umumiye Müdüriyeti), Police Inspectors’ Petitions, Theatres’ Inspectorship and Patrols’ Inspectorship.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1282-1327.

Sultan’s diplomatic and protocol correspondence

This subseries includes the letter-like documents written to the sultan and on behalf of him; letters written by the prince, kings, emperors and other state presidents to the sultan through Palace Secretariat Başkatipliği, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and embassies and the letters written by the sultan; the sultan’s letter of thanks and congratulations to his relatives and others on the occasions of (accession to the throne), bairams, condolence, and so on.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1284-1327.

Results 1 to 10 of 25