Identity area
Reference code
TR-BOA/A-DVN
Title
Registers of Head of the Government Chancery Office
Date(s)
- 1840-01-01-1922-12-31 (Creation)
Level of description
Subseries
Extent and medium
Global extent: 19565; 41 selected and described items
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This series includes the public’s presentations about various issues, ranging from the collection of grain tax to property suit, debt collection, tax collection, enteoff, transportation of goods and cereals as well as writings regarding the decrees and ordinances written to the vizier, governor-general, provincial governor, kadi and sub-district governor and the letters written to Supreme Council (Divan-ı Humayun) by the officials in the provinces such as vizier, governor-general and provincial governor.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1256-1341.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Chronological arrangement.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
These registers are the finding aids for all the files of the Ottoman administration.