Foreign documents sent to the Sultan

Yildiz Palace’s archives, Grand Vizierate

Foreign documents sent to the Sultan

Held by Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)

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Reference	TR-BOA/Y/PRK-TKM
Title	Foreign documents sent to the Sultan
Dates	1850-01-01-1909-12-31
Dates Start	1850-01-01
Dates End	1909-12-31
Level of description	Subseries
Extend and medium	Global extent: 3681 files; 9 selected and described items (XLS = 3)

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Repository	Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)
Name of creator(s)	Yildiz Palace (Y)

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Description

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.

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Sources

http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/foreign-documents-sent-to-the-sultan?sf_culture=en

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Fonds - 1 : Yildiz Palace’s archives, Grand Vizierate

Identity area

Reference	TR-BOA/Y
Title	Yildiz Palace’s archives, Grand Vizierate
Covering dates	1830-01-01-1922-12-31
Dates Start	1830-01-01
Dates End	1922-12-31
Level of description	Fonds
Extend and medium	Global extent: 228390 files; 418 selected and described items (373 lines in XLS)

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Repository	Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)
Name of creator(s)	Yildiz Palace (Y)

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Description

This fonds constitutes a very rich collection of documents resulting from the assortment of documents belonging to the rule of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909). It includes 1618 files, 626000 documents and 15679 notebooks. It appears that it includes important documents for this period, which is a fresh field for the research in the history of management. Yıldız catalogues (series) are collected in five main groups; the Main Documents of Yıldız Palace (Yıldız Esas Evrakı), the Official Documents of Grand Vizierate (Sadâret Resmî Maruzât Evrakı), the Officially Presented Documents of Grand Vizierate (Sadâret Husûsî Maruzât Evrakı) and the Daily Documents of Yıldız Palace (Yıldız Perakende Evrakı).

Accruals

The fonds is closed.

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Conditions governing access

Subject to the authorization of Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)

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Rules or conventions	International standard for archival description, General, etc.
Date of the catalogue	February 2018
Archivist's notes	Author(s): Yasemin Avci, Katerina Stathi
Sources	http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/yildiz-palaces-archives-grand-vizierate?sf_culture=en

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Fonds - 1 : Yildiz Palace’s archives, Grand Vizierate