Yildiz Palace’s archives, Grand Vizierate
Held by Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)
Reference | TR-BOA/Y/A-HUS |
Title | Special Petitions |
Dates | 1877-01-01-1908-12-31 |
Dates Start | 1877-01-01 |
Dates End | 1908-12-31 |
Level of description | Subseries |
Extend and medium | Global extent: 45203 files; 100 selected and described items |
Repository | Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA) |
Name of creator(s) | Yildiz Palace (Y) |
Description | The subseries called the Officially Presented Documents of Yıldız Grand Vizierate (Yıldız Sadâret Husûsî Maruzât Evrakı) includes the private requests presented to the court by the Grand Vizierate office so as to inform the sultan about the domestic or foreign problems and events. The documents deal with Şarki Rumelia and Armenia questions, Crete question, Egypt question, Italia’s intervention in Africa and so on. It also includes writings about international affairs and Ottoman State’s policy, foreign press’ articles about the Ottoman State, and correspondence regarding these writings. The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are: 1294-1326. |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/special-petitions?sf_culture=en |
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) |
Repository | Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA) |
Name of creator(s) | Yildiz Palace (Y) |
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. |
Conditions governing access | Subject to the authorization of Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA) |
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 |