Yildiz Palace’s archives, Grand Vizierate
Held by Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA)
Reference | TR-BOA/Y/MTV |
Title | Diversified Petitions |
Dates | 1876-01-01-1909-12-31 |
Dates Start | 1876-01-01 |
Dates End | 1909-12-31 |
Level of description | Series |
Extend and medium | Global extent: 46574 files; 81 selected and described items (XLS = 80) |
Repository | Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office (BOA) |
Name of creator(s) | Yildiz Palace (Y) |
Description | This series includes official letters, permission and similar documents directly presented to the Palace Secretary by the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Marine, Imperial Arsenal of Ordnance and Artillery (Tophane-i Amire), the Ministry of Judicial and Religious Affairs, the Ministry of Foundations, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Commerce and Public Works and the Ministry of Police as well as other ministries and the Office of Sheikhulislam (Meşihat Dairesi). In addition, it includes petitions, complaint letters, gratification letters and petitions sent by the public directly to the Palace Secretary. Documents usually deal with military issues, events in and out of the state, security, Armenian issue, banditry and violation of the frontiers. Besides, there are also some judicial, çivil, financial and foreign problems dealt with in these documents. The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1293-1327. |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/diversified-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 |