Call Number:

C1251

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Miscellaneous Ottoman Turkish Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1802-1929 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections

Form:

Deeds -- Ottoman Empire -- 19th century., Legal documents -- Turkey -- 19th century., and Manuscripts, Turkish -- 19th century.

Abstract:

Consists of selected official and legal documents from the period of the late Ottoman Turkish Empire.

The collection consists of selected official and legal documents in Ottoman Turkish, Greek, and Arabic, such as dowry agreements, property transactions, deeds for land, contracts, receipts, court orders for payments, and promissory notes, accounts, and notes of money borrowed. Some of the documents are marked with a Tuğra, or the Turkish royal cipher, and others refer to the Greek island of Kos. One document, dated August 25, 1926, and addressed to the court of his Royal Highness Fu'ad I King of Egypt, is a court order for an individual to pay another a certain sum of money; otherwise the court will seize that person's possessions. Some of the documents are enirely handwritten, and some are printed but with the names, dates, and the details of the cases added in manuscript`.