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Job title

Cinayet Baskitabeti

Group of job titles: Correspondence and registry

1 official held the job title Cinayet Baskitabeti. Its 6 annual entries run from 1870 to 1876 (AH 1287 to 1292). The median of the 6 recorded monthly salaries is 760 kuruş, against 542.5 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Veliko Tarnovo (Tırnova).

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1287 to 1292, 6 years with an entry
1870 to 1876
Median monthly salaryfrom 6 recorded salaries
760 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Correspondence and registry

No source read describes Cinayet Baskitabeti by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Offices that wrote, copied, registered and kept the papers of a department: correspondence offices (tahrirat), the offices of the corresponding secretary (mektubi), records offices (evrak) and registrars (mukayyit).

Hard skills

  • official writing (kitabet, inşa) and fine handwriting, taught first in the offices and from 1839 in schools for officials

History

Before the reforms clerks were trained in the offices (kalem) themselves. Boys of twelve, or even seven or eight, attended an office and learned the forms of official writing from senior clerks; after three to five years without pay they became supernumeraries (mülazım) on a small salary.

Sources

  1. Akyıldız, Ali (2019). Mekteb-i Maârif-i Adliyye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, supplement vol. 2 (revised third printing), 236-238. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 236. Used for: hard skills, history.
  2. Findley, Carter V. (1980). Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Pages or part: 78, 171-172, 199. Used for: summary.
  3. İpşirli, Mehmet (2001). Kalemiye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 24, 248-249. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 248-249. Used for: hard skills, history.

Places

Places of Cinayet Baskitabeti, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Veliko Tarnovo (Tırnova)Danube (Tuna) province161870 to 1876

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Cinayet Baskitabeti
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Ahmet Lutfu Efendi1870 to 18766760Veliko Tarnovo (Tırnova)

How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.

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