Job title
Meclis Baskitabeti
Group of job titles: Correspondence and registry
4 officials held the job title Meclis Baskitabeti. Its 15 annual entries run from 1873 to 1904 (AH 1290 to 1321). The median of the 15 recorded monthly salaries is 2,000 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 3 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Istanbul, with 3.
- Officials
- 4
- Years on recordAH 1290 to 1321, 14 years with an entry
- 1873 to 1904
- Median monthly salaryfrom 15 recorded salaries
- 2,000 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 3
Profile of the group: Correspondence and registry
No source read describes Meclis 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Where the job was held
| Place | Officials | Remark |
|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 3 | |
| Suriye | 1 | |
| Tekirdağ | 1 |
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 3 | 12 | 1873 to 1904 |
| Suriye | Syria (Suriye) province | 1 | 2 | 1892 to 1894 |
| Tekirdağ | Edirne province | 1 | 1 | 1873/74 |
Ottoman officials recorded
4 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mustafa Munir Bey | 1895 to 1904 | 9 | 1,620 to 2,000 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
| Yusuf Agah Bey | 1873 to 1876 | 3 | 2,000 to 2,500 | Serres (Siroz) |
| Ali Rıza Efendi | 1892 to 1894 | 2 | 1,750 to 2,100 | Tokat |
| Yusuf Agâh Bey | 1873/74 | 1 | 2,000 | Serres (Siroz) |
Years run from the first to the last annual entry. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Meclis Baskitabeti
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)