Job title
Mektubi Kalemi Musevvit
Group of job titles: Correspondence and registry
Stored spellings: Mektubi kalemi musevvit
1 official held the job title Mektubi Kalemi Musevvit. Its 4 annual entries run from 1881 to 1885 (AH 1299 to 1302). The median of the 4 recorded monthly salaries is 900 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1299 to 1302, 4 years with an entry
- 1881 to 1885
- Median monthly salaryfrom 4 recorded salaries
- 900 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Correspondence and registry
No source read describes Mektubi Kalemi Musevvit 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.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 1 | 4 | 1881 to 1885 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Rıza Efendi | 1881 to 1885 | 4 | 900 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Mektubi Kalemi Musevvit
- 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)