Follow the original documents: personnel registers, administrative papers and manuscript images, with their archival references and access conditions.
The Post and Telegraph careers in this collection come from personnel records. Further research begins with the exact register, file and page. A catalogue description helps locate that document; reading its image supplies a different level of evidence. The examples below keep original scans, historical copies and modern reproductions distinct.
The Ottoman Archive’s DH.SAİD.d registers are the first route for original Sicill-i Ahvâl entries. Use an exact register and written page; a name alone does not identify the correct record.
Search the State Archives catalogue (BETSİS)
Read a selected public personnel-register scan
Researcher authentication is required for this catalogue route. Direct original-image access was not verified in an authenticated session here.
İSAM’s Ulema Sicil Dosyaları (İKA USD) catalogue records religious officials’ personnel files. The live collection policy makes descriptions available online and provides a request route for digital document copies.
Browse the ulema personnel-file catalogue
Copies can be requested from arsiv@isam.org.tr using the full İKA reference. The collection records that the originals were transferred to the State Archives.
The Meclis-i Meşâyih collection includes publicly accessible original register images beside modern Latin transcriptions. The original 1747 register was downloaded and visually checked.
Browse the Meclis-i Meşâyih collection
Read the complete original register 1747 (PDF)
Other Meşihat registers and copy conditions have a separate catalogue and institutional request policy.
Download the document references and access evidence (JSON)
These 12 examples provide direct document links and exact source references. They include administrative papers, original register scans and a clearly labelled thesis reproduction. Access was checked on 12 October 2026. The observations identify what was inspected; they are not complete transcriptions of every page.
Hüseyin Hilmi Paşa papers
İKA HHP-A-1-dos.3-0648
A petition addressed to the Midilli mutasarrıf requesting an increase in salary.
Two images show the recto and verso of one paper, Ottoman handwriting, corrections and a seal.
Catalogue description; scan visually inspected without an Ottoman transcription.
Not transcribed in this pilot
Hüseyin Hilmi Paşa papers
İKA HHP-H-1-e-1380
Correspondence from Grand Vizier Mehmed Ferid to Hüseyin Hilmi Paşa concerning Halil Bey's appointment to an inspection clerical office.
Two images show a handwritten letter on Bâbıâli/Sadaret stationery and its reverse.
Catalogue description; scan visually inspected without an Ottoman transcription.
Not transcribed in this pilot
Hüseyin Hilmi Paşa papers
İKA HHP-B-dos.1-1346
Certificates from the Aydın and Syria provincial councils concerning his salary while serving as a provincial secretary (mektupçu).
Three document images include provincial council headings, multiple seals and revenue stamps. Salary amounts have not been extracted.
Catalogue description; scan visually inspected without an Ottoman transcription.
Not transcribed in this pilot
Hüseyin Hilmi Paşa papers
İKA HHP-B-dos.1-0358
A letter concerning alleged irregularities involving Nuri Efendi, an imperial-estates director in Damascus.
One image shows Ottoman handwriting. The catalogue describes an allegation; this letter does not establish a conviction.
Catalogue description; scan visually inspected without an Ottoman transcription.
Not transcribed in this pilot
Ebüzziya family papers
İKA ZE-A-1-a-0119
An archival copy of his personnel account, correspondence concerning a French education honour, and a chronological service list.
The PDF includes a modern cover, a personnel-register photocopy, an honour-letter copy and two images of the same later compiled career table.
Catalogue description; scan visually inspected without an Ottoman transcription.
Not transcribed in this pilot
Meşihat / Meclis-i Meşâyih
İKA MŞH MMD-1-a-1747-orj.
A complete publicly downloadable register from the administration of Sufi institutions under the Meşihat.
Sample images show Ottoman handwriting and signatures. PDF pages 2, 3, 11 and 101 correspond to written pages 1, 2, 10 and 99; the final PDF page is the cover. PDF image count and catalogue extent are different units.
Catalogue description; scan visually inspected without an Ottoman transcription.
Not transcribed in this pilot
İstanbul Kadı Sicilleri
İstanbul Mahkemesi 334; image selector 1a; asset ist334o577
A court-register comparator for legal and institutional research, with the original image available alongside a modern edition.
The image shows Ottoman writing and a stamp; manuscript pages 1 and 2 are reproduced on the spread. This is a court record, rather than a civil personnel file.
Catalogue description; scan visually inspected without an Ottoman transcription.
Not transcribed in this pilot
BOA DH.SAİD.d / Marmara thesis reproduction
BOA DH.SAİDd.2/182; written page 363; facing page 364
Akyıldız identifies the reproduced register entry as Hasan Ali's. The image and thesis citation provide a documentary association with his existing dossier.
The visible archive strip reads DH.SAİDd.00002 and the spread is numbered 363–364. The thesis caption cites 2/182. The meaning of 182 has not been established.
Thesis caption and citations, checked against the reproduced image.
Ottoman text not independently transcribed
Hasan Ali Efendi. The thesis identifies this entry; the register and written page agree with this dossier's archival identifier.
BOA / OpenJerusalem selection
TR-BOA/DH-SAİDd/7-445
A publicly viewable image from a selected set of BOA personnel-register records. The item description does not identify the official.
An open manuscript register spread carries a visible DH.SAİD 0007 strip. The individual item number comes from the catalogue; the name and Ottoman text have not been read.
Catalogue description; scan visually inspected without an Ottoman transcription.
Not transcribed in this pilot
BOA / OpenJerusalem selection
TR-BOA/DH-SAİDd/7-449
A publicly viewable image from a selected set of BOA personnel-register records. The item description does not identify the official.
An open manuscript register spread carries a visible DH.SAİD 0007 strip. The individual item number comes from the catalogue; the name and Ottoman text have not been read.
Catalogue description; scan visually inspected without an Ottoman transcription.
Not transcribed in this pilot
BOA / OpenJerusalem selection
TR-BOA/DH-SAİDd/7-451
A publicly viewable image from a selected set of BOA personnel-register records. The item description does not identify the official.
An open manuscript register spread carries a visible DH.SAİD 0007 strip. The individual item number comes from the catalogue; the name and Ottoman text have not been read.
Catalogue description; scan visually inspected without an Ottoman transcription.
Not transcribed in this pilot
BOA / OpenJerusalem selection
TR-BOA/DH-EUM-MH/54-10
The catalogue describes Ahmed Tevfik Efendi's transfer from Jerusalem to Karasi and a consequence for two months of salary.
The PDF contains a modern BOA cover and one handwritten document on an Ottoman administrative form. The catalogue's reading has not been independently transcribed.
Catalogue description; scan visually inspected without an Ottoman transcription.
Not transcribed in this pilot
The published Latin-script Turkish edition of Meclis-i Meşâyih register 1747 supplies transcribed text, editorial summaries and original image identifiers. Its first two entries on PDF page 5 correspond to manuscript records 146 and 147 on written pages 1 and 2, shown on pages 2 and 3 of the original facsimile.
Read the Latin-script Turkish transcription (PDF) · Transcription catalogue: İKA MŞH MMD-1-a-1747-pdf
This is the scholarly transcription published in 2025, offered as a 132-page PDF. Its identifiers provide a route back to the original manuscript; a transcription and its source image remain distinct evidence.
Retain the archive, fonds or collection, full file reference, written page or folio, and PDF image number. Preserve the source’s calendar and uncertainty. A modern transcription can help read a manuscript, but it should remain identified as a transcription. A photographed archival spread reproduced in a thesis remains identified as a reproduction.
A source’s availability does not establish that it concerns an official in this collection. Matching a person requires compatible dates, places, family or service details and an appropriate archival reference. The primary-document examples here are source access checks; they do not create additional biographies or person matches.
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi can provide context and further archival citations. Its name-search review directory is supplementary: title overlaps remain leads unless a separate identity check supports a match.