List of illustrations

List of abbreviations of periodicals and societies

Editor’s note

I. INTRODUCTION

1. Definition and scope of Oriental paleography and diplomatics

2. History of the study of Oriental diplomatics

3. Collections of Oriental documents in Turkey and in other Asiatic countries

Turkey

Egypt

Syria

Asiatic Russia

4. Collections of Oriental documents in Europe

Austria

Bulgaria

Czechoslovakia

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Italy

Poland

Rumania

Sweden

Switzerland

United Kingdom

USSR

Yugoslavia

5. Publications of Oriental documents

Austria

Bulgaria

Czechoslovakia

Denmark

Egypt

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Israel

Italy

Poland

Rumania

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

United Kingdom

USA

USSR

Yugoslavia

II. PALEOGRAPHY

1. Writing materials

2. Writing implements

3. The Arabic script and its development

4. Types of script used in Ottoman documents

5. Abbreviations

6. Cryptographic symbols

III. DIPLOMATICS

1. Terminology of Ottoman documents

2. Description of documents

3. Methods of folding and preserving documents

4. Arrangement of components of documents

5. Copies and transcripts of documents

6. Forgeries of documents

7. Translations of documents

8. Documents of the Crimean Tatars

9. Basic facts of the structure of the Ottoman Chancery

List of reis efendis from the 16th through the 18th centuries

List of chief dragomans

10. Sources for Ottoman history

11. Poland’s relations with Oriental countries

List of translators of the Crown Chancery

List of envoys to the Ottoman Empire

List of envoys to the Crimean Tatars

List of envoys to Persia

List of Turkish envoys in Poland

List of Polish-Turkish treaties

IV. ANCILLARY DISCIPLINES

1. Chronology

2. Chronological tables of rulers

Sultans of the Ottoman Empire with dates of accession

Crimean Khans

Shahs of Persia

Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire with dates of investiture

3. Historical geography

4. Numismatics

5. Element of Turkish historical bibliography

APPENDIX

Conversion tables of A. H. and A. D. dates

INDEX