Catalogue of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Manuscripts of the Imperial Library of Vienna

55. Insha-yi Jami Collection of Persian letters by the most famous poet Dschami.

56. Munshaat Azmi Collection of letters, the autograph codex of which we reviewed under No. 52, consisting of only nine folios, in which 13 letters to various Viziers, etc., are contained.

57. Insha-yi Tadschzade Mohammed Efendi Collection of letters by Tadschzade Mohammed Efendi; some folios are missing. There follows an erotic letter, and a few couplets of songs commonly called "Turki".

58. Collection of Turkish letters in oblong folio. It contains letters of the writer Nerkesisade presented to the Mufti Jahja by Sheikh Mohammed f. Mohammed. Nerkesisade was a contemporary of Weisi and Abdolkerim, whose letters are contained in codex No. 52. These are followed by letters transcribed from the collection of Jahja Efendi and Sinanzade Mohammed, which are primarily by Ganalizade, Abusuud, Nevizade, Aaschiktschelebi, Oktschizade, Sebzi Brussensis, Lamii, letters of Sultan Suleiman to Shah Ismail, etc.

59. Insha Collection of Turkish letters, in Divani script, 4to.

60. Turkish treatise on the art of epistolography, author unknown.

61. Collection of Sultanic mandates concerning various business, 8vo.

62. Collection of Turkish letters regarding various business, written by the hand of a certain interpreter.

63. Collection of petitions of the Sipahis Ottoman cavalrymen concerning pay increases.

64. Original writings of men established in public office, collected together.

65. Another collection of the same kind.

66. Synopsis of three hundred letters dealing with business, transcribed by the hand of a certain Imperial and Royal interpreter, Schmid, fol.

67. Latin translation of the preceding codex by the same interpreter.

68. Writings of men established in public office, collected together.

Although this collection of Turkish Epistolographers should be highly valued for the use of students, a much more copious one exists in the Imperial and Royal Academy of Oriental Languages; for it possesses, besides half a hundred collections called Insha, several thousand letters, mandates, diplomas, contracts, and letters of every kind, public and private, written in Divani, Sulus, Kirma, and Neschi scripts. The most famous authors of the collections called Insha whose works were reviewed above, or are held in the collection of the Imperial and Royal Academy of Oriental Languages, are these: Nergisi, Abdolkerim, Tadschzade, Ishak Khwaja, Nabi, Rami, Raghib, Shakir, Subhi, Weisi.