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

terkaja referring to the Defterdar, or financial officer and the Timartefterdar fief registrar of individual Sandschagorum districts. 4) On Sipahis cavalrymen and Timariotis fief-holders of the districts. 5) What Timar fief, Ziamet larger fief, Kilidsch sword, and Hissa share mean. 6) On the confusion by which these fiefs have been undermined. 7) A conclusion on the care to prevent the ruin of the fiefs.

The second book of this work deals with the Ottoman army, its number and stipend, as well as the offices of the court and the empire:
I. Land army. Section 1) On Jenitscheris Janissaries. 2) On Sipahis cavalrymen. 3) On Dschebedschi armory guards. 4) On Topschi artillerymen (i.e., those who set up war engines). 5) On Toparabadschi artillery transporters (i.e., those who transport war engines).
II. On the fleet and naval affairs.
III. On the exterior retinue of the court, which follows the Sultan to war, in seven sections.
IV. On the interior court of the Sultan, in four sections.

Third book. It is the codex of punishments of Sultan Suleiman, in four sections. The author finished his work in the year 1029 of the Hegira.

91. Canons of the treasury of individual provinces of the Turkish Empire regarding the collection of revenues and taxes on land and its produce, written in a character that is very difficult to read, peculiarly used in the accounts of the public treasury, large folio.

92. Mukhtalifa-i Rum-ili dar zaman-i Hazrat-i Reis al-Kuttab Mustapha Efendi Miscellaneous items of Rumelia in the time of the Chief Secretary Mustapha Efendi. A catalog from the chancery of Reis Mustapha Efendi concerning granted fiefs and other pragmatic expeditions during the current year of the Hegira 1087 (1669). An oblong large folio codex, written in the character mentioned above, and believed to have arrived in Vindobona Vienna among the spoils during the Turkish wars.

93. Table of treasury accounts written in شکسته broken script or قرما fracture, i.e., broken, and with Divani chancery script ciphers. The text is in Persian here and there for the sake of brevity and perhaps secrecy. Power numbers are written in semi-letters, which the most celebrated S. de Sacy first brought to light in a bronze table added to his grammar. The Turkish word قرما fracture must not be confused with carmatic writing, which, even though it is handed down by many Oriental philologists as a type of cufic script, has in no way become known among Orientals of the recent age.

94. Canunname Sultani Suleimani Book of Canons of Sultan Suleiman, or his decrees regarding questions of Mufti Ebusuud Efendi, and several statutes concerning fiefs.

95. Collection of Canons, Fermans, various instruments, etc.

96. نصيحتنامه Book of Counsel. Book of Canons of Sultan Ibrahim, most well-known under the name Book of Counsel.