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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von · 1820

...and the Timar-defterdar fief-accountant of individual Sanjaks. 4) On Sipahis and Timariots fief-holders of the Sanjaks. 5) What Timar, Ziamet, Kilij, Hissa are. 6) On the confusion by which these fiefs have been undermined. 7) Conclusion on the care of preventing the destruction of fiefs.
The second book of this work deals with the Ottoman army, its number, and pay, as well as the offices of the court and the empire:
I. Land army. Section 1) On Janissaries. 2) On Sipahis. 3) On Jebeji (guards of the arsenal). 4) On Topchi (that is, those who assemble war engines/cannons). 5) On Toparabaji (that is, those who transport the cannons).
II. On the navy and sea fleet.
III. On the outer court of the palace, which follows the Sultan to war, in seven sections.
IV. On the inner court of the Sultan, in four sections.
Book Three. It is the book 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 in collecting revenues and tributes from the land and its fruit, written in a script very difficult to read, peculiarly used in the accounts of the public treasury, large folio.
92. Mukhtalagha-i Rum-ili dar zaman-i Hadrat-i Reis al-Kuttab Mustafa Efendi Catalog from the chancery of Reis Mustafa Efendi concerning granted fiefs and other pragmatic expeditions in the current year of the Hegira 1087 (1669). Codex large oblong folio, written in the script as above, and believed to have arrived in Vienna among the spoils during the time of the Turkish wars.
93. Table of the accounts of the treasury in the script Shekeste broken or Tujma that is, written in fractured [ciphers] and Divani figures: The text is in Persian here and there for the sake of brevity and perhaps also secrecy; the numbers are written with half-letters of power, which the famous S. de Sacy first brought to light on a bronze plate added to his grammar. The Turkish word Tujma or fracture is not to be confused with the Kirmati script, which, even though it is handed down by many Oriental philologists as a type of Kufic script, nevertheless did not become known at all among the Orientals of the recent age.
94. Canunname of Sultan Suleiman, or his decrees on the questions of the Mufti Ebussuud Efendi, and many statutes on fiefs.
95. Collection of Canons, Fermans, various instruments, etc.
96. Nasihat-nama Book of Canons of Sultan Ibrahim under the name Book of Counsel, most famous.