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The notebooks in the catalogue were obtained from various institutions and booksellers and include various types of notebooks belonging to the Ottoman state organization. These books, which reached our institution at different times and in an irregular manner, and which do not have subject integrity, have been brought together and turned into a compilation catalog.
The collection brings together notebooks from different administrative and judicial fields such as finance, land registry, and population. While the notebooks vary in content and form, they are important primary sources that shed light on the functioning of the Ottoman bureaucratic structure, provincial-administrative relations and social structure.

Dr. Bora Keskiner, who studies Ottoman art history and specializes in Islamic calligraphy, created this collection by gathering letters, manuscript notebooks and manuscript notes he obtained from various booksellers. The collection, which presents a portrait of the Mevlevi community in post-Republican Istanbul, is an important source in terms of showing how the Sufi environment in Ottoman society has gone into a transformation with the Republican period. In this respect, the collection is especially remarkable for research on the history of Sufism in the recent period.
The documents dated between 1927 and 2000 are organized in four folders and 124 files. The majority of the letters in the collection consist of correspondence sent to Mevlevi sheikh Sadık Kurç. While Sadık Kurç's correspondence with Halil Can constitutes the most comprehensive series of the collection, his correspondence with Mehmet Ceylan also occupies an important place. In addition, song sheet music notebooks by Bestenigâr Ziya Bey and Halil Can's handwritten texts are among the outstanding documents of the collection.

The archive, which is among the most important written sources of Turkish music today, contains nearly 83.000 pieces of sheet music, 182 manuscript notebooks and retail copies of sheet music, and 478 books and journals on Turkish music. The 7,428 works in 182 manuscript notebooks have been cataloged and opened for research.

These documents, which are examples of primary sources on the last period of the Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Republic through the eyes of the Ebüzziya family, a family of journalists, are divided into two groups: the Ebüzziya family and Ziyad Ebüzziya. The first group of documents begins with journalist, writer, publisher, and calligrapher Ebüzziya Mehmed Tevfik and continues with his sons Talha Ebüzziya and Velid Ebüzziya. Featuring correspondence with late Ottoman intellectuals, such as Ali Suâvi, Server İskit, Yunus Nadi, Recāizāde Mahmud Ekrem, family correspondence, articles published in the newspaper Tasvîr-i Efkâr, numerous works printed at Matbaa-yı Ebüzziyâ, and works with arabesque decorations, the document group contains valuable documents and information that shed light on the last period of the Ottoman Empire. The second document group consists of the correspondence of Ziyad Ebüzziya, the grandson of Ebüzziya Mehmed Tevfik, who lived in the Republican period, with the prominent figures of the period, in addition to calendars, postcard samples, and more. They were printed at Ebüzziya Printing House and constitute a private collection. The collection contains a wealth of material such as photographs, engravings, maps, and newspaper clippings. The documents included are dated between 1837 and 1993 and are categorized in 177 folders and 3,878 files.

The digital copies of 6,835 personal files, the originals of which are housed in the Istanbul Muftī’s Office Mashīkhat Archive, can be examined in the ISAM Library Archive. The files consist of a variety of documents, such as status translations, ijāzatnāme, population and salary certificates of civil servants who served in different accidents, and regions and levels under the office of the shaykh al-islām (grand muftī). Some of the files consist only of envelopes and do not contain the status translations.

The collection of correspondence of Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, who was the Grand Vizier at the time of the March 31st Incident, is an important source for researchers interested in late Ottoman history, the Committee of Union and Progress, the Balkans and Macedonia. Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha's official and personal correspondence is an important primary source for national and international political developments in the Balkans, especially during his Rumelia Inspectorate. The documents from this inspectorate period account for more than half of the collection.

The presence of Hamparsum sheet music and original sheet music in the collection written by Kemal Batanay (1893-1981), a composer of Turkish music and ta‘līḳ calligrapher, makes this archive valuable. The collection mostly consists of rare works written by musicians. Among the most prominent documents in the archive are 1,342 pieces of sheet music written in Kemal Batanay’s own handwriting, 789 printed and 860 photocopied sheet music, 55 original and photocopied notebooks, and 396 compilations. The collection, which covers the dates when the owner of the collection lived, is organized in 30 folders and 2,137 files.

This catalog is based on the compilation of digital data obtained from 5739 registers in the Istanbul Mufti's Office (Meşihat) Archive. The registers span from the 16th to the 20th centuries and encompass records from various offices, including Şeyhülislamlık, Rumelian Qadiasker, Anatolian Qadiasker, Nakibüleşraf (chief of the noble notables), Istanbul and Bilad-ı Selase Qadiliks. Additionally, it includes registers related to the Bab-ı Meşihat councils and documents shedding light on the activities of certain members of the religious scholars' class. The digital versions of these 5739 registers are accessible for examination within the ISAM Library.

Mehmed Safayhi (1890-1977) served as a sorting officer at the Süleymaniye Library Directorate between 1937 and 1970. The 216 files of this collection are categorized under seven headings: bibliographic works, index and miscellaneous works, letters, family, professional documents, miscellaneous, poetry, prayers, and notes. The notebooks, which are available in full text, contain bibliographic information on hundreds of works. The alphabetically successive notebooks were prepared by Mehmed Safayhi during his tenure as a sorting officer at the Süleymaniye Library and can be used as a guide for cataloging manuscripts.

Prof. Dr. Muḥammad b. Tāwīt al-Ṭanjī (1918-1974) was a Moroccan scholar of literature, fiqh, and history known for his scholarly publications. The collection includes works on history, literature, philosophy, hadith, astronomy, and many other subjects. The collection, which consists of notebooks, miscellaneous documents, and bibliographic fiches, is organized in three groups. Notebooks constitute a significant portion of the 550 documents. These notebooks, which largely contain academic notes, include bibliographical information, indexes, and various works, as well as research that al-Ṭanjī started but did not complete. The miscellaneous papers include 189 letters. The collection, which dates from 1814 to 1997, is classified in 96 folders and 768 files.