Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 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 -- 4. COLLECTIONS OF ORIENTAL DOCUMENTS IN EUROPE -- 5. PUBLICATIONS OF ORIENTAL DOCUMENTS -- II. PALEOGRAPHY -- 1. WHITING MATERIALS -- 2. WRITING IMPLEMENTS -- 3. THE ARABIC SCRIPT AND ITS DEVELOPMENT -- 4. TYPES OF SCRIPT USED TN 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 -- 10. SOURCES FOR OTTOMAN HISTORY -- 11. POLAND'S RELATIONS WITH ORIENTAL COUNTRIES -- IV. ANCILLARY DISCIPLINES -- 1. CHRONOLOGY -- 2. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES OF RULERS -- 3. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY -- 4. NUMISMATICS -- 5. ELEMENTS OF TURKISH HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY -- APPENDIX -- INDEXweiterlesen