İstanbul’un Asayişine ve Taşraya Dair Yazılı Emirler

The unique manuscript of the compilation, most of which consists of orders concerning public order in Istanbul and the state organization during the reign of Sultan Mahmud I (1730–1754), is registered at the Süleymaniye Library, Esad Efendi, no. 3360. The book İstanbul’un Asayişine ve Taşraya Dair Yazılı Emirler contains approximately eighty-six hatt-ı hümayuns, buyuruldus, and other orders and decrees concerning such matters as ensuring that women’s use of coach carriages conformed to regulations; preventing women from walking in bazaars and marketplaces with their faces uncovered; prohibiting them from adorning themselves and going to public recreation areas; the paving of streets; the rapid transfer to Istanbul of tax revenues arriving from Egypt; where and how cannon festivities were to be held; prohibiting certain ships from entering the Golden Horn; preventing animals from grazing in Muslim cemeteries; prayers to be offered against plague epidemics; certain palace officials; the money-changing profession; preventing abuses involving esame; the remission of the cülûsiye tax; and preventing indiscriminate entry into Istanbul. The work also contains numerous other noteworthy texts on these subjects.