This detailed book by two librarians specialized in history and culture dedicates one section to each library, introducing its history, its collections, its catalogue, earlier published catalogues and publications about the library, together with a cumulative bibliography of the manuscripts located in each library and bibliographies containing information about them.
“This is part of a growing corpus of bibliographical guides to libraries and archives in Turkey, Cyprus, and the Arab world published by IRCICA. The Introduction is itself an edifying history of libraries and librarianship in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, providing as well a description of IRCICA’s manuscript projects. This guide unquestionably renders researchers in the Ottoman field an immense service.” Jane Hathaway, Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 20, no. 2, 1996
“In order to facilitate the task of researchers, the book is supplemented with six original indexes which are prepared taking into account all imaginable possibilities. A guidebook necessary for collectors and all book lovers.” Tombak-Kitap, Vol. 12, 1997.
