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Appendix 2

Palace Expenses

A. Expenses for the §ahname-i hassa 960 (1552/1553) to 4. leather (sahtiyan) for bindings, 12 pieces at 20 240
963 (1555/1556): TOTAL 21,056 akçes. 1
5. wages for katiban 7,600
1. gold leaf (varak-i zer) for sprinkling, 178 packs 2,805 a) Ahmed, katib and nakka§, 4,500
2. ink (mürekkeb) 209 for transcribing and
3. paper (devlet-abadi), 356 pieces (kita) 3,392 illuminating two volumes
b) Emir Efendi, for transcribing 1,200
4. paper (semerkandi), 192 pieces 800
one volume
5. gold leaf and lapis lazuli (ladverd) for the chief 200 c) Sofi, one volume 1,900
grinder
6. expenses (hare) for the works of nakka§an for 44,703
6. lapis lazuli, indigo blue (çivid), resin (?, a$i), 185 illuminations, serlevhas, drawing of text lines
vermilion (zencefre), white lead (isfidaç), red lead a) §ah Mehmed, five volumes 6,300
(sülüngen), yellow (zerd), green (sebz), camel (lôk),
soot black (dudé) for the paintings (tasvirat) b) Mehmed Eyyubi, six volumes 5,000
c) AH b. Bayram, three volumes 2,900
7. salary of Mustafa, katib-i §ahname, 962 (1554/1555) 4,620
to 963 (1555/1556), fifteen months and 12 days d) Abdülgani nakkas,, one 4,000
volume
8. subsistence (nafaka) for thirty katiban, 343 days 1,826
e) Kara Mehmed, one volume 6,000
9. subsistence for fifteen nakka§an for 58 days 558 f) Evrenos, two volumes 2,215
10. wages (ücret) for katiban for writing 45,000 verses 4,200 g) ismail, eight volumes 15,788
a) 15,000 verses at 600 h) Haci Abi, katib and nakka§, 2,500
b) 30,000 verses at 3,600 chemicals, for one volume
11. wages for the chief grinder of the katiban 200 7. expenses for bookbindings 3,050
12. wages for the bookbinder, cardboard, and 20 a) Hüseyin Çelebi, seven 1,350
chemicals volumes
b) Mustafa Çelebi, eight 1,300
13. wages for the katib for final copying of the text 1,880 volumes
(beyaz-i §ahname)
c) Hürrem Çelebi, one volume 200
14. wages for the carpenters for constructing 161
partitions in the chamber of the katiban in the d) Haci Hasan Çelebi, one 200
volume
quarters (derhane) of Fethullah Çelebi, the
§ahnameci 8. expenses for inks and other items for the katiban 5,532
a) Mehmed b. §ukrullah 450
B. Expenses for the mesahif-i §erife (Korans) for the cami-i b) Ali b. Husam 360
$erif (Suleymaniye ?) 960 (1552/1553) to 963 (1555/ c) Korucuzade 490
1556): TOTAL 88,489 akçes. 2
d) Abdültayyib 120
1. paper (devlet-abadi), 2,653 pieces (kita) 26,624 e) Kadi Mahmud 1,200
a) 168 pieces at 8 f) Kasim Bey 810
b) 436 pieces at 8.5 g) Dervi§ Çelebi 400
c) 101 pieces at 9 h) Ahmed, brother of above 300
d) 336 pieces at 9.5 i) Hüsam Rumi 200
e) 627 pieces at 10 j) Hamdi b. Mustafa §ahzade 400
f) 144 pieces at 10.5 k) Piri b. Hizir 322
g) 275 pieces at 11 1) Mahmud Macar 100
h) 252 pieces at 11.5 m) Behram katib 380
i) 314 pieces at 12
2. high-quality leather (sagnha-i ala), 14 pieces at 30 420 NOTES
3. cardboard and chemicals for bindings, 16 pieces 320 1. This document, pertaining to the expenses accrued by the palace, is pub-
at 20 lished in Barkan 1979, 69, no. 1.
2. Barkan 1979, 69 and 70, no. m.

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