_ 262 _ but the proper evaluation of this type of material begins in 1945 with the publication by Professor Ömer Lutfi Barkan, of the Faculty of Economics in Istanbul, of a collection of 107 Qanünnames from all parts of the Empire(A). These, though only a part of the number existing, give an invaluable guide to this material and its contents. The greater part of the Tapu Defterleri is to be found in the Archives in Istanbul, where there are 1,072 bound volumes, covering most of the provinces of the Empire. The collection is by no means complete, especially in the later period, from which most of the surviving defters seem to have been transferred to Ankara, where they are kept in the Tapu ve Kadastro Müdürlügü and still used in the adjudication of land cases both in Turkey and in the succession states. These I was not permitted to consult. But enough remains in Istanbul to make possible a detailed picture of the Empire, as regards population, Vienna, 1815, 2 vols. (Egypt-I, pp. 101-143, Syria and Iraq-I, pp. 219-241). (A) XV ve XVI inci Asırlarda Osmanlı Imparatorlugunda zirai ekonominin hukuki ve mali esasları vol. i, Kanunlar, Istanbul, 1943. This volume contains Qanünnames for Mosul, Kirkuk, Nehr-i Sherif, Aleppo, Tripoli, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Safed, and an extremely important Qanünname for Egypt, dated 931/1524, from the Süleimaniye library in Istanbul.
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