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An Overview of Written Sourcesin Ottoman EthnographyAs is known, with Topkapi Palace Museum RecordNo. D. 97067/5804, dated 1525, notebook 3, documentingmasters organized in palace and their products,reached from Ottoman Empire period today.Such that notebook, Ehl-i Hiref notebooks 4 ,havinginformation about palace records, works of artificersand masters, dated 1640 Narh Notebook 5,including quality and quantity and prices of itemsproduced for people outside the palace, official documentsprotected by some establishments are creatingvaluable written sources. Among them, documentsin Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry GeneralDirectorate of State Archives, General Directorate ofOttoman Archive, such as Firmans 6, Irade, charter,muhime notebooks, establishment of Evkaf-i Humayunin 1255 (1839 Chr.), after this date Meclis-i Vasla,Bab-i Ali Document room Sadaret Papers and EvkafIrade 7 taking place of Hatt-i Humayun draw attention.Except from this archive, there is information indocuments in Topkapi Palace Archive, in DirectorateGeneral of Foundations Archive, Istanbul Office ofMufti Ser’iyye (Qadi) Registers Archive. Samples canbe given to publications made in accordance with thesearch of this papers.8 The Seyahatname of EvliyaCelebi can be belonged to 17th Century.Ser’iyye Registers (Qadi Registers)Importance of Tereke UnitsIn this sense Qadi Registers in Istanbul Office of MuftiSer’iyye Registers Archive which belong to courtssuch as Uskudar, Istanbul, Bab, Galata, Eyup, Balat,Haskoy, Rumeli Sadaret, create important writtensources. The same situation is matter of notebooksprotected in places such as Prime Ministry OttomanArchive. This is handling the same time period andthe dates after them, Istanbul and outside Istanbul9. It is about different time periods cities such as Bolu10, Antalya 11, together with Qadi Registers (Ser’iyyeRegisters), some of them were published, regardingCommunity of Ehl-i Hiref of 18th Century. Moresamples can be given.Material cultural products, in units of Qadi Registerssuch as tereke, muhallefat, hibe etc., are completinginformation derived from extant objective samples.They enlighten Ottoman Ethnography from the beginningof 16th Century. These include valuable informationabout especially extant objective samplesfrom outside the palace, quality and quantity ofportable material cultural items belongs to 16th and17th century and terminology.114The cupboards in the archives of the registers that belong to the Mufti Office of Istanbulare valuable also because they were made in the hands of Sultan Abdulhamid the 2nd.