چكيده لاتين :
The Ottoman Kings paid great attention to production and preservation of books. Also, they established libraries to encourage the nobles, commanders and princes to pay special attention to collecting books. This attention increased after the Ottoman political and cultural relationships expanded with the Safavid government of Iran, Consequently, many libraries and collections were established all through the Ottoman territory, and many manuscripts were gathered or brought from different countries, particularly lrom Iran, and were preserved in the libraries. Although the main part of the collected manuscripts were in Arabic, the number of the Persian manuscripts increased in these collections, due to the Turkish noblesʹ interests in the Persian poetry and literature. As a result, today, there arc many Persian as well as Arabic manuscripts preserved in the Turkish libraries and collections.
The Present paper attempts to account for a general picture of the Persian manuscripts housed in the Turkish libraries, relying on the information gained from the catalogued manuscripts. According to the survey, 1307 Persian books/treatise have been catalogued in the Turkish Libraries. The figurestands for almost %45 of the extant Persian manuscripts, while it is probable that about %55 of the Persian manuscripts available in Turkey are not yet catalogued.
