Transcription and evaluation of Kastamonu Court record number: 21 the page:104-222 (A.H.1128-1129/A.D.1716-1717)

Şer'iyye Registers are notebooks that contains records about the legal relations between people from every layer in the central and provincial levels in the Ottoman Empire. Şer'iyye Registers are important archival sources for Ottoman history. They are also documents containing court decisions reflecting the social and economic life of the place they belong to. In order to contribute to revealing the historical information about Kastamonu and to reveal the administrative, political and social structure of the city in more detail, these records should be examined. Our study consists of 4 parts. In the in introduction, also in the first part, after giving brief information about the definition, content, history and importance of the Şer'iyye registers, in general, we discussed the Kastamonu Şer'iyye Number 21. In the documents are summarized and in the third section, an evaluation is made according to the information given by the documents, in the fourth chapter, the text is transcribed. Kastamonu Şer'iyye Registry Number 21, done transcription, summary and evaluation, dated H.1128-1129/M.1716-1717 will provide illuminating information to researchers who will work in this field.