Oriental documents in the manuscript department of Vilnius university library: jarlyks of khans and letters of border pashas
Journal: Vilnius University Open Series
Year: 2014

Three important manuscript collections were preserved in Vilnius in the interwar period. One of these collections, which contained documents of the uttermost importance, which witnessed political and diplomatic relations between the Crimea, the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was preserved in the Manuscript Department of Vilnius University (further VU) Library. Another collection of Oriental manuscripts, which belonged to the muftiate, was for the most part lost in 1944. T