BOOKS, PALACES AND PAVILIONS
The New Library consists of the following principal sections: The Treasury, the Emanet Treasury containing books from the Privy Chamber, the books brought from the Revan and Baghdad Pavilions, and the various books collected from the Birun and Enderun (the palace’s ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ sections) including the Dormitories of the Pages, and the pavilions of Ahmed III, the Mantle of the Prophet, Mehmed Reshad and Tiryal Hanim, Medina, the Isfendiyarids, and Halil Ethem Arda.
Manuscripts acquired by purchase and donation after the conversion to a museum are entered in the register as ‘Newly Arrived Manuscripts’. The library also has a section of calligraphic specimens by Turkish calligraphers. Also exhibited here are the tools of the calligraphic trade: pencils, nibs and scissors, carved lecterns.