Originals and transcripts of vakufnamas preserved until present day

Abstract

This work discusses originals and transcripts of vakufnamas in Gazi Huserefbeg's library. At the beginning there is a short linguistic and terminological explanation of vakufnama, and after it the role of the vakuf and the significance of vakufnamas and the vakufnamas in this library are discussed. It is pointed out that the library, possesses in three volumes more than 1.100 vakufnamas in transcript and that it has 556 originals and transcripts as special documents. Finally 20 vakufnamas from the XV and XVI centuries are quoted, mention is made of vakif of books, and especially Abdulkadir son of Huseine- fendy Muzaferija, who gave books to the former Đumušića medresa in Sarajevo.