Note 608 — Chapter VI · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS GOVERNMENT
Reading edition
Accounts are given in D’Ohsson, vii. 159-172, and in Hammer, Staatsverwaltung, 101-137. References to the Nishanji are found in Spandugino, 99; Menavino, 168; Ramberti, below, p. 248; Ludovisi, 14; Navagero, 94; Trevisano, 118; Garzoni, 430; Junis Bey (below, p. 266) and Postel, iii. 63, speak of a Teskereji-bashi, giving a description which applies exactly to the Nishanji as represented by contemporaries. Since the word means merely “chief of document-writers,” it refers without doubt to the Nishanji.