Descriptions of Ottoman Turkish professions in old Polish texts

As the result of more vivid contacts between Ottoman Turkey and Poland in Old Polish literature, beginning from the sixteenth century, some literary works concerning with Turkish subject matter appeared. It is difficult to estimate how big and numerous this group of literature is because still there is no any bibliographic study taking a broad view of those works. However one should ascertain, that the works presenting Turkish subject matter are very various in terms of their character. Thus, among them there are memoirs, letters, descriptions of Turkish state, reports from travels and legations, versified descriptions of military actions. The authors of those works when writing about some Turkish realities inserted in the texts their Turkish names transcribed in Latin alphabet. Among this Turkish lexical material there were words denoting names of professions and posts performed in Ottoman Turkey. This very matter constitutes the subject of the presentation. The works of Old Polish literature discussing Turkish subject matter affords quite comprehensive material for scientific research on the mentioned subject both for the historians and the onomastic linguists.