Archivum Ottomanicum concerns itself primarily with Ottoman history and Ottoman philology. However, the editors also welcome articles on subjects related to Ottoman studies in the history and culture of Europe, including in particular Danubian Europe, the Black Sea area and the Caucasus, and in the history and culture of the Arab and the Iranian lands, and Byzantium. The publication of historical documents and records and their interpretation are of special interest.

From the Contents:

- V. Aksan: Ottoman Sources of Information on Europe in the Eighteenth Century
- G. Frantz-Murphy: Parallel Cyclical Patterns in Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Land Tenure in Egypt
- Th. D. Goodrich: The Earliest Ottoman Maritime Atlas – The Walters Deniz Atlasi
- G. J. Halasi-Kun: The Mapof Sekl-I Yeni Felemenk maa Ingiliz in Ebubekir Dimiski’s Tercüme-i Atlas Mayor
- T. Halasi-Kun: Krassó County, and the Ottoman Nahiyes Bogça, Kirasova-Bitilnik, and Semlit’ II: Kirasova-Bitilnik Nahiyesi
- D. A. Howard: The Historical Development of the Ottoman Imperial Registry (Defter-I Hakani): Mid-Fifteenth to Mid-Seventeenth Centuries
- J. M. Stein: A Letter to Queen Elizabeth I from the Grand Vizier as a Source for the Study of Ottoman Diplomacy
-J. S. Szyliowicz: Functional Perspectives on Technology: The Case of the Printing Press in the Ottoman Empire