Tales Of Ottoman Book Theft (19th Century)

Makale Türkçe Tarih× Edebiyat×

Künye:

Yazarlar:

Orlin SABEV

Ekle

Emeği Geçenler:

Ekle

Yayın Yılı:

2007

Yayınlandığı Eser:

Osmanlı Araştırmaları Dergisi

Cilt:

Sayı:

Sayfa Aralığı:

173-201

İçerik Dosyası:

Web adresi:

http://www.isam.org.tr/documents/_dosyalar/_pdfler/osmanli_arastirmalari_dergisi/osmanl%C4%B1_sy29/2007_29_SALIHO.pdf

Operatör:

Melike Elif Acar

Güncelleyen:

Ramazan Acun

Özet:

It
seems
that
the
Latin
saying
"Verba
volant,
scripta
manent"
("Words
fly
away,
writings
remain")
is
true
foF
inscriptions
engraved
into
much·more
durable
materiallike
stone
rather
than
writings
on
parchment
or
paper.
Hence
a
lot
of
ancient books
disappeared
in
the
course
of
time
exactly
as
in
the
case
of
Aristotle's
famous
trilogy
Poetics,
of
which
only
the
Tragedy
book
happened
to
survive.
The
fate
of
the
other
parts
(Comedy
and
Epic)
is
unknown
but
an
object
ofvarious
fıctions,
amongst
them
Umberto
Eco's
The
Name
of
the
Rose
relating
the
creepy
stOry
of
a
murder
committed
in
a
fourteenth-century
Italian
·
monastery
because
of
Aristotle's
Comedy.
While
in
fiction
same
writings
stili
can
survive
well
until
the
Middle
Ages,
in
reality
not
only
words,
but
apparently
alsa
writings
or
books
could
fly
away,
so
to
speak,
because
of
various
reasons,
among
which
destruction
and
buming
seem
to
be
the
rriost
probable
ones.
As
a
matter
of
fact,
although
destroyed
and
bum
ed
books
presumably
disappear
for
ever,
Mikhail
Bulgakov's
novel
The
Master
and
Margw·ita
implies
that
sametimes
a
burnt
manuscript
could
be
stiil
reconstructed
from
memory.

It 
seems 
that 
the 
Latin 
saying 
"Verba 
volant, 
scripta 
manent" 
("Words 
fly 
away, 
writings 
remain") 
is 
true 
foF 
inscriptions 
engraved 
into 
much·more 
durable 
materiallike 
stone 
rather 
than 
writings 
on 
parchment 
or 
paper. 
Hence 
a 
lot 
of 
ancient books 
disappeared 
in 
the 
course 
of 
time 
exactly 
as 
in 
the 
case 
of 
Aristotle's 
famous 
trilogy 
Poetics, 
of 
which 
only 
the 
Tragedy 
book 
happened 
to 
survive. 
The 
fate 
of 
the 
other 
parts 
(Comedy 
and 
Epic) 
is 
unknown 
but 
an 
object 
ofvarious 
fıctions, 
amongst 
them 
Umberto 
Eco's 
The 
Name 
of 
the 
Rose 
relating 
the 
creepy 
stOry 
of 
a 
murder 
committed 
in 
a 
fourteenth-century 
Italian 
· 
monastery 
because 
of 
Aristotle's 
Comedy. 
While 
in 
fiction 
same 
writings 
stili 
can 
survive 
well 
until 
the 
Middle 
Ages, 
in 
reality 
not 
only 
words, 
but 
apparently 
alsa 
writings 
or 
books 
could 
fly 
away, 
so 
to 
speak, 
because 
of 
various 
reasons, 
among 
which 
destruction 
and 
buming 
seem 
to 
be 
the 
rriost 
probable 
ones. 
As 
a 
matter 
of 
fact, 
although 
destroyed 
and 
bum 
ed 
books 
presumably 
disappear 
for 
ever, 
Mikhail 
Bulgakov's 
novel 
The 
Master 
and 
Margw·ita 
implies 
that 
sametimes 
a 
burnt 
manuscript 
could 
be 
stiil 
reconstructed 
from 
memory.