CANTEMIR’S ANNOTATIONES IN THE GROWTH AND DECAY OF THE OTHMAN EMPIRE

👤Author

Name: Ioana Costa
Affiliation: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
Department of Classical Philology

📄Article

Citation Recommendation: Costa, Ioana. ‟Cantemirʼs annotationes in The Growth and decay of
the Othman Empire”. Synthesis, no. XXXIX, 2012, pp. 13-17.s
Title: CANTEMIRʼS ANNOTATIONES IN THE GROWTH AND DECAY
OF THE OTHMAN EMPIRE
Pages: 13-17
Language: English
URL: https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2012/XXXIX/2_Costa.pdf

Abstract

Cantemir’s Incrementorum et decrementorum Aulae Othman[n]icae is a twofold writing, not only regarding the explicit component of “growth” and “decay”, but also in a philological manner, as the author provides a huge amount of “annotations”, covering all the possible questions a reader could ask. Answering the virtual questions, they reveal Cantemir as inquisitive as a reader, as he is an erudite author.

Keywords: Cantemir; annotations; philology; anecdotes; author.

Bibliography

Cantemir, Dimitrie, Incrementorum et decrementorum Aulae Othmannicae libri tres/ The Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire. Original Latin text of the final version revised by the author/ Creşterile şi Descreşterile Imperiului Otoman. Textul original latin în forma finală revizuită de autor. Facsimil of the manuscript Lat-124 from Biblioteca Houghton, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., introduction by Virgil Cândea, Bucharest, 1999.

Cantemir, Dimitrie, Incrementorum et decrementorum Aulae Othman[n]icae sive Aliothman[n]icae historiae a prima gentis origine ad nostra usque tempora deductae libri tres, edited by Dan Sluşanschi, preface by Virgil Cândea, Timişoara, 2001.

Cantemir, Dimitrie, Istoria creşterilor şi a descreşterilor Curţii Othman[n]ice sau Aliothman[n]ice de la primul început al neamului adusă până în vremurile noastre, în trei cărţi, Romanian version and index by Dan Sluşanschi, preface by Virgil Cândea, [Bucharest], [2012], ©2008 Dan Sluşanschi, ©2010 Editura Paideia.