YAZMA ESERLERİN TASNİF VE TESBİTİNDE İHMAL OLUNAN HUSUSLAR VE BUNLARLA İLGİLİ BAZI TEKLİFLER

Year 2004, Issue: 3, 31 - 36, 01.12.2004

Mehmet Şeker

Abstract

Some Problems and Proposals Related to the Determination and Classification of Manuscripts

Abstract

From its very begining the discipline of the history is based on two
sources, oral and written ones. Especially manuscripts and other
historical documents can be described as backbone of the history.
Because not only they provide us crucial knowledge of the cultural,
economical and social life of the past but also they have esthetic values.
Today it seems to me we have some serious problems relating to the
determination and classification of these invaluable documents. The
first problem is about the naming of the documents. Titles, given to
them, have to be in accord with the content. Secondly we have always to
kept in mind that at least in some old volumes of the manuscripts, they
contain several books or booklets together. Then in the process of
classificiation, we have to be aware of this fact and if there are another
books / booklets either at the end of it or around the pages. We have to
determine all of them correctly and they have to be shown at the
catalogue of the document. Thirdly, notes at the begining or the inner of
the cover of the book must not be neglected since these notes are very
important in the history of our cultural and social life. Morever, notes
of registration and copying of the manuscripts are also very important
for a student of the history.
Then, they have to be read and determined carefully and correctly. If
we want to help the students of the history and to show the richness of
our libraries at least we must follow these rules, especially in the
determination and classification of the written sources.