The beginnings of printing in the Ottoman capital: Book production and circulation in early modern Istanbul

Yıl 2015, Cilt: 16 Sayı: 2, 3 - 32, 01.06.2015

Nil Pektaş

Öz

Printing and circulation of printed texts in the Eastern
Mediterranean have become central to the study of the history of the book in
recent years. Despite the substantial research on Ottoman printing in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and in different locales, the beginnings of
printing in Istanbul and the Ottoman practices concerning the circulation of
printed books in the early modern period is an area that remains largely
unexplored. This paper examines the appearance of the printed book in the city
after the fall of the Byzantine Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, which
coincided with the establishment of Gutenberg’s press, and before the founding
of the first ‘official’ Ottoman press in 1727. The paper investigates
incunabula printing, book production and the first non-Muslim presses run by
Jewish, Armenian and Greek publishers in Istanbul with a particular emphasis on
the Orthodox monk Nikodemos Metaxas’s printing activities.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Printing in early modern Ottoman Empire, Hebrew, Armenian and Greek printing in Istanbul, Nikodemos Metaxas, history of the book and print culture

Osmanlı’da matbaacılığın başlangıcı: Erken modern İstanbul’da basma eserlerin üretimi ve yayımı

Öz

Son yıllarda Doğu Akdeniz bölgesinde basma eserlerin üretimi
ve yayımı, matbaa ve yayıncılık tarihi araştırmalarının önemli bir konusu
haline geldi. On sekizinci ve on dokuzuncu yüzyıllarda Osmanlı topraklarında
kurulan basımevleri hakkında kapsamlı araştırmalar yapılmış olmasına rağmen,
İstanbul’da kurulan ilk matbaalar ve basılan ilk eserler hakkında yeterli
çalışma bulunmamaktadır. Bu makale, Konstantinopolis’in 1453 yılında Osmanlılar
tarafından fethinden sonra - ki bu tarih ‘Gutenberg İncili’nin basımıyla aynı
zamana denk gelmektedir - ve 1727 yılında İbrahim Müteferrika tarafından
kurulan ilk resmi Osmanlı matbaasının faaliyete geçişinden önceki dönemde
İstanbul’da basma eserlerin üretimini incelemektedir. Yahudi, Ermeni ve Rum
matbaacılığının İstanbul’daki ilk örneklerinin ele alındığı bu çalışmada, Nikodemos
Metaksas adlı Ortodoks rahibin İngiltere’den getirdiği matbaa ve Yunan harfleri
ile bastığı risaleler de incelenmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Osmanlı Devleti’nde matbaa, İstanbul, İbranice, Ermenice ve Rumca basma eserler, Nikodemos Metaksas, yayıncılık tarihi

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