The chapter deals with the introduction of Ottoman Turkish printing in 1726-1727 with the so-called Müteferrika press. The chapter dwells on newly found information about this press published in contemporaneous German newspapers, periodicals and books.

This first volume of Collected Works of the ERC Project TYPARABIC focuses on the history of printing during the 18th century in the Ottoman Empire and the Romanian Principalities among diverse linguistic and confessional communities. Although “most roads lead to Istanbul,” the many pathways of early modern Ottoman printing also connected authors,…[Read more]

This chapter analyses Ottoman attitudes towards printing and argues that at the beginning of the 18th century there was still considerable mistrusts towards this novel technology, coming especially from religious circles.

Worksheet guiding MSU faculty and staff on exporting forms such as those for reappointment, promotion and tenure or annual review.

The birth of portrait in the orthodox space: representations of an individual in Greek books printed in Bucharest and in Venice at the beginning of the 18th century.
First Greek typographies, organized to provide churches with liturgical texts and to disseminate anti-Latin polemical writings among the Orthodox flock, emerged in the West,…[Read more]

The Fihrist online catalogue describes manuscripts Huntington 27–30 from the Bodleian Library as “1 copy of Revision of the Synaxarion by Meletios Karma al-Ḥamawī (1572–1635)”, in 4 volumes, with details such as “composed 1612” and “origin 1638 CE” provided. The original information undoubtedly comes from Joannes Uri’s catalogue. Uri notes…[Read more]

Collected works (studies, articles, reviews) on the cult of Roman Mithras written in the period of 2010-2023