LECTOR OCULATUS (DIMITRIE CANTEMIR, “INCREMENTA ET DECREMENTA AULAE OTHMANICAE”)

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Name: Ioana Costa
Affiliation: Universitatea din Bucureşti / Institutul de Istorie şi Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române

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Citation Recommendation: COSTA, Ioana. „Lector oculatus (Dimitrie Cantemir, «Incrementa et decrementa Aulae Othmanicae»)”. In: RITL, New Series, VII, No. 1-4, January-December 2013, p. 143–148
Titlul: LECTOR OCULATUS (DIMITRIE CANTEMIR, „INCREMENTA ET DECREMENTA AULAE OTHMANICAE”)
Title: LECTOR OCULATUS (DIMITRIE CANTEMIR, “INCREMENTA ET DECREMENTA AULAE OTHMANICAE”)
Pages: 143–148
Language: Romanian
URL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2013/14_I_Costa.pdf

Abstract: Dimitrie Cantemir’s Incrementa et decrementa Aulae Othmanicae is a multiple level construction, as the explicit duplex of Incrementa (two books, 246 pages in Harvardiense manuscript) and Decrementa (one book, 284 pages, pp. 247–530 in the same manuscript) is mirrored by a remarkable apparatus: two series of Annotationes following Incrementa (bearing continuous numbers, from page 1 to 279) and one series, after Decrementa (numbered from page 1 to 206). The passage from Historia to Annotationes is done in both directions, as the author announces in the text some observations in annotations that are, as a rule, attached to distinct word in the text, which is minutely described, from different angles. Annotationes are a real thesaurus of data from various domains, of variable lengths, reflecting the interests and information of their author and, nevertheless, the way Cantemir valued the thirst of the reader, perceived as lector oculatus, defined by a never-ceasing curiositas.

Keywords: Dimitrie Cantemir, translation, author, adnotations, philology

Bibliography:

Cantemir, Dimitrie, 1999: 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 al manuscrisului Lat–124 de la Biblioteca Houghton, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., introducere Virgil Cândea, Bucureşti, [Editura] Roza Vânturilor, 1999.

Cantemir, Dimitrie, 2001: Incrementorum et decrementorum Aulae Othman[n]icae sive Aliothman[n]icae historiae a prima gentis origine ad nostra usque tempora deductae libri tres, ediţie critică Dan Sluşanschi, prefaţă Virgil Cândea, Timişoara, Editura Amarcord, 2001.

Cantemir, Dimitrie, 2012: Istoria creşterilor şi a descreşterilor Curţii Othman[n]ice sauAliothman[n]ice de la primul început al neamului adusă până în vremurile noastre, în trei cărţi, versiune românească şi indice: Dan Sluşanschi, prefaţă: Virgil Cândea, [Bucureşti], [Editura] Paideia, [2012], ©2008 Dan Sluşanschi, ©2010 Editura Paideia.