Till GrallertJan 28

Is there any meaningful literature on the paper trade in the late Ottoman Empire (second half of the 19th century onwards) that I might have missed? I tried all keywords I could think of in the common databases for scholarly literature and searched through works on the history of printing and publishing but came up practically empty-handed.

Amy Ayalon, Hala Auji, Titus Nemeth ( @tntype ), and the late Kathryn Schwartz mention paper in passing. The body of literature on watermarks and manuscripts doesn’t help either as this isn’t concerned with the cheap, industrially produced paper for periodical printing I am interested in.

Is there a chance of @dbellingradt or
@BiblioWingate knowing more?

#PaperHistory #OttomanEmpire #PeriodicalStudies #PaperTrade

Show threadDaniel Ohanian
@tillgrallert @dbellingradt @BiblioWingate @tntype There are a lot of graduate theses in the YÖK database, I believe, about a particular Armenian bookseller (Arakel something?) who worked in Istanbul during the 1910s. They would probably come up if you were to search for the word “sahaf” in the abstracts. There could be something there.
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Show threadDaniel OhanianJan 28
@tillgrallert @dbellingradt @BiblioWingate @tntype And there is a book published by Bloomsbury, I think, by an author who publishes mostly in Turkish, about Arabic-script libraries between Edirne and Kayseri or something like that in the early modern period. There might be a clue there too, in the citations.
Show threadDaniel OhanianJan 28
@tillgrallert @dbellingradt @BiblioWingate @tntype Finally, Aram Ghoogasian would be a good person to ask: https://forms.international.ucla.edu/armenia/person/3104 .
Aram Ghoogasian

Aram Ghoogasian

Show threadTill GrallertJan 29
@dohanian @dbellingradt @BiblioWingate @tntype Thank you very much for this hint. I’ll check it out and post results in this thread.