Collected Knowledge A Symposium on Ottoman Mecmūʿas Institut für Orientalistik 28 th and 29 th November 2013 28 th November 2013 Seminarraum Turcica 17:00 Opening address Michael Jursa (Head of the Institute) Vienna Edition Project Gisela Procházka- Eisl Ottoman Mecmū‘as Hülya Hancı Digital Ottoman Text Editions Adnan Kadrić On the Ottoman Mecmū‘as and Popular Encyclopaedias Between Pragmatic Concerns and Poetical Ambitions: The Case of Netā’icü l-Fünūn Reception 29 th November 2013 Seminarraum Turcica Session I Chair: Markus Köhbach 9:30 – 11:00 M. Fatih Köksal Şiir Mecmualarının Sistematik Tasnifi Projesi (MESTAP) Hakkında Jan Schmidt The Taxonomy of Ottoman Miscellanies and Monofunctional Manuscripts Ernst Petritsch Ottoman Manuscripts in Austrian Libraries and Archives Session II Chair: Markus Köhbach 11:30 – 12:30 Kerima Filan Osmanlı Mecmuasının Dili Snježana Buzov Ottoman Miscellani Mecmuas as a Form of Literacy Session III Chair: Edith Ambros 14:00 – 15:00 Tatjana Paić- Vukić Books Bought and Books Actually Read: Mecmuas as Sources for the History of Reading in the Ottoman Empire Hatice Aynur Karışık İçerikli Bir Mecmû‘a ve Hafîd Efendi’nin (ö. 1811) Biyografisine Katkılar Session IV Chair: Edith Ambros 15:30 – 16:30 Claudia Römer Branka Ivušić The South Slavic and Latin Specimen Texts in the Mecmua ÖNB A.F. 437 Aslıhan Aksoy- Sheridan Envisioning an Ottoman Imperial Future: Reading the Bahru’l- Mükâşefe in a 17 th -century Mecmua Closing: 16:30 – 17:00 Organizers: Gisela Procházka-Eisl, Hülya Hancı, Adnan Kadrić