Archival Objects

Digital surrogates of archival materials consulted in this project from the Venetian State Archives, Marciana Library, and Correr Civic Museum (Venice, Italy), Ottoman Prime Minister's Archives (Istanbul, Turkey), State Archives in Zadar (Zadar, Croatia), Koper Regional Archives (Koper, Slovenia), Austrian House, Court and State Archives and Austrian National Library (Vienna, Austria), Institute for Personal History (Bensheim, Germany), SOAS Library and and British National Archives (London, UK). Due to copyright restrictions, access to some images may be limited to members of the Dragoman Renaissance research group.

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Documents

Transcriptions/transliterations, summaries, and/or structured data of archival records written by or about dragomans in Venetian service in the period 1589-1720. The bulk of the current collection includes approximately 2000 records (primarily in Ottoman and Italian) collated by the Venetian bailate chancery in Istanbul and now kept in the Venetian State Archives. Additional records from Istanbul, Zadar, Vienna, London, and elsewhere related to dragomans’ involvement in Venetian-Ottoman diplomacy will be added in the near future.

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Person Records

A bio-bibliographical dataset of hundreds of dragomans and other diplomatic personnel in Venetian service in Istanbul and in Ottoman service in Venice in the period 1550-1780. This evolving dataset allows researchers to trace dragomans' and diplomats’ life trajectories and kinship, financial, and professional ties, as well as their translations and other textual and visual output (in both manuscript and print) in a variety of genres, including wills, portraits, and commissioned works. Partially based on an index prepared by the late Prof. Maria Pia Pedani.

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Table of Figures

metadata and digital surrogates for 57 figures analyzed in The Dragoman Renaissance, including dragomans' portraits, miniature albums, oil paintings, genealogical charts, manuscript codices, and five customized and interactive data visualizations exploring dragomans' kinship and marriage patterns.

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Ottoman Dictionaries and Grammers

A database containing bibliographic and analytical data about 84 bi- and multi-lingual Ottoman dictionaries and grammars in Latinate languages in the period up to 1730CE 

Subject Bibliographies

Ottoman Dictionaries and Grammars in Latinate Languages
Citations for the 84 works in the database above

Ottoman Dictionaries and Grammars - Secondary Literature
Citations for over 90 works of scholarship about early modern Ottoman dictionaries and grammars in Latinate languages
 

Dragomans' Writings and Translations

Citations for 55 works authored, compiled, or translated by early modern dragomans 

Presentations

Audio and video recordings of presentations by E. Natalie Rothman and other team members since 2014. Presentations address different aspects of the Dragoman Renaissance project as it has evolved over the years and are geared towards different audiences, from scholars, students, and data technicians to the general public.

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