Appendix A

Abstract

We do not have a single, complete version of Naim Efendi’s collection. What we have is two different texts! One is the original Ottoman-Turkish text that we discovered in the Guerguerian Archive, and the second is the collection of passages published by Aram Andonian. The original Ottoman-Turkish text and passages published by Andonian are the same, but there are major differences, too, because Andonian did not publish several pages of the original Ottoman-Turkish material. In some cases, he considered some pages unimportant and simply omitted them. In other cases, our Ottoman-Turkish text does not include certain pages that Aram Andonian published in his book. We know why these pages are missing in the Ottoman-Turkish text: Andonian had sent them to Istanbul for a trial.