Mesajul editorial din predosloviile bălgrădene (secolul al XVII-lea)
The Editorial Message of the prefaces of the Books of Bălgrad (the 17th century)

Summary/Abstract: The present study draws our attention to the content of the editorial message from the prefaces of Bǎlgrad dedicated to the reader and the general attitude of society. On the other hand, the readers’ feed-back materialised in manuscripts that were preserved in the margins of the book may also be traced upon. There are words expressed in a non-official form where empty spaces were found on the leaves of the books. They gradually became the common form of manifestation of some attitudes toward the social events, of the message sent through the book content, and of some other particular situations. These words represent the expression of the wish for confessing manifested both by the scholars as well as common people that lived in the same reality, but set it forth differently in the same words: “we wrote”, “we read”. The editorial staff did not exercise its influence over the notes in the margins of the book in a direct way. The declared aim was the book spreading in society. The process that began in typography with the book editing activity acquired a realistic content in the 17th century and continued in the 18th and 19th centuries through a continuous dialogue enriched by the concepts that were lived by those who contributed to the process of book spreading on the Romanian territories. The words of the old books, and those of the notes, too, introduce to the man the idea of what life really is throughout a particular historical period of time, if it is to give them a deep spiritual meaning.

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