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Country

Turkey

City

Kastamonu

Institution

Kastamonu İl Halk Kütüphanesi

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496

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Ḳābūsnāme (Mercimek Ahmet, active 15th century)

Author

Mercimek Ahmet, active 15th century

مرجمك احمد ابن الياس

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Mercimek Aḥmed b. İlyās (d. after 835/1432)

Mercümek Ahmed b. Ilyas (d. after 835/1432)

Mercimek Ahmet, active 15th century (authorised)

İlyasoğlu Mercimek Ahmet, active 15th century (variant)

Mercimek Ahmed, active 15th century (variant)

Mercimek Ahmet, 15th cent (variant)

Mercimek, Ahmet, active 15th century (variant)

Merd̲j̲imek Aḥmed, active 15th century (variant)

Biographical notes

He has lived during the reign of Murād II (824/1421-855/1451). He is famous for his only work known to us, the Ḳābūsnāme, the best known of the several translations of this Persian work in Old Anatolian Turkish.

Title

Ḳābūsnāme

قابوسنامه

Notes

This is another translation of Kaykāvūs b. Iskandar (d. after 475/1082) ’s work by the same name in Turkish language. As related by the author in the introduction, Murād II (824/1421-855/1451) was dissatisfied with one of the previous translations of the work which he found hard to understand and ordered Mercimek Aḥmed to make a better translation. Mercimek Aḥmed states that he completed the work in 23 Shaʿbān, 835 [1432 CE] and enriched the text by giving the necessary explanations. The work comprises the advice given by Kaykāvūs b. Iskandar (d. after 475/1082) to his son on how to be a better ruler.

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Birnbaum, Eleazar. The book of advice: the earliest old Ottoman Turkish version of his Kabusname. Cambridge MA: Harvard University, 1981.

Gökyay, Orhan Şaik, ed. Kabusname. Ankara: Başbakanlık Kültür Müsteşarlığı, 1974.

Özkırımlı, Attila. "Kabusname" Istanbul: Tercüman Gazetesi 1974.

Studies

Akçalı-Işıközlü, Tipi. "Ḳābūsnāme, Keykāvūs ibn İskender ibn Ḳābūs Mercimek Aḥmed Çevirisi (Edisyon Kritik ve Transkripsiyon)." unpublished senior thesis, Istanbul: Istanbul University, , [n.d.].

Dogan, Enfel. "Eski Anadolu Türkçesinde Yapılan Kabus-nâme Çevirileri Üzerine." İÜEF Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi. , no. XLIII 2011: 36-55.

Emre, Ahmet Cevat. "Ondördüncü Asır Yazmalarından Numuneler: Kabusname'den." TDAY Belleten. , no. II 1940: 121-152.

Korkmaz, Zeynep. "Kābusnāme ve Marzubannāme Çevirileri Kimindir?" TDAY Belleten. 1966: 267-278.

Korkmaz, Zeynep. "Wer ist der Übersetzer des Qābūsnāme und des Marzubānnāme?" Studia Turcica (ed. L. Ligeti). 1971: 259-266.

Kurtuluş, Rıza. "Keykâvus b. İskender." TDVİA. 24 2001: 357-357.

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Physical Description

Number of folios

63 ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

19

History

Date of copy

20th. century