COMPARING İSTANBUL AND KONYA COPIES OF KIRK VEZİR STORIES


Kırk Vezir Stories is a pretty original literary work in terms of representing east narrative tradition in Turkish Literature. Narration grace of eastern man comes into existence with a didactic turn of mind in related stories in which fiction and reality collocate. Kırk Vezir Stories have more than seventy copies in various libraries in Turkey and the world. Our available copy is recorded in Konya Library as follows; D.K.By 865/1-3, 104 Yk. , 15 str. , 200x145-170x100 mm Naskh with Vowel Point, 1063 H. Subject: Fundamental Principles of Islam, word, prophet belief, 178 leaves. The text consists of three parts. There is seen ‘Kitab-ı Güzîde Akâid’ül İslâm’ till 108a. Dr. Serhat KÜÇÜK has a work that was published as ‘introduction-text-dictionary’ on this text. There also is ‘Kıssa-i İblis’ from 108b to 122a. Dr. Serhat KÜÇÜK has a not yet published work on this writing. There are Shah Stories from 122a to 178b. We can also talk about an ongoing study in this writing. These stories treat events that actualized the marriage of Shah who lost his first wife and the thing that developed as the result of slander of Shah’s new wife to Shah’s son. Every night, Shah’s new wife told a story to Shah to kill his son. On the other hand, viziers who challenged to be killed him told stories to Shah every morning; related stories continued for forty days. This paper compared our available Konya Library copy and the 108 numbered copy of İstanbul Topkapı Palace Revan Library. It has endeavored to classified the results.


Keywords


Kırk Vezir Stories, Şah Stories, Old Anatolian Turkish, Narrative Tradition, Frame Story.

Author : Serhat KÜÇÜK -Yunus Alperen ÖNCEL - Cansu PANCAR
Number of pages: 2003-2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.38204
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Turkish Studies - Language and Literature
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