On The Interventions of The Copyer in A Copy of Garib-Nâme

Garib-nâme’nin Bir Nüshasındaki Müstensih Müdahaleleri Üzerine

Abstract

Garib-nâme is a Turkish copyright work written by Âşık Pasha during the 14th century. The work is among noteworthy works from the creation phase of the Ancient Anatolian Turkish. More than one hundred copies of Garib-nâme have been detected so far. One of these copies is the one dated 391, A.D and archive numbered 236 in Koç University Suna Kıraç Library Special Collections and Archives section. What makes this copy different from others is the interventions performed on the original text on the first 69 pages of the copy. This second copyist changed specific spelling, grammar and vocabulary elements displaying the Ancient Anatolian Turkish period characteristics in the present work. The aforementioned interventions were performed after the century when the actual work was written. We know why specific works within the historical process were rewritten during the following centuries. In this copy, we can individually see the transformations performed on the original work during a possible attempt of rewriting which had not been transcribed yet. The copy in this respect is one of the original examples which makes it possible to see the transformation of Turkish in Anatolia during different centuries in a tangible way.