NEWLY DISCOVERED BURSA MANUSCRIPT OF "THE BOOK OF DADA KORKUT"

Abstract

The Book of Dada Korkut (=DKK) is a work written in the style of a poem in Old Anatolian Turkish, and three copies have survived from the 16th century. Until now, we only knew the Dresden and Vatican copies of the work. Later, a little-known copy of this copy was found in the Turkish Historical Society in Ankara, which records the genealogy and introduction of the Oghuz, and this copy is not very complete. Including the Bursa copy, we now have four copies.
The topic of our article will be the newly discovered copy of the Book of Dada Korkut in Bursa. The Bursa copy was found in February 2022. A facsimile of the Bursa copy was first seen on July 7, 2023, at an introductory meeting organized by the Bursa governorate. The linguistic features of the Bursa copy are much more developed than other copies. This will help us understand how the linguistic features of the text were formed in the following centuries. The discovery of the Bursa copy of the "Book of Dada Korkut" has necessitated a review of the numerous readings, interpretations, corrections, and interpretations made by researchers. Here we will focus on some spelling, word, and sentence differences