Mahmud ibn Hussayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari.

Digital facsimile of manuscript Jarring Prov. 274

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Digital facsimile of manuscript Jarring Prov. 274

Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (ATMO)

Test edition 2022-05-10

Lund University Library Jarring Prov. 274

Contents

Yusuf Bek and Ahmed Beg

Old number 68. The tale of Yusuf Bek and Ahmed Beg, popular in slightly different forms all over Central Asia. This version deals with a king of Isfahan called Boz Oghlan. He had a vezir by the name of Agha Bek to whom the king gave his sister La'l Khan Ayim in marriage. The had three children -two sons Yusuf Bek and Ahmed Beg and one daughter Qaldar Aghach by name. It is their adventures that are related in this popular tale. On f. 1a a specimen of Turki poetry and some illegible notes. Cf. H. Vambéry, Cagataische Sprachstudien, Leipzig 1867, pp. 32-33, 95-114; H. Vambéry, Jusuf und Ahmed. Ein özbegisches Volksepos im Chivaer Dialekte, Budapest 1911 (Supplement to Keledi Szemle); Prov. 280, 530

Language: Uighur

Physical description

Support: paper, indigenous, white, slightly polished

Extent: ff. 71 240 × 160mm.

Foliation: The ms. is foliated by G. Jarring.

Condition: Unusable

Decoration

Binding

Brown leather binding

History

Origin

Place of origin: Eastern Turkistan
Date of origin: 19th century, late (?)
No date indicated, but probably late 19th century.

Provenance: Bought from Rev. David Gustafsson who in the late 1920's acquired it in Yarkand.

Acquisition: The ms. was part of the Jarring collection of Eastern Turkistan manuscripts donated to the Lund University Library in 1982.

Catalog record of Lund University Library: http://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record%3A274

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Digital facsimile of manuscript Jarring Prov. 274. By Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (ATMO). (Principal investigators: Arienne M. Dwyer and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen.) Manuscript held and scanned by Lund University Library . Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Lawrence, Kansas: Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online, 2022-05-10. On the Web at https://uyghur.linguistics.indiana.edu/manuscripts/Jarring_Prov_274.df.xml. Last examined dd Mmmmmm YYYY.

2022-05-10

Credit: Painting of Mahmud al-Kashgari © 1981 by Ghazi Emet.