YÛNUS EMRE DİVANI (NURUOSMANİYE, ÇORUM, VİYANA NÜSHALARI) KARŞILAŞTIRMALI METİN-İNCELEME-DİZİN

Abstract

Yûnus Emre, who is widely accepted to have lived in Anatolia between the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, is one of the founding figures of Turkish Sufi literature. Two of his works have survived to the present day: Risâletü’n-Nushiyye and the Divan. This doctoral dissertation comparatively examines the Nuruosmaniye, Çorum, and Vienna manuscripts of Yûnus Emre’s Divan, which were selected from the extant manuscripts and have not previously been published in their entirety, using the method of textual criticism. Among these manuscripts, the Nuruosmaniye and Vienna copies contain both Risâletü’n-Nushiyye and the Divan, whereas the Çorum manuscript contains only the Divan. The Nuruosmaniye manuscript was adopted as the base manuscript for the critical edition because it preserves the linguistic features of Old Anatolian Turkish more distinctly and predates the Vienna manuscript, whose date of copying is known. The complete text of the Nuruosmaniye manuscript was transliterated into the Latin alphabet using a transcription system, and the corresponding couplets in the Vienna and Çorum manuscripts were indicated in the footnotes. At the end of the study, a glossary-index and an index of proper nouns prepared for the Nuruosmaniye manuscript, which serves as the base text, are included. Since the Vienna and Çorum manuscripts contain certain couplets that are absent from the Nuruosmaniye manuscript, both manuscripts are presented in full in the appendices. This study employs transliteration, comparative analysis, and lexical indexing methods to present all three manuscripts in full using a transcription system. In addition, orthographic, phonological, and morphological features are examined. The dissertation also offers suggestions for correcting certain readings and editions in the existing literature. Furthermore, the Notes section evaluates words identified in the manuscripts that are noteworthy for the vocabulary of Old Anatolian Turkish.