Some Notes on A Manuscript

Abstract

A scripture containing Turkish proverbs in the manuscript department of Orient Faculty of Leningrad (at present, Petersburg) State University, was prepared by Samet Alizadai and it was published from Yazıcı Neşriyat in Baku in 1987 under the name of Oğuzname. Some reviews were contributed on this book that has Azeri Turkish tendencies; however, even they have emphasized the significance of the edition, there isn't any study that has been done precisely and in detailed on the missings and mistakes of the edition. In this article, by considering the microfilm of the original version of the book in Leningrad, the text written in Arabic lerters and Samet Alizadai's edition were compared and 1) page disorders, 2) misreadings, 3) the words that Sarnet Alizadai couldn't read and showed as blanks, 4) some proverbs that aren't existed even in the scripture, 5) incoherency between the words adapted to Azeri Turkish, 6) words that Samet Alizadai hadn't written because oftheir immoral content, 7) mistakes in 'Notes and Explanations' and 'Glossary' at the end of the edition are investigated, and examples are submitted as it could be accessed within the article. Whole of the scripture was read by canceming the microfilm by the author of the article (Nuri Yüce) and prepared for publishing.