On the recensions of Uruj's 'History of the Ottomans

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2773802
AutoresL Ménage, V L Ménage (autor de correspondencia)
Año1967
Volumen30
Número2
Páginas314-322
Fecha de publicación1967-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00062224
OpenAlexW2082912293
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas1

The so-called 'Anonymous Chronicles' of the Ottoman dynasty and the closely related texts which pass under the name of Uruj present formidable problems to an editor, for they are not 'histories' in the classical sense, handed down in copies made for scholars by professional copyists, but rather storybooks of the genre of the Baṭṭāl-nāme and the Dānishmend-nāme, written for the edification and entertainment of the ordinary man, so that many a 'copyist' was in effect a redactor or even an author, freely paraphrasing his model, adding new stories or alternative versions of old ones, and occasionally stitching together two recensions to make a new and fuller version

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