Hikaye-yi Seyit Battal Gazi - حكايه سيد بطال غازى

This volume contains the romance of Seyit Battal Gazi, the legendary champion of Muslim peoples against the Greek Empire. It begins with a versified prologue. The narrative is divided into ten sections termed meclis and which start on ff 2v, 19v, 40r, 72v, 99v, 137v, 151r, 196v, 204r, and 217v. Each meclis begins with some lines in mesnevi form. Pieces of verse are also occasionally inserted in the narrative, especially in the early part of the work. The language and orthography of this recension are both archaic, but ff 154-188 and 191-195 present a more modern text supplied in a later hand than the rest of the work. The manuscript was likely copied in the 16th century CE.

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Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 214-15.

A less intricate copy of this text can be found at Or 7310. An incomplete version can be found at Or 8768. The contents agree substantially with the abstract given by Fleischer in the Berichte der K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, vol. II, pp. 150-69; and with the German translation of Dr. Ethé, published in Leipzig, 1871.

The work was lithographed in Istanbul in 1082 AH (1671-72 CE) and extracts have also been printed in Zeitschrift der D. Morg. Ges., Band 30, p. 164; and Journal Asiatique, 6e série, vol. XI, p. 478.