The Zagreb Manuscript of Tīmūrnāma by ‘Abdullāh Hātifī: a Textual Analysis

Predmet ovog rada je zagrebački kodeks epske poeme Tīmūrnāma autora ‘Abdullāha Hātifīja (u. 1521.) koji se pod signaturom OZHA R 754 čuva u Orijentalnoj zbirci Arhiva Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti. Osnovna namjera autora bila je tekstnom analizom i detaljnom usporedbom toga kodeksa s nedavno tiskanim kritičkim izdanjem teksta djela, te drugim dostupnim recenzijama teksta, utvrditi razmjere manjkavosti rukopisa R 754 na koju su višekratno ukazivali autori koji su se njime bavili. Rad se sastoji od nekoliko cjelina: kratkog uvodnog dijela, prikaza dosad tiskanih izdanja Tīmūrnāme, pregleda sadržaja tog djela po pojedinačnim poglavljima, opisa rukopisa i središnjeg dijela u kojemu su analizirani sačuvani listovi kodeksa. Rezultati obrade kodeksa pokazuju da je tekst zagrebačke Tīmūrnāme s 2320 stihova raspoređenih u dvadeset tri zabilježena poglavlja s ukrašenim unvanima (zaglavljima) tek polovično očuvan. Osim ispuštanja teksta posebnu poteškoću predstavlja i narušeni raspored dostupnih stihova pa su na kraju dane preporuke za novi redoslijed i folijaciju kodeksa. Na temelju tekstnih indicija unutar samog djela i upisa na kraju moguće je iznijeti pretpostavku da je zagrebačka Tīmūrnāma najvjerojatnije prepisana u Perziji ili na području istočne Anadolije, te da je u slijedu burnih političkih i društvenih previranja u XVI. i XVII. stoljeću između Osmanskog i Safavidskog Carstva postala sastavni dio osmanskog manuskriptnog miljea. Na kraju rada nalazi se nekoliko priloga koji tablično predstavljaju najvažnije zaključke.The principal focus in this article is on the Zagreb manuscript of a famous epic poem entitled Tīmūrnāma by ‘Abdullāh Hātifī (d. 927/1521) that is held at the Oriental Manuscript Collection of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts under the call name OZHA R 754. Authors of this article aimed at a detailed comparison and textual analysis of the aforementioned codex in light of the recently published critical edition of the Tīmūrnāma, as well as other available manuscripts of the work, in order to ascertain the scope of its textual lacunae identified yet not hitherto analyzed by authors who wrote on the subject matter. The article contains several sections: a brief introduction, an overview of the published editions of the Tīmūrnāma, a survey of the contents of the work in individual chapters, a description of the Zagreb codex and the central part in which authors analyzed the available folios of the work as per OZHA R 754. Upon perusal, it was determined that the Zagreb Tīmūrnāma with its 2320 verses distributed through the twenty-three chapters whose unwans are preserved in the manuscript is incomplete and is lacking almost precisely half of the text. Apart from significant textual omissions, another considerable difficulty is posed by the perturbed sequence of the preserved verses; thus, a new reordering of the text and pagination is herein proposed. Based on textual evidence contained in the manuscript, both in the main body of the work, as well as in miscellanea on fol. 102b it is reasonable to assume that the Zagreb Tīmūrnāma was copied either in Persia proper or in eastern Anatolia under the influence of the Safavid manuscript tradition and at a subsequent date in XVI or XVII century, became part of the Ottoman manuscript milieu. The colophon does not contain information about the time and date of copying or identity of the copyist. Three supplements at the end of the article present the most important findings of the textual examination of OZHA R 754