Irk Bitig

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TURCOLOGICA Herausgegeben von Lars Johanson

Talat

tekin

Irk Bitig

Band 18

The Book of Omens

1993 Harrassowitz Verlag

1993 ·

Wi esbade n

Harrassowitz Verlag

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Wiesbaden

Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................. Text and Translation Explanations Glossary

Tekin, Talat: Irk b iti g :(the

book of omens)

(Turcologica ; Bd.

18)

I Talat Tekin.- Wiesbaden

: Harrassowitz 1993

ISBN 3-447-03426-2 NE: Irk bitig; GT

©Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbadcn

1994

This work, including all of its parts, is protected by copyright. Any use b eyond the limits of c op yr ight law without the permission of the publisher is forbidden and subject to penally. This applies

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Printed on permanent/durable paper from Nordland, Dorpen!Ems. Printing and binding by Hubert & Co, Gotti ngen

Printed in Germany

ISSN 0177-4743 ISBN 3-447-03426-2

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INTRODUCTION The Irk Bitig or 'The book of Omens" is the only Old Turkic text

written in the runic script and in the form of a book. It was found in the deposit of manuscripts in the "Halls of the Thousand Buddhas" near Tun-huang. Like many manuscripts found in the same deposit, the Irk Bitig cannot be precisely dated, but it is very Likely that it was written in the 9th century. Tt is written in the so-called "Manichaean

ny- dialect".

The Irk Bitig (British Museum, Or. 8212) is a Little book consisting of fifty-eight leaves or twenty-nine small sheets, about 13.6 em. high and about 8 em. wide. The sheets are glued together at the end one by one. The Turkic text begins on the reverse page of the fifth leaf and ends on the fifty seventh leaf. With the exception of these two leaves, all -

the others are written on both sides. Thus, the Turkic text comprices

104 small pages. The last two pages contain a colophon written in red ink. It seems that the first nine and the last three pages of the book were originally blank; but later they were filled with writing in Chinese. Moreover, the last three pages of the Turkic text, together

with the margin of the pages 1 and 101 were covered with Chinese

writing. The title of the book appears as zrk bitig on page 101. Formerly it was thought that the book had been written for two disciples named

isig

SlliJIIIl and

ita