Hamzaname (volume 33) text-dictionary-examination

Hamzanâme is the common name of the epic folk stories about Prophet Muhammad's uncle Hamzah's legendary life and battles. Hamzah's heroism through protecting Prohet Muhammad at the beginning of the Islam and spreading Islam has formed a basis fort he creation of the epic folk stories named Hamzaname. To tell Islam and teach Islam to Turks some epic folk stories had been formed as Turks join Islam. No doubt that Hamzaname is one of the first boks to tell about Islam among the Turks. At first Hamzaname was told and written among the Arabs, then it had been written with new romans by Persions including their own mythological heroes. Though Turks brought Hamzah of their dreams and his virtue into being with new forms. The first Hamzaname, which has been written by the poet Ahmedi's brother Hamzavi in 14. century, is an important piece with regard to vocabulary and folk literature. The first examples of Hamzaname reflect the language character of the period they have been written. Because of the piece having a simple an flowing style. The piece is representing an important characteristic example of the old Anatolian Turkish period because of having a simle and flowing style. Hamzaname, having a very large volume, consist 72 of volumes. Having numerous repeated copies in the libraries of Turkey, Hamzaname's most important copy is in the rare works department of the literature faculty of Istanbul University. Hamzaname, which we have graduate studies on, is having it's 33. volume in two different copies in also two diffrent libraries. At the end of our examinations we have found that 47 paged copy registered in the Nd. 2496 section of the rare works library in the literature faculty of Istanbul University is suitable to work on. We shaped our work according to this copy first, we made a transcriptional translation of the copy. Then we epitomised it. Later on we created a comprehensive dictionary that reflects all of the vocabulary. Key Words: Hamzanâme, Hamzavî, 14th century, Old Anatolian Turkish