Nasi̇hatname in İstanbul Research Institute Library Şevket Rado manuscripts registered with ŞR_000190 (Analysis-text-index)

In this study, Nasihatnâme whose author is unknown but scribed by Mehmet Hasan in 914/1508-09 and found in Istanbul Research Institute Library, Şevket Rado manuscripts with ŞR_000190 number has been analyzed. The main goal of this study is to bring a manuscript that hasn't been transcribed into Roman alphabet and hence not been studied in terms of form and meaning into science world, examining it in many aspects. This study is composed of three main chapters, besides the introduction. In the introduction, nasihatnames (books of advice) in Turkish literature were introduced, mentioning Old Anatolian Turkish period and the works including various languages in this period, and the environment which might have been the one where this work was written, the reasons for being written of this work, the position of the author and the concepts of advice and nasihatnamesi. In the first chapter, phonetic and morphological features of the text have been studied with the scope of language analysis. In the second chapter, the text has been transcribed from Arabic alphabet into Roman alphabet. In the third chapter, the index and glossary of the text have been given. Lastly, the facsimile of the text has been given as an appendix. Nasihatnâme is of importance in terms of literary history, because of the fact that it belongs to a period when religious and sufist works began being written in Turkish literature and it is significant in the sense of Turkish language for it bears orthographic features of Old Anatolian Turkish and has different Turkic dialects. Key Words: Nasihatnâme, book of advice, old Anatolian Turkish, Turkish language, Turkic languages, Turkic dialects