Ananiasz Zajączkowski’s Research on an Old Ottoman Translation of <i>Kalilah and Dimnah</i>
Jacek Jaromszko
j.jarm@poczta.fmBiblioteka Narodowa, Pracownia Bibliografii Poloników Zagranicznych (Poland)
Abstract
“The translation of Kalilah and Dimnah into Old Ottoman is important not only as a linguistic artefact, but also as a literary one. It can by no means be regarded as insignificant to those researching the collection of Bidpai’s fairy tales and its descendants. For it is the oldest known Turkish translation of this book […]” – writes Ananiasz Zajączkowski in his introduction to the Old Anatolian translation of Kalilah and Dimnah. The copy was drawn up at the behest of Umur Beg (circa 1309–1347) from the Aydın Oğullari dynasty, which ruled over the land of today’s İzmir, Aydın and Denizli. Zajączkowski estimates that the original text was written between 1309 (the year of the birth of Umur Beg) and 1334 (when Umur’s father, Muhammad, died). Accordingly, the translator of Kalilah and Dimnah, Mes’ud, may be regarded as the same Mes’ud who translated Süheyl-ü-Nevbahar. Two Turkish scholars, Mehmed Fuad Köprülüzade and Rif’at Kilisli, oppose this hypothesis. Zajączkowski refutes their arguments not only by using a number of specific examples from both texts and taking into consideration their inter-textual relationship, but also by drawing up statistics of rare lexical forms. In this paper I will try to develop Zajączkowski’s thought and present his contribution to the research on this literary artefact.
Keywords:
Ananiasz Zajączkowski, Kalilah and Dimnah, Panchatrantra, Old Ottoman, Old Anatolian, translation movements, Ottoman studiesReferences
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Authors
Jacek Jaromszkoj.jarm@poczta.fm
Biblioteka Narodowa, Pracownia Bibliografii Poloników Zagranicznych Poland
Absolwent studiów arabistycznych na Wydziale Neofilologii Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu (2010). W latach 2008–2009 studiował również język i literaturę turecką na Uniwersytecie Kaukaskim (Kafkas Üniversitesi) we wschodniej Turcji. Obecnie pracuje w Pracowni Bibliografii Poloników Zagranicznych Biblioteki Narodowej. Interesują go zagadnienia językoznawstwa historyczno-porównawczego (szczególnie zachodnio-północny areał języków irańskich) oraz metodyka badań osmanistycznych w dziedzinie literatury i języka.
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