Abstract:

The Qur’an is a mesnevi giving information about the Qur’an, which is holy for Muslims. The author of the work is Abdurrahman Gubârî from Akşehir. He took lessons from well-known professors of the time. He also worked as a professor and joined the Iraqi expedition of Kanuni as a state chronicler in 1534. He was also a tutor of Orhan Çelebi, one of the sons of Şehzâde Bayezid. His works are Solomon-Nâme, Shebistan-i Hayal, Yusuf u Züleyhâ, Menâsik-i Hac, Mesâhat-nâme and Kâbe-nâme. He completed the Câbe-nâme in Mecca in 1556. There are a total of six copies of the Kâbe-nâme located at the Ankara TDK Library, Istanbul Üsküdar Hacı Selim Ağa Library, Kayseri Raşit Efendi Library, Manisa Provincial Public Library, London British Museum Library and Berlin Staatsbibliothek. All the copies except those in the London British Museum Library and Berlin Staatsbibliothek are studied. The Câbe-nâme is one of the works of the transition period from Ancient Anatolian Turkish to Classical Ottoman Turkish. The work provides information to researchers about the language and orthographic of the transition period. In this paper, the copy of Câbe-nâme registered in Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. or. Oct. 2923 was introduced and some orthographic features of the copy were examined.

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