KÖROĞLU EPIC (CHODZKO-PARIS COPY)

Name: KÖROĞLU EPIC (CHODZKO-PARIS COPY)
Author: Alexander Chodzko (d. 1804 - ö. 1891)

Title	KÖROĞLU EPIC (CHODZKO-PARIS COPY)
Author	Alexander Chodzko (d. 1804 - ö. 1891)
Publication Date:	01/02/2022
Subject	Minstrel Literature - folk tale
Type	Book
Language	Persian
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Library:	Dictionary of Turkish Literature Works
Record ID	koroglu-destani-chodzko-paris-nushasi
Date	19. yy
Notes	The work was compiled by Alexander Chodzko, who served in various positions at the Russian Embassy in Iran between 1830 and 1841. This work, which collects the oral products of Turks and other people in Northern Iran and on the shores of the Caspian Sea, is currently in the Turkish Manuscripts Fund of the National Library of Paris, along with Chodzko's personal archive materials, Suppl. It is registered at Pers 994-Don 1441. Another feature of the work is that it contains 13 branches of the Köroğlu Epic (Chodzko 1842; İsmayılova 2016:151; Uzun 2017:240). The copy known as the Paris Copy, since the original manuscript of this work, in which the Köroğlu Epic was compiled for the first time, is in Paris today, was published by Chodzko in 1842 as The Bandit-Minstrel of Northern Iran. It was published in London under the title Examples of Iranian Oral Poetry as Found in Köroğlu's Poems and Adventures and in the Folk Songs of the People Living on the Coasts of the Caspian Sea (Chodzko 1842). In this way, many researchers have had the opportunity to access the Köroğlu Epic. With this publication, the 13 branches of the Köroğlu Epic in this copy, which became known as the Chodzko Copy, were also published in Baku under the name "Koroğlu (Paris Copy)" (Abbaslı 1997; Abbaslı 2005). During this duty of Chodzko, on Wednesday, 15 Rebiülevvel 1250 [22 July 1834], Hacı Mirza Mirza Abdülvahap wrote the Köroğlu Epic, compiled from Âşık Sadık upon İskender's initiative; Hacı Mirza İskender's employees, Mirza Mehdi Gilani, Hazretkulu Bey and Yakup Bey, also witnessed the compilation. The manuscript was edited by Mahmut Han Dünbüli Dircuy. According to Dircuy, the epic text is correct, but there are a few errors in the Turkish text. Although Mirza İskender identified these errors, Dircuy mentioned that he did not have the opportunity to correct them (Abbaslı 2005: 217). In the original manuscript, which is 398 pages, the 13 branches of the Köroğlu Epic are named as "the first assembly, the second assembly". Chodzko, who remained faithful to this nomenclature in his work, gave these titles under the headings "Adventures and Irticals of Köroğlu, the Bandit Lover of Northern Iran (Translated from Iranian Turkish)", under the headings "Introduction to Köroğlu" and "Köroğlu" (Chodzko 1842: 17-344). The prose part of the text, written in the original manuscript shikaste script, is in Persian, His poems are in Azerbaijani Turkish. Persian translations are given in relatively small letters below the verses of the poem (Abbaslı 2005: 13; İsmayılova 2016: 151). The work published by Chodzko consists of an introduction and 13 titles. While basic information about the book (VII-X) is included in the "Introduction" section, information about Köroğlu and the Köroğlu Epic is given in the second title, "About Köroğlu" (3-15). In the third title, "Köroğlu's Adventures and Irticals", there are 13 branches of the Köroğlu Epic (17-344). The fourth title of the study is "Popular Songs of the Astrakhan Tatars" (347-372), the fifth title is "Three Songs of the Kalmuks" (372-375), the sixth title is "Turkmen Songs" (379-398), the seventh title is "Songs of the Iranian Turks" (401-414), the eighth title is "Songs of the Persians" (417-450), the ninth title is "Songs of the Gilanites and Others". (453-504); (583-592). In the first assembly where the Köroğlu Epic was given, the introduction of Köroğlu, the blinding of his father Mirza Sarraf, the emergence of horses, their homeland, their revenge and the death of Mirza Sarraf are described. It is told that Köroğlu, who won the fight with Deli Hasan in the second parliament, went to Azerbaijan and collected the insane. Köroğlu, who wanted to migrate to the Greek land after the inspection of the Azerbaijani Sultan, who learned that Köroğlu had collected madmen, fought with Hüseyin Ali Khan, whom he encountered in Yerevan, and migrated to Çamlıbel after the war he won. In the third assembly, it is told that Hace Yakup informed Köroğlu about Ayvaz, whom he saw in Urfa and had his picture drawn, and Köroğlu, who went to Urfa and took Ayvaz, returned to Çamlıbel. It is told that in the fourth parliament, Sultan Murat sent a letter to Köroğlu, whose reputation he heard and fell in love with, asking his daughter Nigar Hanım to kidnap him from Istanbul, Köroğlu reading the letter, going on a trip and his meeting with Nigar Hanım. This branch continues in the fifth parliament. It is told that Bürcü Sultan, who learned that Nigar had been kidnapped, followed Köroğlu with his army and was defeated, and how Köroğlu, who attacked the army of the Frankish Sultan's son to pay for the wedding expenses on the Çamlıbel road, won the war and had his wedding held in Çamlıbel. In the sixth parliament, Hasan Pasha, who wanted to possess Kırat, announced that the person who kidnapped Kırat would be rewarded at the feast he organized, Keçel Hamza, who was aspiring for this duty, went to Çamlıbel and accidentally kidnapped Dorat, Köroğlu, who rode Kırat, went after Hamza, Hamza, who changed Kırat with Dorat at the mill, kidnapped Kırat, and Greek dressed as a minstrel. It is told that Köroğlu, who went to the city, took Kırat and returned to Çamlıbel. It is narrated that Köroğlu, who wanted to host Kiziroğlu, who came to Çamlıbel with his army in the seventh parliament, wanted to collect tribute from the caravans as the supplies in Çamlıbel decreased. It is told that Kars Pasha's daughter Perizat Hanım and Köroğlu, who communicated through a peddler in the eighth parliament, fell in love with each other, and that Köroğlu, who went to Kars disguised as a fortune teller and met with Perizat Hanım, kidnapped her lover. It is told that in the ninth parliament, Ayvaz and other Crazy people who went to Tokat to bring crane meat were captured by Hasan Pasha and Köroğlu, who learned about this, went to Tokat with the Deliler and Mustafa Bey and rescued the Crazy people. In the tenth parliament, Nazar Celali, who heard Ayvaz's praise, wanted to fight Köroğlu to bring Ayvaz to Tercem, Nazar Celali, who came near Çamlıbel, gave up his idea and wanted to be Köroğlu's guest after his meeting with Deli Mehter, Ayvaz, who could not tolerate an insult made to him at the feast organized for Nazar Celali's guest, left Çamlıbel and the events he encountered outside Çamlıbel. It is told that he and Bolu Bey went to Çamlıbel and wanted to fight with Köroğlu, and Köroğlu, who won this fight, forgave Ayvaz. The eleventh chamber contains two branches. Demircioğlu, who was injured in a fight with Ayvaz in Çamlıbel in the first branch, left Çamlıbel to take revenge on Köroğlu after Köroğlu did not react to Ayvaz, asked for help from Mustafa Bey, and came to Çamlıbel with Mustafa Bey. Köroğlu praised Mustafa Bey in the poem he read to Nigar in Çamlıbel, and Mustafa Bey saw this. It is said that instead of fighting Köroğlu, he said that they were friends. On the other hand, it is told that the Bolu Bey, whom Hasan Pasha, the Pasha of Istanbul, appointed to have Köroğlu killed by marrying his daughter Dona Hanım and promised that he would reward her, came to Çamlıbel, Köroğlu, who defeated the Bolu Bey, learned the reason why the Bolu Bey came to Çamlıbel and promised to marry the Bolu Bey and Dona Hanım, whom he forgave. The branch continues in the twelfth parliament. Köroğlu, who agreed to go to Istanbul as the prisoner of the Bolu Bey so that the Bolu Bey and Dona Hanım could marry, was imprisoned in a well in Istanbul, İsa Balı, who saw Köroğlu in trouble in his dream, went to Istanbul and appeared before Dona Hanım, Dona Hanım, who was in love with İsa Balı, told Köroğlu's location and İsa Balı, who learned this, pulled Köroğlu from the well. It is told that Köroğlu, who won the fight, married İsa Balı and Dona Hanım, with whom they came to Çamlıbel. In the thirteenth parliament, Köroğlu, who thought he was getting old, left Çamlıbel to go to Isfahan and then to Mecca, to Shah Abbas. Shah Abbas declared that he would reward the person who caught Köroğlu. Köroğlu, approaching Isfahan, encountered Almas Khan and Behram Khan, whom Shah Abbas had expelled from Isfahan, and was killed by these people whom he was a guest. Shah Abbas, who learned this, It is narrated that after he learned about the oath taken by Köroğlu, one of the Delis he had summoned from Çamlıbel, to stop fighting, he handed over Almas Khan and Behram Khan to the Delis and donated Çamlıbel to Ayvaz (Chodzko 1842: 17-344; Abbaslı 2005: 13-216).
ISBN	978-9944-237-87-1
Madde Yazarı	Doç. Dr. Fazıl Özdamar
Alfabesi	Arap
Yapısı	Manzum-Mensur
Niteliği	Derleme
Kaynakça	Abbaslı, İsrafil [haz.] (1997).Koroğlu (Paris Nüshesi). Bakü: Ozan Neşriyyatı. Abbaslı, İsrafil [haz.] (2005).Koroğlu (Paris Nüshesi). 2. Baskı, Bakü: Şark-Garp. Chodzko, Alexander (1842). "Specimen of the Popular Poetry of Persia, as Found in the Adventures and Improvisations of Kurroglou",the Bandit-Minstrel of Northern Persia, and in the Songs of the People Inhabiting the Shores of the Caspian Sea; Orally Collected and Translated, with Philological and Historical Notes by Alexander Chodzko[Kuzey İran’ın Eşkıya-Âşığı Köroğlu’nun Şiirlerinde ve Maceralarında Bulunduğu Şekliyle ve de Hazar Denizi Kıyılarında Yaşayan Halkların Söyledikleri Türkülerdeki Şekliyle İran Sözlü Şiirinden Örnekler]. London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. İsmayılova, Elza (2016). “Köroğlu Destanı’nın Avrupa Dillerine Çevirisi ve Yayını: Yabancı Araştırmacılar Gözüyle İncelenmesi”,Akademik Bakış Dergisi. S 57, s. 150-165. Uzun, Enver (2017). “Elyas Muşegyan’ın “Nağmeler” Kitabı (Köroğlu Destanı Üzerine Yapılan Çalışmalar)”,Bolu’dan Türk Dünyasına Köroğlu Çalışmalarının Dünü, Bugünü ve Yarını Uluslararası Çalıştayı,15-16 Eylül 2017-Bolu, Bildiri Kitabı. İstanbul: AİBÜ BAMER Yay., s. 227-244.
Atıf Bilgileri	Özdamar, Fazıl. "KÖROĞLU DESTANI (CHODZKO-PARİS NÜSHASI)".Türk Edebiyatı Eserler Sözlüğü,http://tees.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/koroglu-destani-chodzko-paris-nushasi. [Erişim Tarihi: 25 Ağustos 2025].

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KÖROĞLU EPIC (CHODZKO-PARIS COPY)

Author Alexander Chodzko (d. 1804 - ö. 1891)

Publication Date 01/02/2022

Subject Minstrel Literature - folk tale

Type Book

Language Persian

Digital No

Manuscript No

Library Dictionary of Turkish Literature Works

Record ID koroglu-destani-chodzko-paris-nushasi

Date 19. yy

Notes The work was compiled by Alexander Chodzko, who served in various positions at the Russian Embassy in Iran between 1830 and 1841. This work, which collects the oral products of Turks and other people in Northern Iran and on the shores of the Caspian Sea, is currently in the Turkish Manuscripts Fund of the National Library of Paris, along with Chodzko's personal archive materials, Suppl. It is registered at Pers 994-Don 1441. Another feature of the work is that it contains 13 branches of the Köroğlu Epic (Chodzko 1842; İsmayılova 2016:151; Uzun 2017:240). The copy known as the Paris Copy, since the original manuscript of this work, in which the Köroğlu Epic was compiled for the first time, is in Paris today, was published by Chodzko in 1842 as The Bandit-Minstrel of Northern Iran. It was published in London under the title Examples of Iranian Oral Poetry as Found in Köroğlu's Poems and Adventures and in the Folk Songs of the People Living on the Coasts of the Caspian Sea (Chodzko 1842). In this way, many researchers have had the opportunity to access the Köroğlu Epic. With this publication, the 13 branches of the Köroğlu Epic in this copy, which became known as the Chodzko Copy, were also published in Baku under the name "Koroğlu (Paris Copy)" (Abbaslı 1997; Abbaslı 2005). During this duty of Chodzko, on Wednesday, 15 Rebiülevvel 1250 [22 July 1834], Hacı Mirza Mirza Abdülvahap wrote the Köroğlu Epic, compiled from Âşık Sadık upon İskender's initiative; Hacı Mirza İskender's employees, Mirza Mehdi Gilani, Hazretkulu Bey and Yakup Bey, also witnessed the compilation. The manuscript was edited by Mahmut Han Dünbüli Dircuy. According to Dircuy, the epic text is correct, but there are a few errors in the Turkish text. Although Mirza İskender identified these errors, Dircuy mentioned that he did not have the opportunity to correct them (Abbaslı 2005: 217). In the original manuscript, which is 398 pages, the 13 branches of the Köroğlu Epic are named as "the first assembly, the second assembly". Chodzko, who remained faithful to this nomenclature in his work, gave these titles under the headings "Adventures and Irticals of Köroğlu, the Bandit Lover of Northern Iran (Translated from Iranian Turkish)", under the headings "Introduction to Köroğlu" and "Köroğlu" (Chodzko 1842: 17-344). The prose part of the text, written in the original manuscript shikaste script, is in Persian, His poems are in Azerbaijani Turkish. Persian translations are given in relatively small letters below the verses of the poem (Abbaslı 2005: 13; İsmayılova 2016: 151). The work published by Chodzko consists of an introduction and 13 titles. While basic information about the book (VII-X) is included in the "Introduction" section, information about Köroğlu and the Köroğlu Epic is given in the second title, "About Köroğlu" (3-15). In the third title, "Köroğlu's Adventures and Irticals", there are 13 branches of the Köroğlu Epic (17-344). The fourth title of the study is "Popular Songs of the Astrakhan Tatars" (347-372), the fifth title is "Three Songs of the Kalmuks" (372-375), the sixth title is "Turkmen Songs" (379-398), the seventh title is "Songs of the Iranian Turks" (401-414), the eighth title is "Songs of the Persians" (417-450), the ninth title is "Songs of the Gilanites and Others". (453-504); (583-592). In the first assembly where the Köroğlu Epic was given, the introduction of Köroğlu, the blinding of his father Mirza Sarraf, the emergence of horses, their homeland, their revenge and the death of Mirza Sarraf are described. It is told that Köroğlu, who won the fight with Deli Hasan in the second parliament, went to Azerbaijan and collected the insane. Köroğlu, who wanted to migrate to the Greek land after the inspection of the Azerbaijani Sultan, who learned that Köroğlu had collected madmen, fought with Hüseyin Ali Khan, whom he encountered in Yerevan, and migrated to Çamlıbel after the war he won. In the third assembly, it is told that Hace Yakup informed Köroğlu about Ayvaz, whom he saw in Urfa and had his picture drawn, and Köroğlu, who went to Urfa and took Ayvaz, returned to Çamlıbel. It is told that in the fourth parliament, Sultan Murat sent a letter to Köroğlu, whose reputation he heard and fell in love with, asking his daughter Nigar Hanım to kidnap him from Istanbul, Köroğlu reading the letter, going on a trip and his meeting with Nigar Hanım. This branch continues in the fifth parliament. It is told that Bürcü Sultan, who learned that Nigar had been kidnapped, followed Köroğlu with his army and was defeated, and how Köroğlu, who attacked the army of the Frankish Sultan's son to pay for the wedding expenses on the Çamlıbel road, won the war and had his wedding held in Çamlıbel. In the sixth parliament, Hasan Pasha, who wanted to possess Kırat, announced that the person who kidnapped Kırat would be rewarded at the feast he organized, Keçel Hamza, who was aspiring for this duty, went to Çamlıbel and accidentally kidnapped Dorat, Köroğlu, who rode Kırat, went after Hamza, Hamza, who changed Kırat with Dorat at the mill, kidnapped Kırat, and Greek dressed as a minstrel. It is told that Köroğlu, who went to the city, took Kırat and returned to Çamlıbel. It is narrated that Köroğlu, who wanted to host Kiziroğlu, who came to Çamlıbel with his army in the seventh parliament, wanted to collect tribute from the caravans as the supplies in Çamlıbel decreased. It is told that Kars Pasha's daughter Perizat Hanım and Köroğlu, who communicated through a peddler in the eighth parliament, fell in love with each other, and that Köroğlu, who went to Kars disguised as a fortune teller and met with Perizat Hanım, kidnapped her lover. It is told that in the ninth parliament, Ayvaz and other Crazy people who went to Tokat to bring crane meat were captured by Hasan Pasha and Köroğlu, who learned about this, went to Tokat with the Deliler and Mustafa Bey and rescued the Crazy people. In the tenth parliament, Nazar Celali, who heard Ayvaz's praise, wanted to fight Köroğlu to bring Ayvaz to Tercem, Nazar Celali, who came near Çamlıbel, gave up his idea and wanted to be Köroğlu's guest after his meeting with Deli Mehter, Ayvaz, who could not tolerate an insult made to him at the feast organized for Nazar Celali's guest, left Çamlıbel and the events he encountered outside Çamlıbel. It is told that he and Bolu Bey went to Çamlıbel and wanted to fight with Köroğlu, and Köroğlu, who won this fight, forgave Ayvaz. The eleventh chamber contains two branches. Demircioğlu, who was injured in a fight with Ayvaz in Çamlıbel in the first branch, left Çamlıbel to take revenge on Köroğlu after Köroğlu did not react to Ayvaz, asked for help from Mustafa Bey, and came to Çamlıbel with Mustafa Bey. Köroğlu praised Mustafa Bey in the poem he read to Nigar in Çamlıbel, and Mustafa Bey saw this. It is said that instead of fighting Köroğlu, he said that they were friends. On the other hand, it is told that the Bolu Bey, whom Hasan Pasha, the Pasha of Istanbul, appointed to have Köroğlu killed by marrying his daughter Dona Hanım and promised that he would reward her, came to Çamlıbel, Köroğlu, who defeated the Bolu Bey, learned the reason why the Bolu Bey came to Çamlıbel and promised to marry the Bolu Bey and Dona Hanım, whom he forgave. The branch continues in the twelfth parliament. Köroğlu, who agreed to go to Istanbul as the prisoner of the Bolu Bey so that the Bolu Bey and Dona Hanım could marry, was imprisoned in a well in Istanbul, İsa Balı, who saw Köroğlu in trouble in his dream, went to Istanbul and appeared before Dona Hanım, Dona Hanım, who was in love with İsa Balı, told Köroğlu's location and İsa Balı, who learned this, pulled Köroğlu from the well. It is told that Köroğlu, who won the fight, married İsa Balı and Dona Hanım, with whom they came to Çamlıbel. In the thirteenth parliament, Köroğlu, who thought he was getting old, left Çamlıbel to go to Isfahan and then to Mecca, to Shah Abbas. Shah Abbas declared that he would reward the person who caught Köroğlu. Köroğlu, approaching Isfahan, encountered Almas Khan and Behram Khan, whom Shah Abbas had expelled from Isfahan, and was killed by these people whom he was a guest. Shah Abbas, who learned this, It is narrated that after he learned about the oath taken by Köroğlu, one of the Delis he had summoned from Çamlıbel, to stop fighting, he handed over Almas Khan and Behram Khan to the Delis and donated Çamlıbel to Ayvaz (Chodzko 1842: 17-344; Abbaslı 2005: 13-216).

ISBN 978-9944-237-87-1

Madde Yazarı Doç. Dr. Fazıl Özdamar

Alfabesi Arap

Yapısı Manzum-Mensur

Niteliği Derleme

Kaynakça Abbaslı, İsrafil [haz.] (1997).Koroğlu (Paris Nüshesi). Bakü: Ozan Neşriyyatı. Abbaslı, İsrafil [haz.] (2005).Koroğlu (Paris Nüshesi). 2. Baskı, Bakü: Şark-Garp. Chodzko, Alexander (1842). "Specimen of the Popular Poetry of Persia, as Found in the Adventures and Improvisations of Kurroglou",the Bandit-Minstrel of Northern Persia, and in the Songs of the People Inhabiting the Shores of the Caspian Sea; Orally Collected and Translated, with Philological and Historical Notes by Alexander Chodzko[Kuzey İran’ın Eşkıya-Âşığı Köroğlu’nun Şiirlerinde ve Maceralarında Bulunduğu Şekliyle ve de Hazar Denizi Kıyılarında Yaşayan Halkların Söyledikleri Türkülerdeki Şekliyle İran Sözlü Şiirinden Örnekler]. London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. İsmayılova, Elza (2016). “Köroğlu Destanı’nın Avrupa Dillerine Çevirisi ve Yayını: Yabancı Araştırmacılar Gözüyle İncelenmesi”,Akademik Bakış Dergisi. S 57, s. 150-165. Uzun, Enver (2017). “Elyas Muşegyan’ın “Nağmeler” Kitabı (Köroğlu Destanı Üzerine Yapılan Çalışmalar)”,Bolu’dan Türk Dünyasına Köroğlu Çalışmalarının Dünü, Bugünü ve Yarını Uluslararası Çalıştayı,15-16 Eylül 2017-Bolu, Bildiri Kitabı. İstanbul: AİBÜ BAMER Yay., s. 227-244.

Atıf Bilgileri Özdamar, Fazıl. "KÖROĞLU DESTANI (CHODZKO-PARİS NÜSHASI)".Türk Edebiyatı Eserler Sözlüğü,http://tees.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/koroglu-destani-chodzko-paris-nushasi. [Erişim Tarihi: 25 Ağustos 2025].