On the issue of attribution of the handwritten manuscript miscellany titled abu-l-gazi. genealogy of the turks from the collection of institute of manuscripts of v. i. vernadsky national library of Ukraine

This work deals with certain issues of attribution of the handwritten manuscript miscellany "Abu-l-Gazi. Genealogy of the Turks"from the collection of Institute of Manuscripts of the National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadsky (Fund V "Odesa Society of History and Antiquities", No. 3780). The special attention is paid to the problems of the manuscript da-ting and ascertainment of facts about its owners. The main focus of the work was to study paleographic features and content of the texts of historical works and passages, inscriptions of various contents in the margins, the back sides of binding covers and on manuscript sheets which do not contain the main text. It was found that the manuscript under study is three separate manuscripts combined in one manuscript book, conventionally named according to the content or the alleged place of copying "Nogai", "Kumyk"(main) and "Kabardian"parts. It is determined that the "Kumyk"part was supposedly copied in the Kumyk lands of Dagestan at the end of the 18th century (after 1792) or at the beginning of the 19th century (after 1800) and at first belonged to a representative of the Kumyk nobility, from which it passed to Muhammad Effendi b. Khota. Apparently, he was that one who bound it into one manuscript together with two handwritten small notebooks around the beginning of the 19th century. It was found that the other two parts of the handwritten manuscript miscellany are dated to the second half of the 18th - early 19th centuries. The manuscript in which the three mentioned parts were combined was in use by Muhammad Effendi b. Khota (and possibly another owner of the manuscript after him as well) between 1804 and 1839. It was confirmed that the authorship of the text of the "Derbend-name"in the manuscript belongs to Mohammed Avabi Aktashi and that it contains an appendix (zeyl). It was found that the second owner of the "Kumyk"part and the first owner of the manuscript in its present form, Muhammad Effendi b. Khota lived among the Nogays, Abazin-Altykeseks and Kabardians in the Beshtau district (Pyatigorye region of the North Caucasus) and that he should probably be identified with Cutel-ogly Muhammad Effendi, a resident of the Sultan village (aul), information about which was transmitted in the notes of W. Glen. It is suggested that the manuscript in question was the protograph for the manuscripts of the "Turkic genealogy"and "Derbend-name"copied by the enlightener of the Kabardian people, Sh. Nogmof.