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DescriptionA Fragment of the Epic of Sulqarnai (A 14th-Century Mongolian Alexander Romance).jpg
English: A fragment of a 14th-century Mongolian manuscript of the Alexander Romance, likely based on a Middle Turkic or Persian version. In this rendition, Alexander the Great is called “Sulqarnai,” a Mongolianized form of the Qur’anic term Dhu al-Qarnayn. Fragments of this version of the Alexander Romance have been discovered in Turfan, part of the former territory of the Chagatai Khanate.

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  • 12a1. bolju aqu či. Ede irgen orγan činu bügüde üküjü
  • 12a2. qočarba:su činu ber aγsan činu γaγčaγa:r yaγu:n tus-a.
  • 12a3. Čimayi bürün ene metü ayi:surun daγaqun aran ülü törei
  • 12a4. j-e. Či bürün teyi:n boluγsan üjügü:r öbe:riye:n gemšijü
  • 12a5. bi bürün. Ene usun es-e uγu:ba:su ya:kin eyi:n [. . .]
  • 12a6. bi keme:n gemšiküi-e:če [ülü] aiqu böge:sü uγu:. Kerbe[. ..]
  • 12a7. či qoina maγu:i bolqu či keme:n ögüle[be. . . .]
  • 12a8. Sulqarnai sonosču teyi:n bö[ge:sü . . . yaγu:n]
  • 12a9. tus-a bolqu keme:n γarturiya:n bari[ju . . .]
  • 12a10. usun sačiju ilebe:sü arča modun-u n[abči]n [. . .]
  • 12a11. tusču arča modun tereküber öbül jun qatan ül[ü]
  • 12a12. qoqiraqui bolju teyi:n ki:jü aγsan tügel Mi[s]ir
Date 14th century
date QS:P,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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  • D, Tumurtogoo (2006) Mongolian Monuments in Uyghur-Mongolian Script (XIII-XVI Centuries), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
  • Cleaves, Francis W. “An Early Mongolian Version of the Alexander Romance.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 22 (1959): 1–99.
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A fragment of a 14th-century Mongolian manuscript of the Alexander Romance, produced in the Chagatai Khanate. In this version, Alexander is called “Sulqarnai,” a Mongolianized form of the Qur’anic term Dhu al-Qarnayn.

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