Стари извор, нова сазнања: изазови аутографа Путописа Евлије Челебије
Old Sources, New Discoveries: Challenges of the Autograph of Evliya Çelebiʼs Travelogue

Summary/Abstract: It has been two centuries now since the importance of Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname was recognized, but his monumental work is far from being fully explored and explained. Serbian and ex-Yugoslav historiography and Oriental studies became familiar with Evliya’s work at the very beginning of the 20th century and the data contained in his travel account has ever since been an unavoidable source.New examinations of the autograph have shown that Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatnamesi for the most part a reliable and trustworthy source, revealing, on the other hand,major shortcomings resulting from the use of its 19th-century uncritical and faulty edition. The new Turkish edition brings very important, even quite surprising additions, but they have not been made available to the Serbian-speaking public yet. This Paper points to the types of mistakes and oversights in the old Turkish edition andHazim Šabanović’s Serbo-Croatian translation, as well as to the possible amount of omitted text relating to the area of the present-day Serbia, urging for a new, critical edition furnished with commentaries, facsimiles and accompanying studies.

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