The Vienna manuscript is written in the 8th century.It was well known through the Timurid era (Dankoff, 3), but only three manuscripts-referred to by the name of the city they were discovered in-survived to give us our modern knowledge of the text: The Kutadgu Bilig was completed in the history 843 sheep year and presented to Tavghach Bughra Khan, the prince of Kashgar. Some scholars suspect that the prologue to the Kutadgu Bilig, which is much more overtly Islamic than the rest of the text, was written by a different author-particularly the first prologue, which is in prose, unlike the rest of the text. He was about 50 years old when he completed the Kutadgu Bilig and upon presenting the completed work to the prince of Kashgar, was awarded the title Khāṣṣ Ḥājib ( خاص حاجب), translating as something like "Privy Chamberlain" (Dankoff, 2) or "Privy Councilor." He is often referred to as Yūsuf Khāṣṣ Ḥājib. The author of the Kutadgu Bilig was named Yūsuf and was born in Balasagun, which at the time was the winter capital of the Karakhanid empire and was located near present-day Tokmok in Kyrgyzstan. At several points throughout the Kutadgu Bilig, the author talks some about himself from this we know a certain amount about him.
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