1947 edition in modern Mongolian script, translated by Tsendiin Damdinsüren
Author
Unknown
Original title
ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠤᠨ ᠨᠢᠭᠤᠴᠠ ᠲᠣᠪᠴᠢᠶᠠᠨ
Country
Mongol Empire
Language
Middle Mongolian
Subject
History of the Mongol Empire
Publication date
Year of the Rat in the 13th century (c. 1228/1229, 1240, 1252, 1264)
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The Secret History of the Mongols (Mongolian: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠤᠨ ᠨᠢᠭᠤᠴᠠ ᠲᠣᠪᠴᠢᠶᠠᠨMongɣol‑un niɣuca tobciyan, Khalkha Mongolian: Монголын нууц товчоо, Mongoliin nuuts towchoo; Chinese: 蒙古秘史; pinyin: Měnggǔ Mìshǐ) is the oldest surviving literary work in a Mongolian language. Written for the Mongol royal family some time after the death of Genghis Khan in 1227, it recounts his life and conquests, and partially, the reign of his successor Ögedei Khan.
The author is unknown and wrote in the Middle Mongol language using Mongolian script. The date of the text is uncertain, as the colophon to the text describes the book as having been finished in the Year of the Mouse, on the banks of the Kherlen River at Khodoe Aral, corresponding to an earliest possible figure of 1228.[1]
While the Secret History was preserved in part as the basis for a number of chronicles such as the Jami' al-tawarikh, Shengwu qinzheng lu, and Altan Tobchi, the full Mongolian body only survived from a version made around the 1400s at the start of the Ming dynasty, where the pronunciation was transcribed into Chinese characters as a tool to help interpreters[1] under the title The Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty (Chinese: 元朝秘史; pinyin: Yuáncháo Mìshǐ). About two-thirds of the Secret History also appear in slightly different versions in the 17th-century Mongolian chronicle Altan Tobchi (lit.'Golden Chronicle') by Lubsang-Danzin.
The Secret History is regarded as the single most significant native Mongolian account of Genghis Khan. Linguistically, it provides the richest source of pre-Classical Mongol and Middle Mongol.[2] The Secret History is regarded as a piece of classic literature in both Mongolia and the rest of the world, and has been translated into more than 40 languages.[3]
^ abThe Secret History of the Mongols. Penguin Classics. Translated by Atwood, Christopher Pratt. Dublin: Penguin Books. 2023. ISBN 978-0-241-19791-2.
^Rachewiltz, Igor de (2004). Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century. Brill. p. xxvi. ISBN 978-90-04-13159-0.
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for the fatal poisoning of Genghis Khan's father, Yesugei, for which theMongols blamed the Tatars according to TheSecretHistoryoftheMongols. Ancient...
form the Mongolian nation and other Inner Asian people.[citation needed] Almost all of tribes and clans mentioned in theSecretHistoryoftheMongols and...
for the breeding of horses, which greatly assisted their expansion. As theMongol Empire began to fragment from 1260, conflict between theMongols and...
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can be identified from Turkic and Mongolic historical texts like the Orkhon inscriptions, SecretHistoryoftheMongols, and Altan Tobchi. However, these...
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for the fatal poisoning of Genghis Khan's father, Yesugei for which theMongols blamed the Tatars according to TheSecretHistoryoftheMongols. Likewise...
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of the Secret History oftheMongols, which alters and augments his position in early Mongol society. Although theSecretHistory states that Shigi Qutuqu...
translation oftheSecretHistoryoftheMongols in eleven volumes of Papers on Far Eastern History (1971–1985). He became a senior Fellow ofthe Division of Pacific...
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supervised the Khamag Mongols until his death in 1171. He had two sons - Jochi and Altan. According to TheSecretHistoryoftheMongols, Altan denied requests...
for the fatal poisoning of Genghis Khan's father, Yesugei, for which theMongols blamed the Tatars according to TheSecretHistoryoftheMongols. The Mongol...
throw theMongols into a panic. More than 3,500 Mongols drowned in the river while trying to flee, and theMongol stockades were all burned to the ground...
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