Yusuf Khass Hajib, {c. 1070} Wisdom of Royal Glory (Kutadgu Bilig): A Turko-Islamic Mirror for Princes, (1983) (wiki) [An Islamic “Mirror for Princes” guide for kingship.] Book of Dede Korkut {c. 15C} (Korkut Ata; Oghuz-nameh) (wiki) [The earliest surviving Turkish epic, reflecting the nomadic martial ethos.] Lewis, G. (tr.), The Book of Dede Korkut, (1974) Amazon Sumer, F.. A. Uysal and W. Walker (trs.), The Book of Dede Korkut: A Turkish Epic (1972) Amazon Kashghari, Mahmud {c. 1070}: R. Dankoff and J. Kelly, (trs.) Compendium of the Turkic Dialects (Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk), 3 vols. (1982). Online: vol. 1; vol. 2; vol. 3 [English translation of Arabic dictionary of medieval Turkish language and dialects, containing extensive information on medieval Turkish society.]
2- Anthologies of non-Turkic Sources about the Medieval Turks
Arabic Sources (Anthology) •Frenkel, Y. (Tr.), The Turkic Peoples in Medieval Arabic Writings (2014) [English translation of medieval Arabic texts mentioning Turks.] Byzantine Sources (Anthology) Moravcsik, Gyula, Byzantinoturcica, 2nd ed. 2 vols. (Berlin 1958) [German translation of medieval Greek and Slavic sources mentioning Turks.] Chinese Sources (Anthology) Chavannes, E. Documents sur les Tou-Kiue (Turcs) Occidentaux. (1903) Online [French translation of Chinese documents on medieval Turks] Ibn Fadlan Lunde, P. (tr.), Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travelers in the Far North (2012) (Amazon) [English translation of Arab geographers on Turks, Russia and Scandinavia] Frye, R. (tr.), Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-Century Traveler from Baghad to the Volga River, (2009) (Amazon)
3- Old Turkic (Göktürk) Runic Inscriptions (Orkhon Inscriptions)
[Pre-Islamic Turkish runic inscriptions from Inner Asia: wiki] Orkhon Inscriptions (wiki) Online edition and translation (online) Denison, R. The Orkhon Inscriptions: Being a Translation of Professor F. Thomsen’s Final Danish Rendering. (1930) online Erdal, M. A Grammar of Old Turkic, (2004) (online)
======= Reichl, K. “Medieval Turkish Epic and Popular Narrative” in K. Reichl, (ed.), Medieval Oral Literature (2012), 681-700.