Berlin Staatsbibliothek Petermann II 278 - 1

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)	Forty Viziers: Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr
└ Language Group within Version	Turkish Forty Viziers
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition

Languages
Language of text	Turkish
Regional or specific Language of text	Ottoman Turkish
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions

Note
Pertsch notes that this manuscript is likely a copy of Berlin Staatsbibliothek Petermann I 729, due to the replication not only of the texts, but also small scribal anomalies. See Pertsch (1889) no. 438, pp. 434-435, for more.

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	Unknown (before 1867)
Source of Date of Manuscript Production

Physical Description
Material
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	188
Height	315
Width	210
Script style/form	Naskh Arabic Script
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	1: Ḥikâyet-i Ḳırḳ vezîr 2: Baḫtiyâr-nâme (nicht gegeben) 3: al-Faraj baʿd al-shiddah (nicht gegeben)

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	Pertsch (1889), SBB and Qalamos: https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE1Book_manuscript_00064426
Modern Research Literature

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript