London British Library Add. MS. 7882
From The Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript Identification | |
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| Reference Number | 40Vezir3 |
| Location | London, British Library |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Turkish Manuscripts Additional MS 7882 |
| Page/Folio range | 1-261 |
| Textual Content and Tradition | |
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| Standardised title of narrative | Ḥikāyet-i Erba‘īn Ṣubḥ u Mesā |
| Incipit or textual title | Hikayet-i arba'in subh u mesa - حكايت اربعين صبح و مسا |
| Version (siglum) | Forty Viziers: Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr |
| └ Language Group within Version | Turkish Forty Viziers |
| └ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | Ahmed-i Mısrî: Forty Viziers |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | |
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | St Andrews catalogue: https://www.islam-anatolia.ac.uk/data/documents/UK_add_7882 |
| Languages | |
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| Language of text | Turkish |
| Regional or specific Language of text | |
| Source for regional or specific Language of text | |
| Digitisation and Editions | |
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| Digitisation | |
| Modern Editions | Kızıltan, Kırk Vezir Hikâyeleri (1991) |
| Note |
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See Rieu (1888) pp. 216-19 for details on the story order in this manuscript, and the corresponding parallels to those stories in Gibb and Behrnauer. |
| Authorship and Production | |
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| Scribe | |
| Author | Ahmed-i Mısrî |
| Place of Manuscript Production | |
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1601 - 1700 |
| Source of Date of Manuscript Production | |
| Physical Description | |
|---|---|
| Material | Paper |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 261 |
| Height | 260 |
| Width | 165 |
| Script style/form | Nesih |
| Prose or verse | Prose |
| Illustrations | No |
| Contents and Additional Texts | |
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| Other texts in the Manuscript | |
| Catalogues and Research Literature | |
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| Catalogue | St Andrews catalogue: https://www.islam-anatolia.ac.uk/data/documents/UK_add_7882, https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/fe50b2bd-d81f-3bfa-a797-d44e0cb4ac75?component=dbe698c3-db3d-30f7-be01-774f93603d1e, Rieu (1888) |
| Modern Research Literature | Kızıltan (1991), Gibb (1886), Gara (2024) |
| Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript | ||||
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