Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, Turc 378
| Manuscript Identification | |
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| Reference Number | 40Vezir2 |
| Location | Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Turc 378 (formerly Regius 1372) |
| Page/Folio range | 1-70 |
| Textual Content and Tradition | |
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| Standardised title of narrative | Ḥikāyet-i Erba‘īn Ṣubḥ u Mesā |
| Incipit or textual title | |
| 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) | |
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| Language of text | Turkish |
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A note on dating: the BNF catalogue lists this manuscript as dating from the early seventeenth century, except for the last folio, which is deteriorated, but potentially corresponds with the date of 850 AH (1446) given in the manuscript. The suggestion given in the catalogue is that the final folio is a page of the original source manuscript, dating from the 15th century (and possibly a direct copy of Ahmed-i Mısrî's original), while the rest of the text represents a early seventeenth-century copy of missing remainder. The opening of the manuscript includes a dedication to Sultan Murad II (1421-1451/824-855), for whom Ahmed-i Mısrî's original was composed. The manuscript also includes the date of 'the first day of Safar 533' (8 October 1138), which the catalogue hypothesises may correspond with a date for the (now lost) Arabic origin text of the Forty Viziers, from which Ahmed-i Mısrî's work derives. |
| Authorship and Production | |
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| Scribe | Mustafa ibn Mohammed |
| Author | Ahmed-i Mısrî |
| Place of Manuscript Production | |
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1446 - 1650 (850AH) |
| Source of Date of Manuscript Production | BNF catalogue: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc92903m?collect |
| Physical Description | |
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| Material | Paper |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 70 |
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| Prose or verse | Prose |
| Illustrations | No |
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| Catalogues and Research Literature | |
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| Catalogue | BNF catalogue: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc92903m?collect, https://www.islam-anatolia.ac.uk/data/documents/FR_BNF_Turc_378 |
| Modern Research Literature | Gibb (1886), Gara (2024), Kızıltan (1991) |
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