Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, Turc 389

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

40Vezir11

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Siglum / Shelfmark

Turc 378 (formerly Regius 1446)

Page / Folio range

1-317

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr

Incipit or textual title

Hikayet arbaʿin soubh ou mesa

Version (siglum)

Forty Viziers: Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr

Language Group within Version

Turkish Forty Viziers

Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version

Şeyḫ-zāde: Forty Viziers

Translated / adapted from (Version/Text)

Ahmed-i Mısrî: Forty Viziers

Source for textual relationship

St Andrews catalogue: https://www.islam-anatolia.ac.uk/data/documents/FR_BNF_Turc_379

Languages

Language of text

Turkish

Regional / specific language

Ottoman Turkish

Digitisation & Editions

Digitisation

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105097536

Note

Note: the BNF catalogue identifies this text as one composed by Aḥmed-i Mıṣrī; however, the St Andrews catalogue notes that Şeyḫ-zāde's works were often conflated with those of Aḥmed-i Mıṣrī.

Authorship & Production

Author

Şeyḫ-zāde

Date of Production

1630 (1039^AH)

Physical Description

Material

Paper

Total pages / folios

317

Height

195

Width

150

Script style / form

Neskhi

Prose or verse

Prose

Illustrations

No

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

St Andrews catalogue: https://www.islam-anatolia.ac.uk/data/documents/FR_BNF_Turc_379, BNF: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc929159?collect

Modern Research Literature

Duda (1930), Gibb (1886), Kızıltan (1991), Gara (2024)

Research Material

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