Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, Turc 389

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 and 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
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)	Ahmed-i Mısrî: Forty Viziers
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	St Andrews catalogue: https://www.islam-anatolia.ac.uk/data/documents/FR_BNF_Turc_379

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

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 and Production
Scribe
Author	Şeyḫ-zāde
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1630 (1039^AH)
Source of Date of Manuscript Production

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	317
Height	195
Width	150
Script style/form	Neskhi
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript

Catalogues and 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)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation

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