Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, Turc suppl. turc 428
From The Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript Identification | |
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| Reference Number | 40Vezir6 |
| Location | Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | MS Turc, Supplément turc 428 |
| Page/Folio range | 1-257 |
| Textual Content and Tradition | |
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| Standardised title of narrative | Ḥikāyet-i Erba‘īn Ṣubḥ u Mesā |
| Incipit or textual title | 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 | BNF catalogue: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc93744g?collect |
| Languages | |
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| Language of text | Turkish |
| Regional or specific Language of text | Ottoman Turkish |
| Source for regional or specific Language of text | |
| Digitisation and Editions | |
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| Digitisation | https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10082919p |
| Modern Editions | |
| Note |
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Note: the St Andrews database, and some accompanying literature inaccurately dates this text as 20th century; the BNF catalogue (and the digitised version of the text) suggest instead that it is a 17th century manuscript.
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| 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 | BNF catalogue: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc93744g?collect |
| Physical Description | |
|---|---|
| Material | |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 257 |
| Height | 190 |
| Width | 123 |
| Script style/form | Neskhi, Turkish nestalik |
| 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 | BNF: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc93744g?collect, St Andrews: https://www.islam-anatolia.ac.uk/data/documents/FR_BNF_Supplement_turc_428 |
| Modern Research Literature | Kızıltan (1991), Gara (2024) |
| Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript | |
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