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From Archives Hub page for BL Add 5968: "The translator, who calls himself Ahmet Mısri in the present copy as well as in those found in Vienna, Leipzig and Saint Petersburg, is also known in other copies by his mahlas, Şeyhzade. In the preface, after praising the reigning sovereign, Sultan Murat İbn-i Mehmet İbn-i Bayezit Han (Murat II, 824-855 AH/1421-1455 CE), he says that the fittest gifts to be presented to His Majesty were books of wisdom. ''For that reason, I, Ahmet Mısri, made for the Sultan of the age a neat copy of the book entitled Hikayet-i arba''in subh u mesa and translated it from the Arabic into the Turkish tongue, so that the Padişah of the world might read with ease the graceful thoughts and phrases, the rhymes and assonances, the pertinent tales and apt quotations, etc., of my book.''."

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Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages	Forty Viziers: Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr
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Branch of the tradition	East
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Adapted into (version)	Ahmed-i Mısrî: Forty Viziers
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Recorded secondary versions
Forty Viziers: Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr Turkish Forty Viziers Ahmed-i Mısrî: Forty Viziers Şeyḫ-zāde: Forty Viziers

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Modern Scholarship and Editions
Modern research literature	Belletête (1812), Gibb (1886), Kızıltan (1991), Kızıltan (2002)
Modern Editions	Kızıltan, Kırk Vezir Hikâyeleri (1991), Behrnauer, Die Vierzig Oder Weisen Meister, Ein Altmorgenländischer Sittenroman Aus Dem Türkischen (1851), Birinci, Kırk Vezir Hikâyeleri (2012)

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+From Archives Hub page for BL Add 5968: "The translator, who calls himself Ahmet Mısri in the present copy as well as in those found in Vienna, Leipzig and Saint Petersburg, is also known in other copies by his mahlas, Şeyhzade. In the preface, after praising the reigning sovereign, Sultan Murat İbn-i Mehmet İbn-i Bayezit Han (Murat II, 824-855 AH/1421-1455 CE), he says that the fittest gifts to be presented to His Majesty were books of wisdom. <nowiki>''</nowiki>For that reason, I, Ahmet Mısri, made for the Sultan of the age a neat copy of the book entitled Hikayet-i arba<nowiki>''</nowiki>in subh u mesa and translated it from the Arabic into the Turkish tongue, so that the Padişah of the world might read with ease the graceful thoughts and phrases, the rhymes and assonances, the pertinent tales and apt quotations, etc., of my book.<nowiki>''</nowiki>."
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