Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, Turc 378

Manuscript Identification
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
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)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition

Languages
Language of text	Turkish
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions

Note
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

Authorship and Production
Scribe	Mustafa ibn Mohammed
Author	Ahmed-i Mısrî
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1446 - 1650 (850^AH)
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	BNF catalogue: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc92903m?collect

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	70
Height
Width
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript

Catalogues and Research Literature
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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