London British Library Stowe Or. 20

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr
Incipit or textual title
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	Rieu (1888)

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
See Rieu (1888) p. 219. From the British Library catalogue: "Copies of the Forty Vezirs vary considerably with regard to the subjects and the arrangement of the tales. The text in this copy substantially agrees with the translation of Behrnauer and has the same stories, with some divergences in detail. It is also, therefore, less complete than Add MS 7882. It is lacking the story of the second night. The manuscript has lost about a page at the beginning and the same amount at the end. It is also missing two folios after f 10 and one after f 13. A later hand has supplied ff 2-3." [Added by Jane Bonsall]

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author	Şeyḫ-zāde
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1601 - 1700
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Rieu (1888)

Physical Description
Material
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	171
Height	248
Width	178
Script style/form	Neskhi
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	Rieu (1888), https://searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/032-003689095
Modern Research Literature	Gibb (1886), Gara (2024), Kızıltan (1991), Duda (1930)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation