Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 3639

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Arab11
Location	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Siglum/Shelfmark	Arabe 3639 (Ancienne cote : Supplément arabe 1791)
Page/Folio range

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Al-Wuzarāʾ as-sabʿa (The Seven Viziers)
Incipit or textual title	Ḥikāyat al-malik al-mutawwaj maʿa ʼmraʾabfdaec5f12e6069f71176fa1d3adc1e6
Version (siglum)	A (The Seven Viziers)
└ Language Group within Version	Arabic A
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ 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	Arabic
Regional or specific Language of text	Middle Arabic
Source for regional or specific Language of text	Redwan (2023)

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b110031886
Modern Editions

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	ca. 1700
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Redwan (2023)

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	76
Height	200
Width	150
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Redwan, One against Seven. Variations on the Misogynistic Nature of "The Seven Sages" in Diffrent Arabic Manuscript Copies (17th - 18th Centuries) (2023), Rima Redwan: „Al-Wuzarāʾ al-sabʿa“. Eine kodikologische und narratologische Analyse der Manuskripte Berlin Sprenger 1368 und Glaser 166. unveröff. Bachelorarbeit. Berlin 2016, Basset , Deux manuscrits d'une version arabe inédite du recueil des sept vizirs (1903)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript