Berlin Staatsbibliothek MS. or. quart. 149

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr
Incipit or textual title	Ḳırḳ vezīr ḥikāyeti, قرق وزير حكايتى
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

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

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions

Note
See Pertsch (1889) no. 456, p. 447, for more.

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author	Şeyḫ-zāde
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1568/03/21 (22 Ramadan 975^AH)
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Pertsch (1889)

Physical Description
Material
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	80
Height	215
Width	155
Script style/form	Dīwānī Arabic script
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	SBB and Qalamos: https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE1Book_manuscript_00004465, Pertsch (1889): http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000720B00120467
Modern Research Literature	Kızıltan (1991), Gibb (1886), Duda (1930)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript