London British Library Add. MS. 5968

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Ḥikāyet-i Erba‘īn Ṣubḥ u Mesā
Incipit or textual title	Hikayet-i arba'in subh u mesa - حكايت اربعين صبح و مسا
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	Archives Hub catalogue: http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb59-apartialcatalogueofthebritishlibrary'smanuscriptholdingsinottomanturkish/addms5968

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
Note from Archives Hub catalogue (and from Rieu, 1888): the text found in this manuscript 'substantially agrees' with Behrnauer's 1851 edition, but it is 'shorter and incorrectly written'. It is also similar to London British Library Add. MS. 7882, and is missing the story of the second night found in that text. See Rieu (1888), p. 219 for further details.

Authorship and Production
Scribe	el-Fakir Ali Edirnevi
Author	Şehzade
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1730/12/04 (1143^AH)
Source of Date of Manuscript Production

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	152
Height	216
Width	165
Script style/form	Nesih
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	Archives Hub catalogue: http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb59-apartialcatalogueofthebritishlibrary'smanuscriptholdingsinottomanturkish/addms5968, Rieu (1888)
Modern Research Literature	Kızıltan (1991)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript