London British Library Add. MS. 5968

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

40Vezir32

Location

London, British Library

Siglum / Shelfmark

Add. 5968

Page / Folio range

1-152

Textual Content & 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

Source for textual relationship

Rieu (1888)

Languages

Language of text

Turkish

Regional / specific language

Ottoman Turkish

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 & Production

Scribe

El-Fakir Ali Edirnevi

Author

Şehzade

Date of Production

1730/12/04 (1143^AH)

Physical Description

Material

Paper

Total pages / folios

152

Height

216

Width

165

Script style / form

Nesih

Prose or verse

Prose

Illustrations

No

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Archives Hub catalogue: http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb59-apartialcatalogueofthebritishlibrary'smanuscriptholdingsinottomanturkish/addms5968, Rieu (1888)

Modern Research Literature

Kızıltan (1991)

Research Material

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