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Or 7322
- Record Id:
- 032-003689082
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003689082
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106211988.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 7322
- Title:
- [Kırk Vezir hikayesi] - [قرق وزير حكايەسی]
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains the well-known tale of the Forty Viziers, translated from an Arabic original called Ḥikāyat arbaᶜīn ṣubḥ wa masāᵓby Ahmet Mısri, better known as Şeyhzade, in the time of Murat II.
This copy lacks the first few folios and begins in the middle of the epitome which tells of the circumstances under which the Tale was told. The First Vizier's story appears on f 5v. This copy corresponds closely in text and arrangement with the one in Add MS 7882.
The upper margin of the last folio is missing.
The manuscript was copied in 1010 AH (1601-02 CE) by Mahmud İbn-i Muhyiddin.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003689082
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003689082
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 text, 182 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1601
- End Date:
- 1602
- Date Range:
- 1010
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials : Paper
Foliation : European, 182 ff
Dimensions : 218 mm x 135 mm
Script : Nesih, vocalized
- Information About Copies:
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For other copies, see the Catalogues of Paris, nos. 378-79, 388-92; Uri, p. 305, no. 17; Dresden, nos. 149, 245; Leipzig, no. 330; Krafft, p. 53 (six copies); Leiden, no. 501; Uppsala, no. 111; Lund, no. 5; Saint Petersburg, nos. 579-582; Vienna, no. 430; Rosen, Marsigli Collection, p. 21, no. 3548; and Gibb's preface, p. 10.
- Publications:
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Tarih-i Kırk Vezir (Dersaadet: Matbaa-yı Ahmet Kâmil, 1325 [1909]). Other copies were also produced in Istanbul in 1283 AH (1866-67 CE) and 1285 AH (1868-69 CE). For more information on these, see Journal asiatique, 6e série, Art. XI, p. 484; and XIV, p. 87.
The introduction and the tales of the first twenty days, edited by H. N. Belletête, were printed posthumously: Ahmet-i Misri, Contes turcs en langue turque, extraits du livre intitulé, Les quarante viziers, edited by Belletête, Henri Nicolas (Paris: de l'Imprimerie impériale, 1812).
An incomplete French translation, by Pétis de la Croix, will be found in the Panthéon Littéraire, Contes orientaux, pp. 301-367.
A German version of the whole work, from a Dresden manuscript, was published by Behrnauer: Die vierzig Veziere oder weisen Meister, edited by Behrnauer, Walter Friedrich Adolf (Leipzig: Teubner, 1851).
A more complete translation is that of E. J. W. Gibb, which comprises no less than 112 tales collected from all available sources: Gibb, E. J. W., The history of the vezirs or the story of the forty morns and eves (London: Redway, 1886).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe
- Related Material:
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Other copies can be found at Or 7323, Add MS 5968, Add MS 7882, and Stowe Or 20.
For more information on the text, please see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, p. 216.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Add MS 5968
Add MS 7882
Or 7323
Stowe Or 20