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Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
Compiler: Şeyḫzāde شيخزاده
Title: Ḳırḳ Vezīr
Title: Kırk Vezir
Title: قرق وزير
Title: Tales of the Fourty Vezirs
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 350 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 20.4 × 15.1 cm.
Dimensions (written): × cm.
Condition
Layout
11 lines to the page
Hand(s)
Script: Bad, scrawly nastaʿlīq, carelessly written and spelt
Additions:
Binding
History
Origin: Compiled by Şeyḫzāde in 1446-1447 CEin the reign of Sulṭān Murād II
Provenance and Acquisition
Donated as part of the Royal library of George I (1660-1727) in 1715.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on E. G. Browne: A hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1900, abbreviated by the Yunus Emre Institute project team.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Yunus Emre Institute
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