Z Hikayat-i Kirk Wazir ("Stories of the 40 Viziers")

Title	Z Hikayat-i Kirk Wazir ("Stories of the 40 Viziers")
Publication Date:	late 17th - early 18th century.
Subject	Fiction
Type	kitap
Language	Turkish
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	4
Library:	MGIMO-UNIVERSITY RARE BOOK MUSEUM
Record ID	t000258
Library Location	MGIMO Rare Books
Date	late 17th - early 18th century.
Notes	Ottoman Empire, 18th century. (or even late 17th century), 19th century European brown leather binding. with gold embossing along the edges (on the spine and flyleaf - old number 56 of some library); defective (no beginning and no end). Black and red ink (headings), Naskh handwriting, close to Tevki (pronounced Ottoman), 21 lines per page, hafiz. There are 37 original sheets. European paper, thick, slightly yellowish (e.g. - bull's head). Traces of restoration: many sheets, including those with notes in the margins, have been trimmed (now the size of the original trimmed sheets is 18.1x13.5). At the beginning and at the end there are woven together (6 and 4 sheets, respectively) of another paper (all clean, only on sheet [6v.] there is an old cipher, and on sheet [38] there is an imprint of the seal of the National Bank of the IV People's Commissars of the RSFSR. L.1 (the original part) is an unreadable imprint of an oval seal. On sheet 22 there is an oval seal imprint with the Persian legend "Slave" God's Kadir-gali b. Yusuf 1238" (1822/1823).
Envanter numarası	258

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Z Hikayat-i Kirk Wazir ("Stories of the 40 Viziers")

Publication Date late 17th - early 18th century.

Subject Fiction

Type kitap

Language Turkish

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 4

Library MGIMO-UNIVERSITY RARE BOOK MUSEUM

Record ID t000258

Library Location MGIMO Rare Books

Date late 17th - early 18th century.

Notes Ottoman Empire, 18th century. (or even late 17th century), 19th century European brown leather binding. with gold embossing along the edges (on the spine and flyleaf - old number 56 of some library); defective (no beginning and no end). Black and red ink (headings), Naskh handwriting, close to Tevki (pronounced Ottoman), 21 lines per page, hafiz. There are 37 original sheets. European paper, thick, slightly yellowish (e.g. - bull's head). Traces of restoration: many sheets, including those with notes in the margins, have been trimmed (now the size of the original trimmed sheets is 18.1x13.5). At the beginning and at the end there are woven together (6 and 4 sheets, respectively) of another paper (all clean, only on sheet [6v.] there is an old cipher, and on sheet [38] there is an imprint of the seal of the National Bank of the IV People's Commissars of the RSFSR. L.1 (the original part) is an unreadable imprint of an oval seal. On sheet 22 there is an oval seal imprint with the Persian legend "Slave" God's Kadir-gali b. Yusuf 1238" (1822/1823).

Envanter numarası 258