Qabus-nama

• The oldest copy, dated 1349, belongs to the library of Malik National Museum of IraninTehran.
• The Egyptian National Library and Archives keeps a copy in Old Anatolian Turkish, written during the reign of Süleyman of Germiyan.^[3]
• One of the earliest remaining copies of this work is one dating from 1450, translated into Turkish by Mercimek Ahmed on the orders of the Ottoman Sultan Murad II. It is kept in the Fatih LibraryofIstanbul.
• The British Museum keeps a copy of an early Turkish translation, dated 1456.
• Another copy, dated 1474, exists in the Bibliothèque nationale de FranceinParis (ms. Persan 138).
• An excellent copy is kept at the Leiden University library.

The Turkish version was then translated into GermanbyHeinrich Friedrich von DiezasBuch des Kabus in 1811, and a source of inspiration for Goethe's West-östlicher Diwan as he was in contact with von Diez.^{[citation needed]}

The text was translated directly from Persian into English by Reuben Levy with the title: A Mirror for Princes in 1951. French, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, and Georgian (1978) language translations also followed.^{[citation needed]}

This work is mentioned several times in Louis L'Amour's The Walking Drum as well as in Tariq Ali's "The Stone Woman".

• Persian Literature
• Mirrors for princes