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Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, M V 5 : Nasabnāma

Title	Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, M V 5 : Nasabnāma
Publication Date:	1467
Type	Other
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Library:	University of Iowa Libraries
Record ID	TN_cdi_manuscriptorium_primary_ECODIC_CHUBB_M_V_5_3YVOKJB_en
Date	1467
Notes	This Persian-Arabic manuscript, written in Herat by ʿAbdallāh al-Harawī and completed Middle of Šaʿbān 871 h. [= end of March 1467], contains genealogical information about the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants, as well as about people important to the subsequent history of the eastern part of the Islamic world and of Central Asia, among them the Khan of Moghulistan, Tughluq Timur († 1363). Sayyid Ǧalāladdīn Mazīd Bahādur is named as the person who commissioned the manuscript; he probably was part of the local upper class. Interspersed in the text are quotations from the Koran, prayers and poems; an appendix gives exact death dates for three people who passed away in the year 869 h. and who may have been part of the circle of the man who commissioned the manuscript. The decoration of the manuscript is incomplete, as can be seen from an only partially completed rosette (3r) and a missing family tree (26v). The manuscript was owned by Rudolf Tschudi (1884-1960).

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Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, M V 5 : Nasabnāma

Publication Date 1467

Type Other

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Library University of Iowa Libraries

Record ID TN_cdi_manuscriptorium_primary_ECODIC_CHUBB_M_V_5_3YVOKJB_en

Date 1467

Notes This Persian-Arabic manuscript, written in Herat by ʿAbdallāh al-Harawī and completed Middle of Šaʿbān 871 h. [= end of March 1467], contains genealogical information about the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants, as well as about people important to the subsequent history of the eastern part of the Islamic world and of Central Asia, among them the Khan of Moghulistan, Tughluq Timur († 1363). Sayyid Ǧalāladdīn Mazīd Bahādur is named as the person who commissioned the manuscript; he probably was part of the local upper class. Interspersed in the text are quotations from the Koran, prayers and poems; an appendix gives exact death dates for three people who passed away in the year 869 h. and who may have been part of the circle of the man who commissioned the manuscript. The decoration of the manuscript is incomplete, as can be seen from an only partially completed rosette (3r) and a missing family tree (26v). The manuscript was owned by Rudolf Tschudi (1884-1960).