An Ottoman Turkish scroll displaying the genealogies of major dynasties of the Islamic world before and after Islam, starting with the Biblical kings and prophets and the Old Persian kings and ending with the Ottoman Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān. — Probably completed during the reign of Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān , i.e. between 30 September 1520 and 6 September 1566; likely İstanbul
MS. Marsh 196
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
From Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World
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Title
An Ottoman Turkish scroll displaying the genealogies of major dynasties of the Islamic world before and after Islam, starting with the Biblical kings and prophets and the Old Persian kings and ending with the Ottoman Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān. — Probably completed during the reign of Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān , i.e. between 30 September 1520 and 6 September 1566; likely İstanbul
Shelfmark
MS. Marsh 196
Place of origin
likely İstanbul
Date
Probably completed during the reign of Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān , i.e. between 30 September 1520 and 6 September 1566
Language
Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)
Contents
Form
scroll
Hands
Script: Clear and careful naskh.
Acquisition
The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.
Provenance
The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.
Subject
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Mongols--Kings and rulers--Biography
Islamic Empire--Kings and rulers
Kings and rulers Genealogy
Genealogy
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Connections
People associated with this object
- Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān
- Nicholas Kontovas
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Marsh, Narcissus, 1638-1713
