A compilation of three stories in Pre-Classical Chaghatay written in the post-Mongol or Timurid version of the Old Uyghur script. Originally penned for جلال الدین میر چاقماق Jalāl al-dīn Mīr Čaqmaq , the Timurid amir of Yazd under شاهرخ Šāhruḫ. All three stories are slightly defective, and the folios of many are out of order. — Multiple dates; Yazd, Iran

Title

A compilation of three stories in Pre-Classical Chaghatay written in the post-Mongol or Timurid version of the Old Uyghur script. Originally penned for جلال الدین میر چاقماق Jalāl al-dīn Mīr Čaqmaq , the Timurid amir of Yazd under شاهرخ Šāhruḫ. All three stories are slightly defective, and the folios of many are out of order. — Multiple dates; Yazd, Iran

Shelfmark

MS. Huntington 598

Place of origin

Yazd, Iran

Date

28th June 1435

Language

Chagatai

Contents

Form

codex

Physical extent

ff. 148

Hands

Script: Splendid cursive Uyghur characters. Scribe: Manṣūr Baḫšï -- baḫšïbeing an Old Uyghur and Mongol title which, in the Timurid context, seems primarily to have denoted a member of the class of Turkic- and Mongol-language scribes and functionaries.

Decoration

Illuminated frontispiece. This was likely prepared for an Arabic-script text as is stands at what would have been the top of the page had the manuscript not been written in the Uyghur script.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Provenance

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Subject

Romance fiction, Persian

Romance fiction, Arabic

Tales

Romance fiction, Turkish