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).
