Add MS 11725

A codex of three texts relating to the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan:

1v-70r : Qiṣṣa-’i Chingnīz Khān (sic), a legendary account of the history of Genghis Khan. This version of the text presents significant divergences with the text that was published in Kazan in 1819, particularly with respect to verbal variations and dialectal forms. In the introduction, the descendance of Genghis is traced down to Uzbek Khan, and from the latter, proceeding from father to son, as follows: Janbek Khan; Berdibek Khan, Shebaq Khan, Murteza Khan, Kuchum Khan, Ali Khan, Arslan Khan, and Burhan Sultan. It is said, in the text, that the last individual fell into the hands of the Russians and became a renegade. Arslan Khan and his son Burhan Khan figure in the list of the khans of Kasimov. The latter is said to have converted to Christianity in 1653 CE and to have died in 1679 CE;

70v-75v : [Shajara-’i Turk], excerpts from Shajara-’i Turk, also known as Shajarat al-Atrāk, a work on Turkic genealogy by the Uzbek ruler of Khiva and historian Ebu'l-Ghazi Bahadur Khan (died circa 1075 AH (1665 CE)). They relate to the dates of birth, accession and death of Genghis Khan, and to the genealogy of Ebu'l-Ghazi Khan (died 1074 AH/1663-64 CE);

76r-134r : [Tārīkh], an untitled and anonymous history of Genghis Khan without author's name or preface. The contents of the history are: genealogy of Genghis Khan traced up to Budenjer, his ancestor of the 8th degree (f 76r); his sons, daughters and wives (f 77r); his birth and early life (f 88v); his history, told year by year, from the year of the hare, corresponding to 591 AH (1195 CE), when he reached his 41st year, to his death (f 93r). His dying exhortation to his sons is found on f 131v. The death of Genghis, which had been kept some time secret, was divulged, it is said on f 131r, on 14 Ramazan 624 AH (28 August 1227 CE). In this text, the years of the Turkic cycle are designated by peculiar names, most of which differ altogether from the usual names of the animals, which might be taken from Tungusic, Chinese, or Mongolic languages in Central Asia: Kulkuna Yil (Year of the Rat); Hogar Yil (Year of the Ox); Baris Yil (Year of the Tiger); Tuli Yil (Year of the Hare); Lu Yil (Year of the Crocodile); Mogay Yil (Year of the Snake); Muryin Yil (Year of the Horse); Konin Yil (Year of the Sheep); Bichin Yil (Year of the Monkey); Takiku Yil (Year of the Hen); Nukay Yil (Year of the Dog); Kakay Yil (Year of the Hog).

This manuscript was copied in Central Asia in the early 13th century AH (19th century CE).