AN OTTOMAN GENEALOGICAL SCROLL (SILSILENAME) PREPARED IN THE YEAR OF THE CORONATION OF SULTAN ABDÜLMECID I (R. 1839-61)

OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1255/1839-40 AD

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AN OTTOMAN GENEALOGICAL SCROLL (SILSILENAME) PREPARED IN THE YEAR OF THE CORONATION OF SULTAN ABDÜLMECID I (R. 1839-61)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1255/1839-40 AD
Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, with roundels outlined in gold containing names and titles of historical figures in red diwani linked together by red lines, the scroll starts with Adam and finishes with the Ottoman Sultan Abülmecid I, the roundels surrounded by notes in black diwani, the margins with red rules, dated in the lower left hand corner
316½ x 11in. (804 x 27.8cm.)

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This silsilename begins with Adam and ends with the reign of Sultan Abülmecid I. It includes the ancient Iranian and Turkish Kings, the pre-Islamic Arabs and Prophets, Iskandar Muhammad as well as his ancestors and descendants, the 12 Shi'a imams, the Umayyads, Abbasids, Buyids, Samanids, Ghaznavids, Seljuks, Khwarazmshahis, the Chingizids and the Ottomans.

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