Copy of manuscript related to Golden Horde history on display in Kazakhstan
The National Center of Manuscripts and Rare Books of Kazakhstan presented the copy of the valuable manuscript related to the history of Kazakhstan, discovered in France under the program Archieve-2025, Kazinform News Agency reports.
According to the press service of the Kazakh Culture and Information Ministry, the historic work ‘A selection of chronicles’ by Muin al-din Natanzi, kept at the National Library of Paris, was written in Shiraz in 1413.
The book, written in the Persian language in Arab scripts, covers 15 themes and consists of 15 chapters. The book has 413 pages.
In particular, the book provides a detailed description of the White Horde and a complete chronology of Khans. It also includes a valuable table with the names of the rulers of the White Horde, their fathers and mothers, as well as their burial places. The work covers the period of the collapse of the Golden Horde into the Blue and White Hordes. It also reveals that 10 White Horde rulers were buried in Syganak, the Kazakh Culture and Information Ministry said.
Muin al-din Natanzi was born in the second half of the 14th century in the village of Natanz, located near Isfahan, Iran. According to Dawlatshah Samarqandi’s Tadhkirat al-shu'ara ("Memorial of poets"), Muin al-din Natanzi resided in Shiraz in the early 15th century at Iskandar Sultan’s court (grandson of Amir Temur) as well as was a contemporary of Haydar Xorazmiy, Hofiz Xorazmi and others.
