AN OTTOMAN GENEALOGICAL SCROLL (SILSILENAME), TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on cream paper, scroll with 23 pasted sheets. About the world history starting from Adam, Prophets and kings that ruled in the Middle East. The names are written in circles depending on the importance with additional notes written in Ottoman Turkish around the names. Starting from the time of Adam, it lists the descendants of biblical figures and their contemporaries in the Eastern world, such as the Sasanian kings of Persia. It continues with Muhammad and the early caliphs through to the twelve major Islamic dynasties, including the Ottomans. 14th sheets start the genealogy of the founder of the Qadiriyya order Abdulkadir Geylani and his Sufi genealogy. Hereafter also starts the House of Osman The last 3 sheets with a different writing style and most circles are empty, so we can assume that these are later additions at the beginning of the 19th century. There is a date at the end containing the year 1223 AH/1808 AD short after the crowning of Sultan Mahmud II.
1062 by 29.5 cm