Page of a manuscript (Saint-Petersburg)

Conserved in the 1930’s at the Asiatic Museum, Saint-Petersburg.

Scan from Saracenic Heraldry

Title page of a manuscript relating the history of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad’s expedition against Quṭlūshāh.

Inscription in the lower margin:

برسم الخزانة العالية السيّديّة المخدوميّة المظفّريّة موسى بن السلطان الشهيد الملك الصالح قدّس الله روحه

For the library of (His) High (Excellency), our Lord, the Master, the Well-Served, Muẓaffar al-dīn Mūsā, son of the late Sultan al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ, may God sanctify his soul.

Possible dating: before 718/1318

To Mūsā b. ‘Alī b. Qalāwūn’s page


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