Tiesenhausen's collection of sources on the Golden Horde
The standard anthology of Arabic and Persian extracts on the Golden Horde, 1884 and 1941.
Full title Collection of Materials relating to the History of the Golden Horde: vol. I extracts from Arabic authors (St Petersburg 1884, Arabic texts with Russian translation); vol. II extracts from Persian authors (Moscow-Leningrad 1941)
Сборник материалов, относящихся к истории Золотой Орды
Vladimir Tiesenhausen (compiler)
Vladimir Tiesenhausen's collection gathers extracts from twenty-four Arabic authors (volume I, St Petersburg 1884, Arabic texts with Russian translation) and from Persian authors (volume II, Moscow and Leningrad 1941). They describe the Golden Horde from Batu to Toqtamish and Edigu. Writers include Ibn al-Athir, Nuwayri, Ibn Battuta, Ibn Khaldun, Juvaini and Rashid al-Din, and it prints Mamluk-Jochid letters. The atlas does not hold the text: the card lists only web transcriptions of the Russian translations, and the printed volumes were not found scanned.
- How they knew
- Compiled from others
- Who “Tartar” means here
- The subject is the Golden Horde, the state the card links to Tartaria on European maps. The names its extracts use for the Horde's people vary by author and are not recorded here.
- Why read it
- The standard route by which Arabic and Persian testimony on the Golden Horde has been read since 1884.
- Watch out
- These are extracts, not full texts, and Tiesenhausen's readings predate modern editions. The atlas quotes nothing from this work.
What it says
No quotes from this one yet. Its text is out of reach for now, or the scan could not be read.
The fine print
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
scholarly anthology of extracts from twenty-four Arabic authors (Ibn al-Athir, Ibn Abd al-Zahir, Nuwayri, Umari, Ibn Battuta, Ibn Khaldun, Maqrizi, Ibn Arabshah and others) and Persian authors (Juvaini, Rashid al-Din and continuator, Vassaf, Natanzi, Shami, Yazdi, Samarqandi and others)
Research notes
- Extracts, not full texts; Tiesenhausen's readings predate modern editions. The printed volumes (with original-language texts) were not found scanned; vol. I (1884) should exist on Russian repositories not reachable from here (nlr.ru, rusneb.ru).
- Further copies: vostlit.info/Texts/rus/Athir/index.phtml?id=530
Why it matters
The standard collection through which the Arabic and Persian testimony on the Golden Horde (the polity behind 'Tartaria' on European maps) has been read since 1884; vol. I also prints the Mamluk-Jochid diplomatic correspondence from Ibn Abd al-Zahir, Nuwayri and Maqrizi.
Places named
Qipchaq steppe; Volga; Crimea; Khorezm; Caucasus; Egypt (Mamluk correspondence)
Peoples named
Golden Horde (Batu to Toqtamish and Edigu); Mamluks; Ilkhanids; Timurids; Chaghadaids; Rus principalities