Qadir Ali Beg's Compendium of Chronicles in Tatar
The earliest surviving history written in Volga Tatar, made at the Kasimov court in 1602.
Full title Compendium of Chronicles: Tatar (Nogay-Turkic) translation of parts of Rashid al-Din with an original continuation on the Jochid khans (Urus Khan, Toqtamish, Edigu, Kazan and Kasimov rulers) dedicated to Uraz Muhammad Khan of Kasimov, 1602; manuscript copy dated 20 March 1842
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Qadir Ali Beg Jalayir (fl. 1602), of the Kasimov court
Qadir Ali Beg Jalayir, of the court of Uraz Muhammad Khan at Kasimov, made a Tatar (Nogay-Turkic) version of parts of Rashid al-Din's history in 1602. He added his own continuation on the Jochid houses: Urus Khan, Toqtamish, Edigu and the rulers of Kazan and Kasimov. About two thirds is translation. The atlas does not hold the text: the corpus knows a copy dated 1842 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France only through Gallica catalogue records, and Berezin's 1854 Kazan print was not found online.
- How they knew
- Compiled from others
- Who “Tartar” means here
- The author writes in Tatar (Nogay-Turkic), and his subjects are the Tatar khanates that followed the Golden Horde: Kazan, Kasimov and the Nogays.
- Why read it
- The native record of the post-Horde khanates that Muscovy absorbed, in the earliest surviving Volga Tatar history.
- Watch out
- The 1842 date is the date of the copy, not of writing, and two thirds of the text translates Rashid al-Din. The atlas quotes nothing from this work.
What it says
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The fine print
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
compilation (translation of Rashid al-Din) plus original dastans on the fifteenth-sixteenth-century Jochid houses from Nogay and Kazakh oral tradition and the author's own experience at Kasimov
Research notes
- Two-thirds is a translation of Rashid al-Din; the 1842 date is the copy date, not the composition. Catalogue language code 'nog' reflects the BnF cataloguer's identification as Nogay Tatar.
- Berezin's 1854 edition and the Kazan 1851 lithograph (Sbornik letopisei, tatarskii tekst) are the printed leads; try rusneb.ru or Kazan Federal University digital library from another environment.
Why it matters
The earliest surviving historical work in Volga Tatar, the native record of the post-Horde khanates (Kazan, Kasimov, Nogays) that Muscovy absorbed; the text behind Berezin's Kazan 1854 print (Sbornik letopisei, Biblioteka vostochnykh istorikov II, 1), which was not found online.
Places named
Kazan; Kasimov; Nogay steppe; Kazakh steppe; Volga
Peoples named
Jochids; Kazan khanate; Kasimov khanate; Nogay Horde; Kazakh khans (Uraz Muhammad); Muscovy