The National Center of Manuscripts and Rare Books has published a copy of a valuable manuscript related to the history of Kazakhstan, which was found in France as part of the Archive 2025 program, El.kz reports citing qazalem.kz.
"Selected Chronicles" is a historical work by Muin ad Din Natanzi, stored in the National Library of France, was written in Shiraz in 816 AH/1413. That is, this work is typical of the 15th century. The book, written in Persian with Arabic script, is devoted to 15 topics consisting of 15 chapters. The book consists of 413 pages. In particular, the book provides a detailed description of the White Horde and contains a complete chronology of the reign of the khans. A valuable table with the names of the rulers of the White Horde, their fathers and mothers, as well as burial places is also presented.
The work describes the period of the collapse of the Golden Horde into the Blue and White Hordes. It is also reported that 10 rulers of the White Horde are buried in Syganak.
Muin ad-Din Natanzi was born in the second half of the 14th century in the village of Natanz, located near Isfahan (Iran). According to the work of Davlatshah Samarkandi "Tazkirat ash-shuaro" ("Biography of poets"), at the beginning of the 15th century Muin ad-Din Natanzi lived in Shiraz at the court of Mr. Iskander (grandson of Amir Temir), and was also a contemporary of such poets as Haydar Khorezmi, Hafiz Khorezmi, etc.