The Genealogy of the Copies of “A Brief History of the Crimean Khans”
Journal: The World of the Orient
Year: 2024

The paper presents the results of the study of the genealogy of the copies of a small work on the history of the Crimean Khanate, known under the conventional title “A Brief History of the Crimean Khans”. Based on a comparative study of the Kyiv and Berlin manuscripts, the important data on the history of the text of the work were obtained. In particular, the probable time of its creation (1730–1736) and the time when it was copied into the Berlin copy of the Abu-l-Ghazi’s work (around 1737) wer