Zubdat al-Tawarikh (TIEM 1973)

The Zubdat al-Tawarikh ('Cream of Histories') is an Ottoman genealogy written in Turkish nashki script by calligrapher Sayyid Loqman Aşuri and illuminated throughout with miniatures by painters al-Sayyid Lutfi, Molla Kasım (Mulla Qasim) and Ustad Osman and their workshop, in 1583, for Sultan Murad III.^[1] The manuscript is in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul (TIEM 1973).^[2]