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The Story of Adam, peace upon him, his Sons and Progeny, from a Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) of Rashid al-din, c. 1425. These two pages are from a manuscript that evidently was written and illustrated for the library (at Herat) of the Timurid king Shah Rukh, the son of Timur (Tamerlane). The Majma al-Tawarikh traced the history of the world, beginning with the prophets of the Old Testament until the reign of Shah Rukh.