TRADITIONS AND CEREMONIES IN LATE MEDIEVAL BUKHARA

Аннотация

The manuscript fund of the Bukhara Museum-Preserve has a collection of about 6 thousand documents. The author of the article demonstrates the capabilities of the collection as an information source, using two handwritten documents as an example. They are united by a detailed description of customs, recommendations, rules of palace etiquette and ceremonial for holding festivities (in this case, Navruz) adopted in late medieval Bukhara for rulers, nobles and ordinary people. A study of the above-mentioned documents will allow researchers to obtain additional material on the history and ethnography of late medieval Central Asia.