Introduction: An Unknown Source for the History of the Kokand Khanate in the 19th Century

In the Fund of Manuscripts at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, there is a book in Chaghatay Turkic conventionally named in the card catalogue Ta'rikh-i 'Alimquli Amir-i lashkar (The History of Commander-in-Chief 'Alimquli). hereafter to be called TAL. Its inventory number is 12136 and its volume is 92 folios. It does not begin with Bismallah and the end has been lost.