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Timur

The founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405)

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  • Timur (Tamerlane, Tamburlaine). Gouache painting.

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    Institutes political and military , Written originally in the Mogul language, by the Great Timour, improperly called Tamerlane; first tramslated into Persian by Abu Taulib Alhusseini; and thence into English, with marginal Notes, By Major Davy, Persian secretary to the Commander In Chief of the Bengal Forces from the year M DCC LXX TO M DCC LXXIII. And now Persian Secr. to the Governor General of Bengal. The original Persian transcribed from a MS. in the possession of Dr. William Hunter, physician extraordinary to the Queen, F.R. & A.S. and of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris; and the whole work published with a preface, indexes, geographical notes, &c. &c. By Joseph White, B.D. fellow of Wadham College, and Laudian professor of Arabic in the University of Oxford.

    Timur | Date: [1783]

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