Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406 / translated from the Spanish by Guy Le Strange with an introduction.
- Ruy González de Clavijo
- Date:
- [1928]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406 / translated from the Spanish by Guy Le Strange with an introduction. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![face for seven years pa¿l. This young prince was the son of Timur's eldest son who had died many years since, whose name had been Jahángír. Timur had loved his son Jahángír very dearly and he now loved this grandson likewise for his father’s sake: and the name of the young prince was Pir Muhammad. To his presence we were now taken and we found him in a tent of red tapeálry seated on a low dais, round and about which many lords and a great number of folk were ¿landing in attendance on him. As we approached outside the tent two of the lords in waiting came out to us, and taking us under the arms they made us kneel on the ground, and then getting up we advanced a few ¿teps, when we again knelt: and on this we were ushered into the tent. We here made the cuálomary reverence, which was to put the right knee to the ground crossing at the same time our arms over the brea¿l, and bowing with the head. All this we duly performed and ¿lood, when after an interval those lords who had brought us in carried us forth, taking us back to where we had before been seated under the awning. This young prince was as we noticed very sumptuously attired as is the Tartar cu¿lom, he was wearing a robe of blue [Chinese] Zaytuni silk embroidered in gold circles, like small wheels, which back and front covered his che¿l and shoulders and passed down the material of the sleeves. On his head he wore a hat garnished with many great pearls and precious ¿Iones, and on the top was displayed a fine clear balas ruby. The people whom we found in attendance on him all paid him the utmo¿l deference. While we were there the Prince was being entertained with the display of two men who were wre¿lling. These wre¿llers were dressed each in a leathern garment like a sleeveless jerkin, and at first ¿Iruggling together it seemed as though neither could overcome the other. It was commanded them however to have done, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0286.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
