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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![to the right hand you could enter through a doorway into the porticoes already described, and on the left hand access was gained to a magnificent apartment richly beset, while in front at the end of this entrance gangway was the main body of the great Pavilion, v/ith walls wrought in embroideries of gold thread. The broad entrance gangway of which we have been speaking held in its centre an inner tent of considerable size, of the kind supported without guy-ropes [having numerous poles within the walls] and here it was that Timur was seated with his company drinking wine, and great was the noise of their feasting. It is to be underáfood that this great series of apartments with the porticoes adjacent was all of one conáfruífion adjoined together, and the walls were of that red tapeáfry which we have mentioned. And the work¬ manship throughout was so finely wrought and richly ornamented and perfect that to describe it duly in words is impossible, while to appreciate properly its great excellence it mu¿f have been seen with the eyes. After we had thus at leisure inspedfed all these pavilions and tents they led us on and next showed us a house which likewise ¿food in that Enclosure. It was entirely built of wood, very lofty and you go up to it by a ¿fair¬ way; and it is surrounded on all four sides by porticoes on platforms. The woodwork of this house is beauti¬ fully painted in gold and blue pattern: and it is so conáfru&ed that it can be taken down and set up again elsewhere when the need is to remove it, for it is indeed the Mosque in which Timur makes his devotions, and he carries it with him on his journeys and campaigns whithersoever he goes. That day we went on sight seeing and further they showed us a tent, of the kind ¿fayed by ropes, which were of green colour, and the tent walls without were covered with gray squirrel fur while inside it was lined with a more common fur called vair. In this](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0304.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
