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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![it to his father Mirán Sháh and to Prince Abu Bakr his brother. To them Prince Omar also wrote saying that they would now have the head of their enemy before them, adding that since his grandfather was now certainly dead, it was incumbent on them both to come and join their forces with his, when he Prince Omar with his nobles and grandees would give in allegiance to Mirán Sháh as Emperor in rightful succession to Timur. It was however told us later that when Mirán Sháh saw the head of Jahán Sháh [his cousin] thus sent him, he began to tremble fearing treachery on the part of his son Prince Omar, and he sought to avoid this meeting which had been arranged to take place in the Plains of Vian at no great distance outside Tabriz. Now in regard to the events, as afterwards reported to us, that were at this time happening in the city of Samarqand, no sooner was Timur dead and he had died [at Otrar beyond the Jaxartes, as already said]7 than the great lords and his chamberlains did their utmoál to keep the faéf unknown till they could send a guard for safety on the great treasure [in the caáfle of Samarqand] and take the álate in charge. It however was found impossible to keep the secret, and very soon all men knew, from the servants in atten¬ dance, that Timur indeed was dead. At the time of his death there was present in the capital his grandson Prince Khalil Sultán, again a son of Mirán Sháh, and he as soon as he received the news [from Otrar] of his grandfather’s death, assembling all his men and summoning the nobles of his party, fell on those three privy chamberlains of Timur [already spoken of in a previous chapter who now returning from Otrar had already taken into their charge the household anc. the treasury of his late Highness. Of these three grand chamberlains, one they forthwith slew, and he was by name Butudo, being a son of Jahán Sháh whom 3*5](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0347.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
