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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![Kitáb and Sha.hr (literally “ Book ” and “ Town ”). A. S. Beveridge, Babur Natna in English I p. 83, and Schuyler, TurkeBan II, p. 64. 4 Page 207. When, however, in 1405 Timur died at Otrar his body was brought back to Samarqand and buried in the mosque now known as the Gúr Amir, where it refts under a huge block said to be of Jade. Schuyler, Turkettan I, p. 252. 5 Page 209. These three circlets forming a triangle appear on many of the silver pieces ftruck by Timur, see for instance Plate I, No. 36, and text p. 16 of Vol. VII of the Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum. Whether the emblem of the Lion and the Sun really was the armorial bearing of the former Sultan of Samarqand is uncertain. The Sun in the Sign of the Zodiac Leo, the highest sign, is found on the coins of the Seljuks of Rum (Asia Minor) as early as the 12th century and it reappears on the moneys issued by Gházán, Uljaytú and Abú Sah'd, the II Kháns of Persia, between 1295 and 1335. Yule, Marco Polo (1875), I, p. 343. tí Page 211. The Khan or Sultan of Samarqand here spoken of was probably the Amir Husayn, who ruled there from 1360 to 1369, and held sway both in Transoxiana and Khurásán. On the death of Chingiz, in 1227, his vaft dominions were divided between his four sons and Chagatay became Lord of Transoxiana with Bukhárá and Samarqand for capitals. A long succession of Chagatay Kháns, his descendants, ruled here for the next century and a half, temporarily often displaced by Kháns of minor local dynasties. Thus from 1342 to 1346 Kázán the Chagatay was Khan, and he was then displaced by Kazaqán a local chief whose grandson was Husayn Khan. His chief capital was Balkh, from which centre he controlled Samarqand to the north and Herat to the south. Husayn Khán gave his sifter in marriage to Timur in early days his ally, who afterwards quarrelled with him and as a result Husayn Khán was put to death in 1369 (Timur Bee I, pp. 1, 28, 192). For Omar Tabán mentioned below, see Price, Mohammedan Hiflory III, p. 491. 7 Page 213. Timur’s chief wife, the Great Khánúm, the mother of Sháh Rukh, was known also as Serai Mulk Mihrebán, having been a daughter of the Chagatay Khán Kázán (see previous note). She was found in and taken from the Harem of Husayn Khán at his defeat in 1369, and apparently had not been taken to wife by him. The confusion made by Clavijo may be due to the fa¿I as ftated that this Khán’s sifter had married Timur (see previous note). Timur Bee I, pp. 193, 290. 8 Page 213. See above, Chapter VII, note 10, p. 352. For Chawkú the father of Jahán Sháh see D. Price, Mahommedan Hiftory III, p. 404. 9 Page 213. The text has “que es llamada [for “llamado”] Dorgancho,” as though Dorgancho (which is in fail Chingiz) were (“ La Ciudad ”) the name of the town of his birth. The names](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0389.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
