Shop Amazon - Create an Amazon Baby Registry


Create an Amazon Business Account



An illustration in the 1305-14
Jami‛ al-Tawarikh
by Rashid al-Din.

Universal History

or Compendium of Chronicles

Ğāmi‛ al-tavārīḫ. Rašīd al-Dīn Fazl-ullāh Hamadānī

Besieged defenders of Mashhad al-Dai advancing to battle


Figure 39 in: M. GORELIK, "Oriental Armour of the Near and Middle East from the Eighth to the Fifteenth Centuries as Shown in Works of Art", in: Islamic Arms and Armour, ed. ROBERT ELGOOD, London 1979
Jāmi‛ al-Tawārikh by Rashīd al-Dīn , Tabriz, c.1314 (Edinburgh University Library, Royal Asiatic Society, Morley. fol. 58b).
Il-Khanid: Tabriz
Edinburgh University Library, MS. Or. 20, fol. 125v

Back to the smaller image of Besieged defenders of Mashhad al-Dai advancing to battle, Jami' al-Tawarikh by Rashid al-Din, 1305-14