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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

Nine emperors of the Jin dynasty



Source: "Some Miniatures of the Jami' al-Tavarikh in Istanbul, Topkapi Museum, Hazine Library No. 1654" by Guner Inal in Ars orientalis V (1954)

Folio 17a (257a of the reconstructed manuscript) is 'Twelve emperors of the Song dynasty', so this should be either folio 16b (256b of the reconstructed manuscript) 'Nine emperors of the Tang dynasty' or folio 17b (257b of the reconstructed manuscript) 'Nine emperors of the Jin dynasty'.

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