Timurid Arms and Armour : 1350-1400

For the latest video with Kings and Generals, here's a brief look at the weapons and armour of the early Timurids. Thanks to my friends Matt Capua, Frank Perrin and Marco Boldrini with their assistance in research. Thanks for my friend Tariq of Hikma History for his quick intro on Temur- check out his video on the old Amir here: /watch/8qZs5KNqj86qs DONATIONS Paypal: https://paypal.me/thejackmeister?loca ... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jackmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheJackmeister/ PRIMARY SOURCES Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour, at Samarcand, A.D. 1403-6. Translated by Clements R. Markham. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1859. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVkMAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=clavijo#v=onepage&q&f=true Clavijo, Embassy to Tamerlane: 1402-1406. Translated by Guy Le Strange. Routledge: London, 1928. Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, The History of Timur-Bec, Known by the Name of Tamerlain the Great, Emperor of the Moguls and Tartars: Being an historical Journal of his Conquests in Asia and Europe. Translated by J. Darby, 1723.https://archive.org/details/TheHistoryOfTimurBec_201409 (Vol I) SECONDARY SOURCES Ashrafyan, K.Z, “Central Asia under Timur from 1370 to the Early Fifteenth Century,” in History of Civilizations of Central Asia, vol 4 Part one: The Historical, Social and Economic Setting, edited by M.S. Asimov and C.E. Bosworth, 319-346. Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1998. https://books.google.com/books?id=18eABeokpjEC&pg=PA326&lpg=PA326&dq=temur+shamshirs&source=bl&ots=JF4UI8GR_P&sig=ACfU3U3wpfjPOfeLKogpKGiu1wUN77iHVA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwid5N22y-npAhXmFTQIHSadA_kQ6AEwAXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=temur%20shamshirs&f=false “The Timurids and the Turkmen,” The David Collection https://www.davidmus.dk/en/collections/islamic/dynasties/timurids-and-turkmen/art/34-2006 A number of useful pages by Ian Heath. I don't quite agree with all the analysis, but it links to a number of otherwise hard to access scans of manuscripts, with useful background detail, dates and sources of them. ILKHANID LIGHT CAVALRYMEN http://warfare.ga/WRG/Crusades-87-88-Ilkhanid_Light_Cavalry.htm PERSIAN CAVALRYMAN C. 1320 http://warfare.ga/WRG/Middle_Ages_2-23-Persian_Cavalryman-c1320.htm PERSIAN CAVALRYMEN C. 1335 http://warfare.ga/WRG/Middle_Ages_2-24-25-Persian_Cavalrymen-c1335.htm PERSIAN CAVALRYMEN C. 1430 http://warfare.ga/WRG/Middle_Ages_2-28-29-Persian_Cavalrymen-c1430.htm PERSIAN CAVALRYMAN, C. 1440 http://warfare.ga/WRG/Middle_Ages_2-30-Persian_Cavalryman-c1440.htm PERSIAN CAVALRYMAN, EARLY-15TH CENTURY http://warfare.ga/WRG/Middle_Ages_2-27-Persian_Cavalryman-early_15C.htm PERSIAN CAVALRYMAN, LATE 15TH CENTURY http://warfare.ga/WRG/Middle_Ages_2-31-Persian_Cavalryman-late_15C.htm PERSIAN MUSICIAN http://warfare.ga/WRG/Middle_Ages_2-33-Persian_Musician.htm OTTOMAN HEAVY CAVALRYMAN http://warfare.ga/WRG/Middle_Ages_2-9-Ottoman_Heavy_Cavalryman.htm LATE 15TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATION OF SOLDIERS OF THE TURKMEN STATES OF PERSIA OR ANATOLIA http://warfare.ga/Turk/Turkmen-Haz2152.htm ILLUSTRATIONS FROM JAMI ‘AL-TAWARIKH http://warfare.ga/Persia/14/Jami_al-Tawarikh-1305-14.htm?i=1 TIMURID SOLDIERS, PAGE 1 http://warfare.ga/Persia/Timurid/Timurid_Soldiers.htm Music is provided by Epidemic Sound. http://www.epidemicsound.com

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