Timur defends mountain position / Persian miniature 1486

Timur, (Timur Lenk, Timur-i-Long, Tamerlan); Asian conqueror of Turco-Mongol descent; founder of the Timurid dynasty in Persia and Transoxiana; Kesh (Chagatai Khanate) 8.4.1336 - Otrar near Shymkent 19.1.1405. Timur (in green on a black horse) attacks the position of Amir Husayn at Tang-i Haram. Detail. Persian miniature, 1486. Illustration from the Zafarnama (Book of Victory / History of Timur) by the Persian historian Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi (died 1454). Gouache on paper. Gouache on paper. Ms. 1964. Istanbul, Museum of Turkish Art.

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