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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68jqNK5sZq8

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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

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