"رحلات السيد بيترو ديلا فالي، وهو نبيل روماني، إلى الهند الشرقية وصحراء الجزيرة العربية. وفيها يصف بدقة البلدان المختلفة، وكذلك العادات، الأعراف، التجارة، الطقوس الدينية والمدنية، لهؤلاء الأمراء وتلك الأمم الشرقية: في رسائل وديّة إلى صديقه السيد ماريو سكيبانو. وتم إضافة سرد عن رحلة السير توماس رو إلى جزر الهند الشرقية" [‎٤‎٤‎٧] (٥٠٨/٤٦٨)

A Voyage to EAST-INDIA, &c. 447
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or elfe by an unhappy fall from his Horfe, which made him
halt to his Grave, was ever after that called timur hng^ or
Uninr the lame^ from whence he is corruptly in our Stories
named Tamberlane. The late Mogol, at whofe Court we
lived 3 was the ninth in a dired: line, from that his great
Anceftor. c ! ' • ^
And now that my Reader may fee the Great Mogol in a Por
traiture (which was taken from a Pidure of his drawn to the
life ) I have caufedthatto be here inferred 3 whick^refents him
in his daily unvaried Habit., as he Js bedeckt 3 and adorned
with Jewels, he continually Wears, for the faftiion of the Ha
bit, in which he is here prefented, it is, for the fafhion, the Ha
bit of that whole vaft Empire^ fo that he who ftriftly views
this,-may fee the drefi of the Men throughout that whole great
Monarchy. v i
After this I havefetup the Royal Standard of the Great iWb~
gpl 9 which is a couchah t Lyon fhadowing part of the Body of
the Sun.
And after that, I have caufed his Imperial Signet, or Great
Seal to be laid down before my Reader's Eyes 5 where in nine
rounds, or Circles, are the Names and Titles of Tamberlane^
. and his lineal fucceffors in Perfian words: which I ftiall mak^
frefently to fpeak Englifti, and ( as I conceive ) no more in
Englifti, than what is fully expreffed in thofe original words*
This Seal ( as it is here made in Perfian wordsj the Great
JMogol^ either in a large, or leffer figure caufeth to be put unto
zW FirtnanneS) or Letters Patents ^ the prefent Rings Title put
in the middle, and larger Circle that is furrounded with the
reft, the impreffion whereof is not made in any kind ot Wax,
but Ink, the Seal put in the middle of the Paper, and the wri*
ting about it, which Paper there is made very large, and fmoothj
and good, and in divers colours, befides white, and all to write
on. And the words on the Mogel's Seal being imbofs'd, are put
upon both fides of his Silver and Gold Coin, ( for there is no
Image upon any of it.) And the like little Signets, or Seals
are uftdby the great Men of that Country 5 and fo by others
of inferiour rank, having their Names at length engraven on
them, with which they make impreffions, or fubferiptions by
by Ink put on them , to all their afts and deeds, which round
Circle is their Hand and Seal too. n .
For timur lang^ or Tamberlane 5 he was famous about the year
of Chrifl: 1398. in the laft year of the Reign of Richard the
Second, King of England. And he the fir ft of the Race of
thofe great Monarchy hath a Title, which fpeaks thus:
1. Awir^ timur^ Saheb Ceran^ that is, the great Conqueror, or
Emperor 5 Timur^ or Tamberlain^ Lord pojfejjor of the Corner
or of the four Corners of the World.
2. The (econd his Son was calhd Mirath-Sha, the King and
Inheritor of Conqnejis, or the Inheritor of his Fathers CouqueftSo
J * J ' ^ Tha