Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTORY LIFE OF TIMOUR
- NARRATIVE OF RUY GONZALEZ DE CLAVIJO:—
- I Voyage from Cadiz to Constantinople
- II Constantinople
- III Voyage from Constantinople to Trebizond
- IV Trebizond, and the Journey through Armenia
- V The Journey through Azerbijan, Irak, and Khorassan
- VI Journey from the river Oxus to Samarcand, and festivities at the Court of Timour
- VII The City of Samarcand
- VIII Return of the Ambassadors
- Plate section
IV - Trebizond, and the Journey through Armenia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTORY LIFE OF TIMOUR
- NARRATIVE OF RUY GONZALEZ DE CLAVIJO:—
- I Voyage from Cadiz to Constantinople
- II Constantinople
- III Voyage from Constantinople to Trebizond
- IV Trebizond, and the Journey through Armenia
- V The Journey through Azerbijan, Irak, and Khorassan
- VI Journey from the river Oxus to Samarcand, and festivities at the Court of Timour
- VII The City of Samarcand
- VIII Return of the Ambassadors
- Plate section
Summary
On Saturday, the 12th of April, the Emperor of Trebizond sent for the ambassadors, and when they arrived at his palace, they found him in a saloon, which was in an upper story ; and he received them very well. After they had spoken with him, they returned to their lodging. With the emperor was his son, who was about twenty-five years of age ; and the emperor was tall and handsome. The emperor and his son were dressed in imperial robes. They wore, on their heads, tall hats surmounted by golden cords, on the top of which were cranes’ feathers ; and the hats were bound with the skins of martens. They call the emperor Germanoli, and his son Quelex ; and they call the son emperor as well as the father, because it is the custom to call the eldest legitimate son emperor, although his father may be alive; and the Greek name for emperor, is Basileus. This emperor pays tribute to Timour Beg, and to other Turks, who are his neighbours. He is married to a relation of the Emperor of Constantinople, and his son is married to the daughter of a knight of Constantinople, and has two little daughters.
On Sunday afternoon, the ambassadors being in their lodging, two knights came to see them, the most honored and confidential of the emperor's household. The first was named Horchi, which means the page who bears the bow before the emperor; and the other Protovestati, which means the same as treasurer.
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- Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy. González de Clavijo to the court of Timour, at Samarcand, A.D. 1403–6 , pp. 61 - 85Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1859