Sulwan Al-Muta' Of Ibn Zafar

A War Elephant And Riders

A larger image of a War Elephant and Riders from the Sulwan Al-Muta' of Ibn Zafar, Mamluk Egypt, c.1325-50 AD. Homaizi Collection, Kuwait.

Photograph 23. Illustration in a copy of the Sulwān al-Mutā’ fī ʿUdwān al-Atbāc by Muḥammad Ibn Abi Muḥammad Ibn Ẓafar, Mamlūk Egypt, probably early 14th century (Homaizi Collection, Kuwait).
p.229, "The Iconography of a Military Elite: Military Figures on an Early Thirteenth-Century Candlestick (Part II)" by David Nicolle, in Mamlūk Studies Review Vol. 19, 2016

The Frontispiece - Three Young Hunters, from the Sulwan Al-Muta' of Ibn Zafar
The story of the horse and the boar, from the Sulwan Al-Muta' of Ibn Zafar