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Pursuit Scene from the Battle of Badr
Jami‛ al-Tawarikh by Rashid al-Din.

Universal History
or Compendium of Chronicles
Ğāmi‛ al-tavārīḫ. Rašīd al-Dīn Fazl-ullāh Hamadānī

Topkapi Sarai Museum, Ms Hazine 1653


Pursuit Scene from the Battle of Badr
Jami' al-Tawarikh ('Universal History' of Rashid al-din).
Rashidiyya, 1314.
Hazine 1653, folio 165b
Source: Secular illustrations and Persian Painting



Referenced as figure 115 in: M. GORELIK, "Oriental Armour of the Near and Middle East from the Eighth to the Fifteenth Centuries as Shown in Works of Art", in: Islamic Arms and Armour, ed. ROBERT ELGOOD, London 1979

From the same manuscript: Mohammed b. Al-Mahdi Crosses the Nile, ‘Jami' al-Tawarikh’ by Rashid al-Din. Topkapi Sarai Museum, Ms Hazine 1653, f.347a



See also the Jami‛ al-Tawarikh of 1305-14 by Rashid al-Din. Edinburgh manuscript Or 20 and Khalili manuscript 727
Other Illustrations of Ilkhanid Mongols and Successors in 14th Century Persia and surrounds





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