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image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2007
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image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2007
The 92nd flag mentioned and illustrated in the Book of All Kingdoms is attributed to Persia. This as depicted in the 2005 Spanish illustrated transcription, a yellow flag with a large red square on the middle in the ogival default shape of this source.
The anonymous author of
Book of All Kingdoms describes the flag
thus: "E el emperador de Persia ha por señales un pendón de oro e en medio una
cuadra bermeja tal." (= "The Emperor of Persia has for his device a yellow flag
with a red square in the middle", as translated in the Halkyut Society edition.) According to
the 1912 illustrated transcription in English, the Halkyut Society edition
(#80 on plate 17 between p.40-41), the manuscript "S" [f0fXXs] shows this flag
just like the
2005 Spanish illustrated transcription.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2007
Possibly this was the flag of the Jalayirid dynasty which ruled various parts
of Mesopotamia, and western Persia from 1336 to 1432. A webpage at
http://www.fanaticus.org/DBA/armies/IV67/index.html shows a miniature of a
Jalayirid soldier carrying a yellow flag with a red device (possibly a square).
The flags of Iran/Persia webpage I recently mentioned on this list uses the same
image of the soldier to illustrate the flag of the Jalayirid Sultanate.
See:
http://www.geocities.com/rooyintan/Flags_Persia.html
http://www.geocities.com/rooyintan/persia/Jalayirid_ghulam_soldier.jpg
and for a map of Jalayird territory see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalayirids.
Of course the identity of this flag with the Jalayirids is only as good as
whatever research was done by the producers of the miniature soldier.
Ned Smith, 15 December 2007
![[Flag of Persia]](../images/i/ir-so14f.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 12 December 2009
The 93rd flag mentioned and illustrated in the Book of All Kingdoms is attributed to "the kingdom of Saldania, a noble and rich city" - probably current Soltaniyeh, in Iran. This as depicted in the 2005 Spanish illustrated transcription, a yellow flag with a large red square on the middle in the ogival default shape of this source. This is identical to the 92nd flag, Persia, as the city was located in, and subjected to, the Persian Empire.
The anonymous author of
Book of All Kingdoms describes the flag
thus: "E el rey d’ella ha por señales un pendón de oro e en medio una cuadra
bermeja tal." (= "Its King has for his device a yellow flag with a red square",
as translated in the Halkyut Society edition.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2007
