Iran in the "Book of All Kingdoms" (original) (raw)

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Saldania

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Persia

[ [Flag of Persia] ](../images/i/ir%5F14f.gif)image by Ant�nio Martins-Tuv�lkin, 15 December 2007

The 92nd flag mentioned and illustrated in theBook 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 ofBook of All Kingdoms describes the flag thus: "E el emperador de Persia ha por se�ales un pend�n 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.
Ant�nio Martins-Tuv�lkin, 15 December 2007

Saldania

[ [Flag of Persia] ](../images/i/ir-so14f.gif)image by Eugene Ipavec, 12 December 2009

The 93rd flag mentioned and illustrated in theBook 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 ofBook of All Kingdoms describes the flag thus: "E el rey d�ella ha por se�ales un pend�n 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.)
Ant�nio Martins-Tuv�lkin, 15 December 2007