Excerpt from A Specimen of the Civil and Military Institutes of Timour, or Tamerlane: A Work Written Originally by That Celebrated Conqueror in the Mogul Language, and Since Translated Into Persian IT is further to be obferved, that in the Perfian there are to be found many Valuable Tranilations from the Tartarian, and other Oriental languages, highly worthy the attention of the Learned in Europe. The following Specimen, if I am not milled by the prejudices of a Tranfiator, will tend to eltablifh the above afl'ertion. The inefiimable work, from which it is taken, has not hitherto made its appearance in an European. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.