5/ ...and have given her a ‘lotus flower diadem,’ which commonly adorns the heads of upper-class women in the art of the Seljūqs and their successor states before the Mongol conquest.

4/ The scene here depicts f.23/22a. The lady Gulšāh is disguised as a man, and in this scene with her lance kills her lover’s rival, Rabī‘ ibn ‘Adnān. Yet the artists still wished to mark it clear she was a woman...

3/ ...Baḥrī Mamlūks), designs that don’t show yet the influence of the advent of Mongols. Thus, even though the characters are in origin Arabic, and the poem written by a Persian, the visual culture we see here is one associated with the Seljūq Turks.

2/ ...in Konya in the Seljūq Sultanate of Rūm. With 71 illustrations, the MS (Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Hazine 841) was an expensive production, and an excellent resource for equipment and clothing of the late-Seljūqs (importance influence on the Ayyūbids, Khẉārezmšāhs and...

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Nonetheless, if you didn't know any better it would all sound convincing enough. It also made up podcast appearances I did and reviews of my work by Peter Jackson and others. All nonsense.

Just seeing this now, haven't been on Blue Sky for a few days. Not sure what to make of it but doubt it's a crossbow; see how the string runs in between the frame, which would not work well for any projectile. Unlikely to be a weapon, but not sure what it is

I put the guy on foot mostly because I didn't feel like drawing the horse.

It's expressed in a few accounts that Jurchen men preferred to wear white (see Jin Shi, juan 43), though I do not believe we have any clear artistic depictions of this in extant artwork from the Jin or Song Dynasties

Note the nice depictions of Jurchen bianfa 辮髮 hair styles

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