Damascus: Armourer

Date: early fifteenth century

Ruy González de Clavijo (d. 1412) reports that these artisans were forcibly removed from the city by Timur (d. 1405).

Citation: De Clavijo, Ruy González, Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406, trans., Guy Le Strange. (London: Routledge, 1928), pp. 287-88.