Chapter I

Be it known to my victorious and fortunate Sons, to my noble and princely Grandsons and others, that,[11]

_Tūrky_.
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I have written my Memoirs in the _Tūrky_ language, in order that each and every one of my posterity, who, by the divine aid, and the protection of Muhammed, (upon whom and upon his descendants be the peace of God) shall ascend my Throne and succeed to my Sovereignty, which I obtained by much labour, toil, marches and wars, (having understood them) may put in practice those rules and regulations, by which their Sovereignty and Dominion may be preserved safe from ruin or decay.

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N. B. Here follow Books 2d and 3d, being the Institutes and Designs translated by Major Davy and edited by Professor White, 4to. edition, Oxford, A. D. 1783; and which also appear in the French edition of the Institutes, by Monsieur Langlès, Paris, A. D. 1787. In some of the MSS. that I have examined, the Memoirs precede the Institutes, but in Col. Davy’s copy they follow them.

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Footnote 11:

The following two lines are in the ancient Jagtay Tūrky, the words of
which are not to be found in Meninski’s Dictionary. The lines will be
found in Appendix No. 3.

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MEMOIRS OF TIMŪR.

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