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![[Flag of Delhi]](../images/i/in-dh14f.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 December 2007
The 84th flag mentioned and illustrated in the Book of All Kingdoms is attributed to Lini / Dilini / Delini, which is identified in the Halkyut Society edition as Delhi, India. This as depicted in the 2005 Spanish illustrated transcription, a white flag with a thin vertical yellow stripe (with visible black lining) in the ogival default shape of this source.
The anonymous author of
Book of All Kingdoms describes the flag
thus: "E las seńales d'este rey es un pendón de plata con un bastón de oro
tal." (="The device of the King is a white flag with a gold pale", as translated
in the Halkyut Society edition.) According to
the 1912 illustrated transcription in English, the Halkyut Society edition
(#74 on plate 16 between p.40-41), the manuscript "S" [f0fXXs] shows this flag
just like
Book of All Kingdoms.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 December 2007
![[Flag of Scim]](../images/i/in_q14r.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 December 2007
The Hakluyt text notes that this is a kingdom of hearsay, possibly Bengal,
Burma or even Siam.
Phil Nelson, 11 December 2007
The 89th flag mentioned and illustrated in the Book of All Kingdoms is attributed to Sçim (sic), which is identified in the Halkyut Society edition, page 48, note 3 as India Transgangetica, which matches Bengal, Burma or Siam. This as depicted in the 2005 Spanish illustrated transcription, a white flag with a red sun with black facial features, in the ogival default shape of this source.
The anonymous author of
Book of All Kingdoms describes the flag
thus: "E las seńales del rey de Scim son un pendón de plata e en medio la figura
del sol atal." (="The flag of the King of SCIM is white with a figure of the sun
in the centre", as translated in the Halkyut Society edition.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 December 2007
The sun could conceivably be a chakra instead - they were a heavily-used
symbol in the area.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 December 2007