Due to the great interest of Iskandar Sultan (Timur's grandson) in illustrating books, especially astronomical ones, relatively many works have been remained since his time. One of them is the book of Birth of Iskandar (Kitab-i Viladat-i Iskandar) written in 813 A.H A.D 1410 and was presented to him.This book, which is now held at the Wellcome Institute in London, consists of three parts: The first part deals with the astrological calculations of the moment of the king’s birth and the extraction of his horoscope, which ends with a two-page painting. The second part includes the prophecy of the coming years until a few decades after his birth, and the third part explains Sultan's horoscope. The drawing is in fact an illustrated summary of the first and third parts of the book. The symbol of the twelve constellations and the position of the planets in these constellations at the time of Iskandar Sultan's Birth are related to the first part and the inscriptions written in the sectors of the circles in the middle of the image are related to the third part of the book. Moreover, the large outer circle includes Iskandar's horoscope based on the latitude of each zodiac sign at the moment of his birth. The present article has presented an overview of the illustrated symbols and investigated the details of astrology as well as the inscriptions in the image.
Mozghan Esmaeilyfa (Sat,) studied this question.