تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.28.5

13.28.5

Then the chamberlain came out and summoned us. Khudhāwandzāda Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn, the eldest of the brothers mentioned, went in, and the sultan made him amīr dād, who is one of the great amīrs: he sits in the seat of the qāḍī, and whoever has a claim against an amīr or a great man, [the amīr dād] brings him before him. He fixed his salary for this office at fifty thousand dinars a year, assigned him villages whose revenue amounted to that sum, ordered fifty thousand to be given him in cash, and bestowed on him a robe of honour of embroidered silk called ṣūrat al-shīr, meaning 'the figure of the lion', because on its front and back there is the figure of a lion; and inside the robe a label is sewn stating the amount of gold embroidered into it. He also ordered him a horse of the first breed — horses with them are of four breeds — and their saddles are like the saddles of the people of Egypt, and they cover the greater part of them with gilded silver.