The Vinland map and the Tartar relation / by R. A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston, George D. Painter for the Yale University Library ; With a foreword by Alexander O. Vietor.
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TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1965.Description: xii, 291 p. : illus., facsims., maps (part fold.) 30 cmContained works: - C. de Bridia, Brother, active 1247. Hystoria Tartarorum
- GA308.Z65 S54 1965
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The manuscript map and text were copied about 1440 by an unknown scribe from lost earlier originals. The first is a world map, including the Western Ocean, with representations of Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland; the second is an account, written in 1247 by an unidentified friar who called himself C. de Bridia, of Carpini's mission to the Mongols in 1245-47.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-269) and Includes index.
The manuscript: history and description, by T. E. Marston.--Facsimiles of the Vinland map and the Tartar relation.--The Tartar relation, edited, with introd., translation and commentary, by G. D. Painter.--The Vinland map, by R. A. Skelton.--The Tartar relation and the Vinland map: an interpretation, by G. D. Painter.--Bibliography (p. 263-269)
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