The Vinland map : and the Tartar relation /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
1965.
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| Item Description: | 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 |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 291 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps (part folded) ; 30 cm |