Research Catalog

Title

The Vinland map and the Tartar relation / by R.A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston, and George D. Painter for the Yale University Library. With a foreword by Alexander O. Vietor.

Author

Skelton, R. A. (Raleigh Ashlin), 1906-1970.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1965.

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Additional Authors

• Marston, Thomas E.
• Painter, George D. (George Duncan), 1914-2005.
• C. de Bridia, Brother, active 1247.
• Yale University. Library.

Description

xii, 291 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps (part folded); 30 cm

Alternative Title

Tartar relation.

Subjects

• Mongols > History > Sources
• Giovanni, da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari, -1252
• Early maps

Note

• 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.

Contents

The manuscript: history and description, by T. E. Marston.--Facsimiles of the Vinland map and the Tartar relation.--The Tartar relation, editied, 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)

LCCN

65022339

OCLC

ocm00711560

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries