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The Vinland map and the Tartar relation

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.
  • Vietor, Alexander O.
  • Yale University. Library.
Description
xii, 291 p. illus., facsims., maps (part fold.); 30 cm.
Summary
Facsimile of world map including Iceland, Greenland and Vinland, thought to have been compiled at Basle around 1440. Extensive comments and attempts at interpretation. History and description of manuscript.
Uniform Title
Vinland map.
Subject
  • C. de Bridia, Brother, active 1247
  • Giovanni, da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari, -1252
  • Giovanni, da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari, -1252
  • C. de Bridia, frère, époque 1247
  • Vinland map
  • Hystoria Tartarorum (C. de Bridia, Brother)
  • Vinland map
  • Early maps
  • Mongols > History > Sources
  • Mongol (Central Asian, culture or style)
  • Early maps
  • Mongols
  • Kaarten (geografie)
  • Tataren
  • Handschriften
  • Mongols > History > Sources
  • Carte ancienne
  • Mongol
  • Histoire
Genre/Form
  • Early maps
  • History
  • Sources
  • Early maps.
  • Cartes anciennes.
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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.
Contents
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)
LCCN
65022339
OCLC
  • ocm00711560
  • 711560
  • SCSB-311478
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library