| Author | Skelton, R. A. (Raleigh Ashlin), 1906-1970.
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| 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.
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| Published | New Haven, Yale University Press, 1965.
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| Description | xii, 291 p. illus., facsims., maps (part fold.) 30 cm.
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| General 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.
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| Formatted Note | 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)
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| Subjects | Early maps.
Giovanni, da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari, d. 1252
Mongols -- History -- Sources.
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| Other Authors | Marston, Thomas E.
Painter, George Duncan, 1914-
C. de Bridia, Brother, fl. 1247
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| Organizations | Yale University. Library.
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| Related Titles | Tartar relation.
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| LC Card Number | 65-22339 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: GA 308 Z65 S6
mq155217: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 92030] |
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