The Vinland map and the Tartar relation / by R.A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston, and George D. Painter ; forward by Alexander O. Vietor.
TITLE:
The Vinland map and the Tartar relation / by R.A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston, and George D. Painter ; forward by Alexander O. Vietor.
Publication Date:
1995
Publication Information:
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press,
Edition:
Rev. ed.
Physical Description:
291 p. : ill., maps.
Additional Contributors:
Language:
English
ISBN:
03000065205
General Note:
Reprint of original text on the Vinland Map and an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols from 1245-1247.
The manuscript consists of a map and text 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 of the Carpini mission by an unidentified frier who calls himself C. de Bridia.
