The Vinland map : and the Tartar relation / by R. A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston, and George D. Paint...
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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New Haven : Yale University Press, 1965.
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Date
1965.
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NQ910.09/1
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English
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xii, 291 p. : illus., facsims., maps (part fold.) ; 30 cm.
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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...
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 1965.
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Connecticut
Date Published
1965.
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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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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 i...
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NQ910.09/1
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74VvJAGo5GXl
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910.09
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991008212059702626
