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.

Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, 1965.

Descriptionxii, 291 p. : ill., facsims., maps (part fold.) ; 30 cm.

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.

Note: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 Note:Includes bibliography ((p. 263-269) and index.

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