The Vinland map and the Tartar relation
By: by R. A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston, and George D. Painter for the Yale University Library. With a foreword by Alexander O. Vietor.
Contributors: Marston, Thomas E.; Painter, George Duncan, 1914-; C. de Bridia, Brother, fl. 1247.; Yale University. Library.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: C. de Bridia, Brother, fl. 1247; Giovanni, da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari, d. 1252; Vinland map; Early maps; Mongols -- History -- Sources
Other titles: Vinland map.
Description: 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.
Notes: 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.
Table of contents: title: The manuscript: history and description, by T. E. Marston.; title: Facsimiles of the Vinland map and the Tartar relation.; title: The Tartar relation, edited, with introd., translation and commentary, by G. D. Painter.; title: The Vinland map, by R. A. Skelton.; title: The Tartar relation and the Vinland map: an interpretation, by G. D. Painter.; title: Bibliography (p. 263-269)