The mysteries of the Marco Polo maps
By: Benjamin B. Olshin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780226149820
Subjects: Cartography; History
Description: Concerns a collection of maps and associated documents claimed to be from Marco Polo's time or that of his daughters (as many of the maps have the name or one or another of the three daughters on them). Discusses provenance, authenticity, and history of the documents, known to scholars as "the Marco Polo Maps" since 1948, here discussed fully for the first time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "Marco Polo" maps and the Polo family; title: Who was "Biaxio Sirdomap"?; title: To the distant east; title: The daughters' maps; title: Chronicles and histories; title: Maps of the new world; title: Conclusions and future directions; title: Appendix 1: an inventory of the documents; title: Appendix 2: a partial genealogy of the Rossi family; title: Appendix 3: a genealogy of the Polo family.