The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relations

by Skelton, R. A., Marston, Thomas E., And Painter, George D

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New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press Foreward by Alexander O. Vietor, Curator of Maps at Yale University. CR 1965, fourth in April 1966. 290 pages with 3 pages of index and a general index. Sections on: Proper Names in the Latin Text of the Tartar Relation, and Mongol and Other Non-Latin Words in the Tartar Relation (Text and Commentary). 19 plates of full-page facsimile maps and charts, manuscript and 5 figures of other maps. Large book, orange covers, all very good condition. The documents in this book are concerned with the Norse Voyages from Iceland and Greenland to North America in the 10th to 12th centuries; and the expedition of Friar John de Plano Carpine across Central Asia on a mission to the Mongols in 1245-1247.. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover.