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catalog abstract "The Vinland Map, dated to about A.D. 1440 - at least fifty years before Columbus landed in the Americas - is a unique map of the world that shows an outline of the northeast American coast and a legend describing its discovery in about 1000 by Leif Eiriksson, the Norseman from Greenland. The map was published by Yale University Press in 1965 and generated an enormous amount of debate. Chemical analysis of the ink later suggested that the map might be a forgery, but recent appraisals of both scientific and humanist evidence argue that it is indeed authentic. Now, on the thirtieth anniversary of its original publication, here is this classic of historical cartography in a new edition. It reprints unaltered the original text on the Vinland Map and an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols from 1245 to 1247 (the Tartar Relation), with which the map had at some stage been bound. To this have been added a new introduction by George D. Painter, sole survivor of the original team of editors, who discusses the verification of the map's authenticity; a new essay by Wilcomb E. Washburn, director of the Smithsonian's American Studies Program, on the map's provenance and scientific testing; and a new discussion of the map's compositional and structural aspects by Thomas A. Cahill and Bruce H. Kusko, of the Crocker Historical and Archaeological Projects at the University of California, Davis. There is also an account by the rare-book dealer Laurence C. Witten II, who died while this new edition was in preparation, of his acquisition of the map in 1957.".
catalog alternative "Tartar relation".
catalog alternative "Vinland map".
catalog contributor b9050063.
catalog contributor b9050064.
catalog contributor b9050065.
catalog contributor b9050066.
catalog contributor b9050067.
catalog contributor b9050068.
catalog contributor b9050069.
catalog created "1995.".
catalog date "1995".
catalog date "1995.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
catalog description "Introduction to the New Edition / George D. Painter -- The Case of the Vinland Map / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- Compositional and Structural Studies of the Vinland Map and Tartar Relation / Thomas A. Cahill and Bruce H. Kusko -- Vinland's Saga Recalled / Laurence C. Witten II -- Errata and Corrigenda -- Foreword to the First Edition / Alexander O. Vietor -- List of Illustrations -- 1. The Manuscript: History and Description / Thomas E. Marston -- 2. Facsimiles of the Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation -- 3. The Tartar Relation / George D. Painter -- 4. The Vinland Map / R.A. Skelton -- 5. The Tartar Relation and the Vinland Map: An Interpretation / George D. Painter.".
catalog description "The Vinland Map, dated to about A.D. 1440 - at least fifty years before Columbus landed in the Americas - is a unique map of the world that shows an outline of the northeast American coast and a legend describing its discovery in about 1000 by Leif Eiriksson, the Norseman from Greenland. The map was published by Yale University Press in 1965 and generated an enormous amount of debate. Chemical analysis of the ink later suggested that the map might be a forgery, but recent appraisals of both scientific and humanist evidence argue that it is indeed authentic. Now, on the thirtieth anniversary of its original publication, here is this classic of historical cartography in a new edition. It reprints unaltered the original text on the Vinland Map and an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols from 1245 to 1247 (the Tartar Relation), with which the map had at some stage been bound. To this have been added a new introduction by George D. Painter, sole survivor of the original team of editors, who discusses the verification of the map's authenticity; a new essay by Wilcomb E. Washburn, director of the Smithsonian's American Studies Program, on the map's provenance and scientific testing; and a new discussion of the map's compositional and structural aspects by Thomas A. Cahill and Bruce H. Kusko, of the Crocker Historical and Archaeological Projects at the University of California, Davis. There is also an account by the rare-book dealer Laurence C. Witten II, who died while this new edition was in preparation, of his acquisition of the map in 1957.".
catalog extent "xxvii, 291 p. :".
catalog identifier "0300065205 (alk. paper)".
catalog issued "1995".
catalog issued "1995.".
catalog language "eng lat lat".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press,".
catalog subject "912.7 20".
catalog subject "C. de Bridia, Brother, active 1247. Hystoria Tartarorum.".
catalog subject "Early maps.".
catalog subject "Franciscans Missions Asia.".
catalog subject "GA308.Z65 S55 1995".
catalog subject "Giovanni, da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari, -1252.".
catalog subject "Mongols History Sources.".
catalog tableOfContents "Introduction to the New Edition / George D. Painter -- The Case of the Vinland Map / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- Compositional and Structural Studies of the Vinland Map and Tartar Relation / Thomas A. Cahill and Bruce H. Kusko -- Vinland's Saga Recalled / Laurence C. Witten II -- Errata and Corrigenda -- Foreword to the First Edition / Alexander O. Vietor -- List of Illustrations -- 1. The Manuscript: History and Description / Thomas E. Marston -- 2. Facsimiles of the Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation -- 3. The Tartar Relation / George D. Painter -- 4. The Vinland Map / R.A. Skelton -- 5. The Tartar Relation and the Vinland Map: An Interpretation / George D. Painter.".
catalog title "Tartar relation".
catalog title "The Vinland map and the Tartar relation / by R.A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston, and George D. Painter ; foreword by Alexander O. Vietor ; with an introduction by Geotge D. Painter and essays by Wilcomb E. Washburn ... [et al.].".
catalog title "Vinland map".
catalog type "History. fast".
catalog type "Sources. fast".
catalog type "text".