Word: carpini
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...Library to show Marston and Map Curator Alexander O. Victor a slim volume that Witten had acquired from a private collection in Europe. The book included the map and 21 pages of text, which were a transcription of an account of the expedition led by Friar John de Piano Carpini across Central Asia in 1245-47. Friar Carpini himself wrote a well-known account of his trip in 1247, but the version in Witten's book was transcribed by another Franciscan friar, identified only as C. de Bridia, who had heard of the expedition secondhand...
...Middle Ages. When the Speculum manuscript arrived, it was in such an attractive 15th century binding that Dealer Witten asked to examine it. That night Witten telephoned Marston in great excitement. The Speculum manuscript was the key to the puzzle of the Vinland map and the text of the Carpini mission, which was later to be called "the Tartar Relation." The manuscript was written in the same hand, the watermarks on the paper were identical, and the wormholes showed that the map had been at the front of the volume and the Tartar Relation at the back...