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...related by Thomas E. Marston, Yale University Library's curator of medieval and Renaissance literature, in the gruffly deprecatory language of scholarship, the discovery of the map is quite a dramatic yarn in itself. It began in October 1957, when a New Haven antiquarian bookseller, Laurence Witten, dropped by the Yale 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...
Misplaced Holes. From the first glance, it was the map that excited Marston and Victor. It contained the usual overscaled version of Europe...
Several months later, Marston ordered two manuscripts from a London dealer, one of which was a modestly priced portion of the Speculum Historiale (Mirror of History) compiled by Vincent of Beauvais, the famed encyclopedist of the 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...
...Dating. The chances against anyone having such a stroke of luck were astronomical, and that as much as anything was one of the reasons that Victor and Marston consulted R. A. Skelton and George D. Painter, two experts with the British Museum, for exhaustive research, evaluation and testing of the manuscript. In lengthy papers, crammed with scholarship and bristling with footnotes, Skelton and Painter tell in The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation how they authenticated and dated both the map and the manuscript...
...MARSTON SCHWARTZ...