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Kevin McCafferty, Jay Hughes and Mitch Witten swept the bottom half of the shot put slate, gaining third, fourth and fifth positions...
...Haven, Conn., antiquarian bookseller named Laurence Witten purchased the map, which had been bound with a 13th century narrative of a Central Asian voyage, from a European dealer in 1957. Later Witten was given a fragment of a medieval encyclopedia that appeared to be written in the same hand as the narrative. Wormholes for all three documents-map, fragment and narrative-matched perfectly. Convinced of the map's authenticity, Witten in 1959 sold all three, reportedly for nearly $ 1 million, to an anonymous buyer, who in turn donated them to Yale. There, scholars determined that the map had been...
...work of a skilled 20th century forger. Using an intricate form of small-particle analysis that employs techniques developed since 1957, a Chicago firm found that the map's ink contained traces of anatase, a form of titanium dioxide whose properties were not known before the 1920s. Said Witten: "I have always said the Vinland map was controversial and that arguments about it were likely to continue for generations. I could not feel any other way than sad." About the way that 10,000 others-who paid $15 each for copies of the map published by Yale -must also...
...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...
...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 in the same hand, the watermarks...