The mysteries of the Marco Polo maps / Benjamin B. Olshin
- Bib ID:
- 7460089
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Olshin, Benjamin B, author
- Description:
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- Chicago [Illinois] ; London [England] : The University of Chicago Press, 2014
- ©2014
- ix, 174 pages : maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780226149820 (hardback)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9780226149967 (eBook)
- Summary:
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Concerns a collection of maps and associated documents claimed to be from Marco Polo's time or that of his daughters (as many of the maps have the name or one or another of the three daughters on them). Discusses provenance, authenticity, and history of the documents, known to scholars as "the Marco Polo Maps" since 1948, here discussed fully for the first time.
- Full contents:
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- The "Marco Polo" maps and the Polo family
- Who was "Biaxio Sirdomap"?
- To the distant east
- The daughters' maps
- Chronicles and histories
- Maps of the new world
- Conclusions and future directions
- Appendix 1: an inventory of the documents
- Appendix 2: a partial genealogy of the Rossi family
- Appendix 3: a genealogy of the Polo family.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-165) and index.
- Also issued online.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2014
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