When Witten purchased the Vinland Map from Ferrajoli, he discovered it was bound to a copy of the Tartar Relation, a report of the Mongol Empire originally written by C. de Bridia in 1247.

(The Lucerne copy of the Tartar Relation joins Yale’s copy as the only two known to exist.) ‘The big picture’ About the size of a placemat, the Vinland Map lacks the elaborate ornamentation of other ...

NEW HAVEN The latest scientific analysis of a disputed map of the medieval New World supports the theory that it was made 50 years before Christopher Columbus set sail. The study examined the ink ...

When Yale acquired the Vinland Map, it was within a copy of the Tartar Relation, a 1247 travelogue written by Polish missionaries to the Mongol Empire, but with a modern binding.

reports how the Vinland Map first came to light in 1957 when an Italian book dealer tried unsuccessfully to authenticate a world map bound in a 15 th-century manuscript titled the Tartar Relation ...

Since Witten had given the Vinland map and the Tartar Relation to his wife, Marston decided to give Mrs. Witten the Speculum as well, in the hope that some generous benefactor would buy all the ...

Brown, K. L. & Clark, R. J. H. Analysis of pigmentary materials on the Vinland Map and Tartar Relation by Raman microprobe spectroscopy. Analytical Chemistry 74, 3658 - 3661 (2002).

August 16, 2002. Using carbon-dating techniques, scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have determined the probable age of the “Vinland” map that predated Christopher Columbus’s arrival ...

The map and the accompanying “Tartar Relation,” a manuscript of undoubted authenticity that was at some point bound with the Vinland Map in book form, were purchased in 1958 for $1 million by ...

For the first time, scientists have ascribed a date – 1434 A.D., plus or minus 11 years – to the parchment of the controversial Vinland Map, possibly the first map of the North American continent.

reports how the Vinland Map first came to light in 1957 when an Italian book dealer tried unsuccessfully to authenticate a world map bound in a 15 th-century manuscript titled the Tartar Relation.