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Medieval Trade and Travel: Travel-General

Library and internet resources about the medieval trade and travel from late antiquity to c. 1492

Overview

Ethnography and Travel Writing


Priest of Ulster and the wolf
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae
British Library Ms.
Royal 13 B VIII , f. 18

Marco Polo


Marco Polo’s Travels
Bodleian, University of Oxford MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 218r

Transmission and Reception: Islam and the West

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Medieval Cartography

MAPPA MUNDI
Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS. 9231, fol. 281v.

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