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Medieval Trade and Travel: Travel- Pilgrimage and Cartography

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

Overview

Cartography
Missionary Activity
Pilgrimage
Relics

Relics

The Waltham Chronicle by Leslie Watkiss; Marjorie Chibnall
Call Number: DA690.W23 D4 1994
Charlemagne's Courtier: the complete Einhard by Paul Dutton
Call Number: DC73.4 .E46 1998

See "Translation of the Relics of Sts. Marcellinus and Peter"

Missionary Activity

Mission to Asia by Christopher Dawson (Editor)
Call Number: DS798.2 .M63 1980
The mission of Friar William of Rubruck : his journey to the court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253-1255
Call Number: G161 .H2 2nd ser., no. 173
The Travels of Friar Odoric by Friar Odoric
Call Number: DS6 .O34137 2002

Cartography

For a more on cartography, see our Libguide "Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine"

The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican by Lucio Gambi; Paul Tucker (Translator)
Call Number: G1983 .G3 1997
Two by Two: twenty-two pairs of maps from the Newberry Library illustrating 500 years of Western cartographic history by James R. Akerman; Robert W. Karrow; David Buisseret
Call Number: GA190 .A327 1993
The discovery of the world : maps of the earth and the cosmos from the David M. Stewart Collection.
Call Number: GA190 .D38 1985
The Mapping of the World: : early printed world maps 1472-1700 by Rodney W. Shirley
Call Number: Z6028 .S48 1993

Over 600 examples in both color and black and white, range from the simple to the highly decorative.
The Cosmography of Aethicus Ister by Michael W. Herren (Editor)
Call Number: G87 .A52 2011

Publication Date: 2011-05-19
La "Descriptio mappe mundi" de Hugues de Saint-Victor by Patrick Gautier Dalché (Editor)
Call Number: GA304.H84 G38 1988
Monumenta cartographica vaticana iussu Pii XII P.M. consilio et opera procuratorum Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae.
Call Number: G1025 .A4 1944

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
The cosmographical glasse. by William Cunningham
Call Number: GA6 .C97 1968

1559
Cosmographicus liber Petri Apiani mathematici studiose collectus. 1524 by Peter Apian
Call Number: MICROFILM 1118.4

Microfilms of rare and out-of-print books ; list 7, no. 14.

Located in the VFL
The map of Great Britain circa A.D. 1360, known as the Gough map : [preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford].
Call Number: G5740 1360 .M3 1996 Facsim

Full-color facsimile reproduction of the 14th-century manuscript known as the Gough map, with accompanying commentary volume.
Claudii Ptolomei Cosmographie. 1470
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 9165, 9182

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 3810, 3811.

Located in VFL.
Ymago mundi by Pierre d'Ailly
Call Number: G94.A3 A3 1930

Texte latin et traduction française des quatre traités cosmographiques de d'Ailly et des notes marginales de Christophe Colomb

Pilgrimage

Pilgrim, from a Roman de la Rose
British Library Ms. Egerton 1069, f. 145

Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages by Brett Edward Whalen
ISBN: 144260199X
The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela
Call Number: BX2321.S3 M45 1993
The pilgrim's guide to Santiago de Compostela : the pilgrim's guide : a critical edition
Call Number: BX2321.S3 C6313 1998
Das Wunderbuch Unserer Lieben Frau im thüringischen Elende (1419-1517)
Call Number: BT652.G3 W86 2006
Pérégrination en Terre Sainte et au Proche Orient by Ricoldo da Montecroce
Call Number: DS46 .R5314 1997
Adamnan's De locis sanctis
Call Number: DS105 .A65 1958
Eberhard im Bart und die Wallfahrt nach Jerusalem im späten Mittelalter by Gerhard Faix und Folker Reichert (Editors)
Call Number: DS106 .E24 1998
Itineraria et alia geographica
Call Number: BR60 .C49 v.175, etc. v.176

Itineraria Hierosolymitana: Itinerarium Burdigalense ; Itinerarium Egeriae ; Breviarium de Hierosolyma ; Theodosii De situ Terrae Sanctae ; Ps.-Antonini Placentini Itinerarium ; Adamnani De locis sanctis ; Ps. Eucherii De situ Hierusolimae ; Bedae et Petri Diaconi De locis sanctis -- Itineraria Romana: Itinerarium Malmesburiense ; Itinerarium Einsidlense. -- Geographica.
Egeria's travels by John Wilkinson (Translator)
Call Number: DS104.5 .I813 1999
Concordantia in Itinerarium Egeriae = A concordance to the Itinerarium Egeriae by D.R. Blackman and G.G. Betts (Editors)
Call Number: BR167 .B56 1989
Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades by John Wilkinson
Call Number: BX2320 .J47 2002
Das "Itinerarium Bernardi Monachi" : Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar by Josef Ackermann (Editor)
Call Number: DD3 .M86 v.50
A Medieval Pilgrim's Companion by Thomas D. Spaccarelli
Call Number: BX4662 .S68 1998
Itinerarium Symonis Semeonis ab Hybernia ad Terram Sanctam by Symon Simeonis
Call Number: D975 .S99
Chronicle of the Third Crusade : a translation of the Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta Regis Ricardi by Helen J. Nicholson
Call Number: D151 .R52713 1997

For more on crusading, see our Libguide on the topic.
Itinerarium mentis in Deum. English. by Bonaventure
Call Number: BT100 .B5613 1993
Pilgerfahrt ins Heilige Land : die ältesten Berichte christlicher Palästinapilger (4.-7. Jahrhundert) by Herbert Donner (Editor)
Call Number: DS105 .P54 2002
Western pilgrims; the itineraries of Fr. Simon Fitzsimons (1322-23), a certain Englishman (1344-45), Thomas Brygg (1392), and notes on other authors and pilgrims. by Eugene Hoade
Call Number: D975 .H6 1970