Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. - With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by C. Raymond Beazley
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For the Introductory chapter: (1) Reinaud's account of the Arabic
geographers and their theories in connection with the Greek, in his edition of Abulfeda, Paris, 1848; (2) Sprenger's Massoudy, 1841; (3) Edrisi, translated by Amédée Jaubert; (4) Ibn-Batuta (abridgment), translated by S. Lee, London, 1829; (5) Abulfeda, edited and translated by Reinaud; (6) Abyrouny's _India_, specially chapters i., 10-14; xvii., 18-31; (7) texts of Strabo and Ptolemy; (8) Wappäus' _Heinrich der Seefahrer_, part 1. I. For Chapter I. (Early Christian Pilgrims): (1) _Itinera et Descriptiones Terræ Sanctæ_, vols. i. and ii., published by the Société de l'Orient, Latin, Geneva, 1877 and 1885, which give the original texts of nearly all the Palestine Pilgrims' memoirs to the death of Bernard the Wise; (2) the Publications of the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society; (3) Thomas Wright's _Early Travels in Palestine_ (Bohn); (4) Avezac's _Recueil pour Servir à l'histoire de la géographie_; (5) some recent German studies on the early pilgrim records, _e.g._, Gildemeister on Antoninus of Placentia. II. For Chapter II. (The Vikings): (1) Snorro Sturleson's _Heimskringla_ or Sagas of the Norse Kings; (2) Dozy's essays; (3) the, possibly spurious, _Voyages of the Zeni_, with the Journey of Ivan Bardsen, in the Hakluyt Society's Publications. III. For Chapter III. (The Crusades and Land Travel): (1) Publication of the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society; (2) Avezac's edition of the originals in his _Recueil pour Sevir à l'histoire de la géographie_; (3) Yule's _Cathay and the Way Thither_; (4) Yule's Marco Polo; (5) Benjamin of Tudela and others in Wright's _Early Travels in Palestine_; (6) Yule's _Friar Jordanus_; (7) Sir John Mandeville's _Travels_. |
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