Index viatorum extra Europam saec. XIII-XVIII

Giovanni de Marignolli

Dates of travel: 1338-1353
Areas visited: Crimea, Afghanistan, Gobi desert, Bejing, India, Quilon, Palestine
Birth / Death: c. 1290 / 1357-1359
City of Origin / Family: (probably) Florence
Report/Manuscript:
Report/Publication: Giovanni de Marignolli, Chronicon Bohemorum, in: Monumenta historica Boemiae nusquam antehac edita, ed. Gelasius Dobner, 2, Prag 1768, pp. 79-288 [travel report integrated in Bohemian and World History]; Girolamo Golubovich, Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa e dell'Oriente Francescano, 4, Quaracchi 1923, pp. 271-96 [excerpts].
Translation: John de’ Marignolli and his Recollections of eastern Travel, in: Cathay and the Way Thither. Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China, ed. Henry Yule (Hakluyt First Series), 1, London 1866, pp. 309-394. / Quellen zur Geschichte des Reisens im Spätmittelalter, ed. Folker Reichert, Margrit Stolberg-Vowinckel (Ausgewählte Quellen zu deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters, 46), Darmstadt 2009, pp. 178-90.
References: Wolfgang Giese, Tradition und Empirie in den Reiseberichten der Kronika Marignolova, in: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 56 (1974), pp. 447-56; Jean Richard, Les récits de voyages et pèlerinages (Typologie des sources du mosen âge occidental, 38), Turnhout 1981, pp. 28, 43.

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