Subject: Asia, Central--Description and travel--13th-14th centuries

Changchunzhenren xiyouji 長春真人西遊記
AuthorLi Zhichang 李志常, 1193-1278
PlaceShanghai 上海
PublisherShangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition初版
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook
SeriesGuoxue jiben congshu 國學基本叢書, Wanyou wenku 萬有文庫 ; 第2集 ; 621種
ShelfStacks
Call NumberAC269.S416 1936 v. 2 ; 621
Description1, 50 p. ; 18 cm.
NoteChangchunzhenren xiyouji 長春真人西遊記 : [上下卷] / Li Zhichang shu 李志常述.
民國26 [1937].

"Changchunzhenren xiyouji 長春真人西遊記 [The Western Journey of the Sage of Eternal Spring], 1121-23, records in diary form the journey of the Daoist master Qiu Chuji 丘處機, who was invited to visit Chinggis Khan (Temüjin) in the Hindu Kush; written by his disciple Li Zhichang 李志常 (1193-1256). It contains the only eyewitness account of the founder of the Mongolian Empire. See The Travels of an Alchemist, Arthur Waley, London, 1931 ... etc. Cf. Wilkinson, Chinese History, a Manual, p. 745.

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En demanda del Gran Kan : viajes a Mongolia en el siglo XIII
AuthorGil, Juan
PlaceMadrid
PublisherAlianza Editorial
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
Language
TypeBook
SeriesAlianza universidad ; 757
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberDS19.D46 1993
Description474 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
NoteEn demanda del Gran Kan : viajes a Mongolia en el siglo XIII / Juan Gil [compilador].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 16-23) and index.
Carta sobre la vida, secta y origen de los tártaros / de fray Julián -- La historia de los mongalos / de Juan de Pian del Cárpine -- La relación de fray Benito de Polonia, compañero de fray Juan -- La embajada de fray Ascelino -- El viaje de fray Guillermo de Rubruc.
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ISBN8420627577
LCCN94126730
Mission to Asia
AuthorGiovanni, da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari, d. 1252Ruysbroeck, Willem van, ca. 1210-ca.1270Dawson, Christopher, 1889-1970
PlaceToronto
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
CollectionRicci Institute [AEC]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
SeriesMedieval Academy reprints for teaching ; 8
ShelfAdmin. Office
Call NumberDS798.2.M63 1980
Descriptionxxxix, 246 pages ; 21 cm.
NoteMission to Asia / Christopher Dawson.
"University of Toronto Press in association with the Medieval Academy of America"
Reprint. Originally published: The Mongol mission. London : Sheed and Ward, 1955.
Reprinted 1966 by Harper & Row as: Mission to Asia: narratives and letters of Franciscan missionaries in Mongolia and China in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / translated by a Nun of Stanbrook Abbey ; edited and with an introduction by Christopher Dawson.
1998 printing.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxvii-xxxviii) and index.

History of the Mongols / by John of Plano Carpini -- The narrative of Brother Benedict the Pole -- The journey of William of Rubruck -- The letters of John of Monte Corvino, Brother Peregrine, and Andrew of Perugia.

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ISBN0802064361 ; 9780802064363
LCCN81122939
Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian
AuthorPolo, Marco 馬可波羅, 1254-1323?Masefield, John, 1878-1967
PlaceNew York, London, Toronto
PublisherJ.M. Dent, E.P. Dutton
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
SeriesEveryman's Library. Travel & Topography, Everyman's Library ; 306
ShelfStacks
Call NumberG370.T718 P767 1929
Descriptionxvi, 461, [1] p. ; 18 cm.
NoteThe Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian / [with an introduction by John Masefield].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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