Carpini Plano libellus de moribus bellicis Tartarorum, 1245. It commences with the prologue: Omnibus Xpi fidelibus frater Johannes de Plano Carpini, etc.
The third Vienna copy is in folio, and on paper, marked No. 651, and bears the title—
Carpini Plano legatio in Tartariam.
Another copy is to be found in the Vatican library, with the title—
Libellus historicus Joannis de Plano Carpini, qui missus est legatus ad Tartaros anno Domini 1246 ab Innocentio IV Pontifice Maximo.
The following copies are farther known. In Cambridge two, one in the University library, No. 61, 3; the other, in that of Corpus Christi College, No. 181.
In Tournai, in the library of St. Martin.
In Leyden, in the University library. This MS. belonged formerly to the celebrated Paul Petau.
In the British Museum is a copy which formerly belonged to Lord Lumley, and which was used by Hakluyt for his “Principal Navigations”.
In the Bibliothèque Royale, Paris, No. 686, in the collection presented by Jacques Dupuy, and another MS., No. 2477, written on parchment in the fourteenth century, which formerly belonged to the minister Colbert.
The work is divided into two distinct parts, of which the first contains the narrative of the journey itself, the rest treating of the manners, customs, etc., of the Tartars.
The printed travels may be found in the following works:—
