Note 460 — Chapter IV · THE SOURCES FOR THE PERIOD 1100–1250 A. D.
Reading edition
In addition to the general works discussed above, mention must be made of a geographical treatise of minor importance dating from our period. Book III of the Tractatus excerptionum, printed among the works of Hugh of St. Victor in Migne, Pat. lat., vol. clxxvii, cols. 209–216, is entitled De situ terrarum. This contains chapters on the three parts of the earth, on Asia, Africa, and Europe, on mountains, rivers, islands, and cities. Its attribution to Hugh of St. Victor is extremely doubtful. See Santarem, Essai, vol. i, 1849, p. 66, note 2.