Note 1245 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

For the Latin text of John of Pian de Carpine’s travels edited by d’Avezac with extensive commentary see: Recueil de voyages et de mémoires publié par la Société de Géographie, vol. iv, Paris, 1839, pp. 397–779. English translation of a part of this in Rockhill, op. cit., pp. 1–32. Professor Paul Pelliot of the Collège de France in a lecture delivered at Columbia University in 1923 announced that the original letter sent by Carpine from the Khan at Karakorum to the Pope had recently been discovered in the Vatican archives.