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India in the Fifteenth Century Volume 22; Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India, in the Century Preceeding the Portugese Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian Sources, Now First Translated Into Englis

Richard Henry Major

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ... After a stormy passage he arrived at Kalahat, in Arabia, in the month of March, 1444. We invite the reader's attention to the amusing description of his sea passage. The next journey into India given in this volume is that of Athanasius Nikitin, a Russian, whose narrative was translated for the present work by the late amiable and highly accomplished Count Wielhorsky, Secretary to the Russian Legation at the court of St. James's, who has left us the following account of the narrative itself and of the document from which it has been translated. " It will be remembered that during the middle ages, the monasteries in Western Europe were the only abodes of learning and science, and the only means through which records of times gone by were saved from oblivion and transmitted to posterity. The same may be said of the monastic orders of the Greek Russian Church with regard to the part they took in preserving the literary and historical monuments of remote ages. It was the task of many of those working and humble brethren, to commemorate in true but simple words, recollections of the past and occurrences of the present; to register periods of joy or of sorrow, and to describe in alternate succession events of the highest moment as well as trivial incidents of every-day life. 14 A register of this description, the work of a successive number of chroniclers, was kept in the college of the Cathedral Church of St. Sophia at Novgorod. It first attracted the attention of M. P. Stroew, a gentleman formerly attached to the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Moscow, and was published in 1821 under the title of Sofiyski Premennik, or Sophian Chronicle, in two volumes, 4to. " It is in the second volume of this work, pp. 145164, that Nikitin's journey to India w...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with India in the Fifteenth Century Volume 22; Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India, in the Century Preceeding the Portugese Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian Sources, Now First Translated Into Englis. To get started finding India in the Fifteenth Century Volume 22; Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India, in the Century Preceeding the Portugese Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian Sources, Now First Translated Into Englis, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2012

ISBN: 1154082423

Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ... After a stormy passage he arrived at Kalahat, in Arabia, in the month of March, 1444. We invite the reader's attention to the amusing description of his sea passage. The next journey into India given in this volume is that of Athanasius Nikitin, a Russian, whose narrative was translated for the present work by the late amiable and highly accomplished Count Wielhorsky, Secretary to the Russian Legation at the court of St. James's, who has left us the following account of the narrative itself and of the document from which it has been translated. " It will be remembered that during the middle ages, the monasteries in Western Europe were the only abodes of learning and science, and the only means through which records of times gone by were saved from oblivion and transmitted to posterity. The same may be said of the monastic orders of the Greek Russian Church with regard to the part they took in preserving the literary and historical monuments of remote ages. It was the task of many of those working and humble brethren, to commemorate in true but simple words, recollections of the past and occurrences of the present; to register periods of joy or of sorrow, and to describe in alternate succession events of the highest moment as well as trivial incidents of every-day life. 14 A register of this description, the work of a successive number of chroniclers, was kept in the college of the Cathedral Church of St. Sophia at Novgorod. It first attracted the attention of M. P. Stroew, a gentleman formerly attached to the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Moscow, and was published in 1821 under the title of Sofiyski Premennik, or Sophian Chronicle, in two volumes, 4to. " It is in the second volume of this work, pp. 145164, that Nikitin's journey to India w...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with India in the Fifteenth Century Volume 22; Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India, in the Century Preceeding the Portugese Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian Sources, Now First Translated Into Englis. To get started finding India in the Fifteenth Century Volume 22; Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India, in the Century Preceeding the Portugese Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian Sources, Now First Translated Into Englis, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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India in the Fifteenth Century Volume 22; Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India, in the Century Preceeding the Portugese Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian Sources, Now First Translated Into Englis

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