have been by the south of the Caspian Sea, through Syria, Persia, and Khorasan. Ascelin’s narrative, moreover, has not reached us entire; we know of it only from the accounts received by Vincent de Beauvais from Ascelin’s companion, Simon de St. Quentin.
The account of Ascelin’s journey will be found in the following works, as already more fully described.
Speculum historiale Vincentii Bellovacensis. Venetiis, 1499, fol. L. 31, C. 40, et seq.
Opera dilettevole ad intendere la qual si contiene dei Itinerarii in Tartaria. Venezia, 1537, 4to.
Voyage du P. Ascelin. In Bergeron, Voyages, éd. de P. van der Aa; vol. i. Together with the Travels of P. Carpino.
In Murray’s Discoveries and Travels in Asia, vol. i, p. 75-84.
Voyage du Frère Ascelin. Printed in Voyage de Benjamin de Tudèle, etc. Par. 1830, 4to.
Russian: In Jasykow, as alluded to in the notice of Plano Carpini.
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Simon de Saint Quentin. 1245.
Simon de St. Quentin, a Dominican monk, accompanied the embassy sent to Tartary by Pope Innocent IV, and prepared an account of this journey in Latin. The complete original of the journey has not been found; the dominican Vincent de Beauvais, Simon’s contemporary, gives, however, in his “Speculum Historiale”, in book XXVII, a great part, viz., nineteen chapters, of the “Itinerarium Fratris Si-
