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Boguslaus, "minister of the friars who live in Bohemia and Poland", and the author claims to be writing in obedience to Boguslaus' authority, suggesting that the text was commissioned. It is an ethnographic report, although it also contains legendary material borrowed from the
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is bound in the fourth volume, although it may once have been part of the third. The Yale manuscript (Beinecke MS 350A) is also associated with the Upper
Rhineland and was probably made at Basel. The Lucerne manuscript is all parchment, while the Yale is a mix of parchment and paper. The Yale
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are unclear, although the date of its completion is known precisely: 30 July 1247. The author, C. de Bridia, is not otherwise known and his first name is initialized in the manuscripts. He describes himself modestly as "least among the
Franciscans". He is generally thought to have been
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lacks information on the friars' travels. It is more focused on Mongol history, customs and plans. For its time, its account of Mongol history, genealogies and methods of warfare are among the most detailed. It covers the
155:, on the other hand, argued that de Bridia wrote the account based on a lecture given by Benedict of Poland, probably in Germany, since the manuscript tradition of the text is associated with the
336:, but it is not simply a version of Carpine's text. It differs in tone and purpose. Its portrayal of the Mongols (and the Jews) is far more negative. It also lacks the strategic purpose of the
118:. During their return journey through Europe, Carpine wrote that they were obliged to hand over drafts of their official report to the curious. The official report by Carpine is known as the
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Towards the Peoples of the Endtime: C de Bridia as Religious Re-interpretation of Carpini". In Wolfram Brandes; Felicitas Schmieder; Rebekka Voß (eds.).
316:. The Yale manuscript may be a copy of the Lucerne, but it is more likely they both derive from the same exemplar. They certainly belong to the same manuscript family. The title
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composed by a certain C. de Bridia in Latin in 1247. It is one of the most detailed accounts of the history and customs of the
Mongols to appear in Europe around that time.
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Jackson, Peter (2016). "The
Testimony of the Russian "Archbishop" Peter Concerning the Mongols (1244/5): Precious Intelligence or Timely Disinformation?".
210:. The earlier dates to 1338–1340 and the later to about 1440. The latter was first brought to public attention in 1965 because it had been bound with the
358:(wonders) genre, perhaps because, as a non-traveler, de Bridia considered them missing from the accounts of the travelers. It reports the existence of
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was generally accepted by scholars as authentic, although there were dissenters. In 2006, an earlier copy of the text in the
362:, ox-footed people and other monstrous races typical of the genre. Another people, the Parossits, appear to be the actual
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Connell, Charles W. (2000). "Bridia, C. de (fl. c. 1245 C.E.)". In John Block
Friedman; Kristen Mossler Figg (eds.).
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is also incorporated. It is called
Narayrgen, which is said to come from the Tatar for "Men of the Sun".
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common in Europe. It records that the Mongols called the pope the "great pope throughout the West" (
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