ABSTRACT

Translated from the Heidelberg MS edited in 1859 by Professor Karl Friedrich Neumann, by Commander J. Buchan Telfer, R.N., F.S.A., F.R.G.S. With Notes by Professor P. Bruun of the Imperial University of South Russia, at Odessa, and a Preface, Introduction and Notes by the Translator and Editor. The supplementary material consists of the 1879 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1879.

part |102 pages

SCHILTBERGER TO THE READER

chapter 3|2 pages

How Wyasit subjugated an entire country.

chapter 7|1 pages

How Wyasit took the city of Samson

chapter 8|3 pages

Of serpents and vipers.

chapter 11|1 pages

Of the King-Sultan.

chapter 13|2 pages

Weyasit conquers Lesser Armenia.

chapter 15|1 pages

How Tämerlin conquered Babiloni.

chapter 16|3 pages

How Tämerlin conquered Lesser India.

chapter 20|2 pages

Of Tämerlin's death.

chapter 21|2 pages

Of the sons of Tämerlin.

chapter 24|1 pages

How Schiltberger came to Aububachir.

chapter 25|4 pages

Of a king's son.

chapter 26|2 pages

How one lord succeeds another lord.

chapter 28|2 pages

In what countries I have been.

chapter 32|2 pages

More about the castle of the sparrow-hawk.

chapter 35|1 pages

Of Great Tartaria.

chapter 38|3 pages

Of the mountain of St. Catherine.

chapter 39|2 pages

Of the withered tree.

chapter 40|5 pages

Of Jherusalem and of the Holy Sepulchre.

chapter 41|1 pages

Of the spring in Paradise, with mi rivers.

chapter 42|2 pages

How pepper grows in India.

chapter 43|3 pages

Of Allexandra.

chapter 44|2 pages

Of a great giant.

chapter 45|1 pages

Of the many religions the Infidels have.

chapter 46|6 pages

How Machmet and his religion appeared.

chapter 47|2 pages

Of the Infidels' Easter-day.

chapter 48|1 pages

Of the other Easter-day.

chapter 49|2 pages

Of the law of the Infidels.

chapter 52|2 pages

How a Christian becomes an Infidel.

chapter 53|2 pages

What the Infidels believe of Christ.

chapter 54|2 pages

What the Infidels say of the Christians.

chapter 56|2 pages

How long ago it is since Machmet lived.

chapter 57|2 pages

Of Constantinoppel.

chapter 58|2 pages

Of the Greeks.

chapter 59|3 pages

Of the Greek religion.

chapter 60|3 pages

How the city of Constantinoppel was built.

chapter 61|2 pages

How the Jassen have their marriages.

chapter 62|2 pages

Of Armenia.

chapter 63|3 pages

Of the religion of the Armenians.

chapter 64|2 pages

Of a Saint Gregory.

chapter 65|7 pages

Of a dragon and a unicorn.

chapter 66|4 pages

Why the Greeks and Armani are enemies.

chapter 67|4 pages

Through which countries I have come away.