LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I. Section from a Catalan Map ^1375 showing :

1.  Cyprus        ^

2.  Jerusalem

3.  Dead Sea

4.  Mount Sinai ^ .             .             .             .      Frontispiece

5.  Damascus

6.   Cairo

7.  Red Sea      I

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II. The Holy Sepulchre,    From a Book of Hours {before 1480).

British Museum, Egerton MS, 1070, /. 5      .             .       56

III.  An Elephant,    From the Pilgrim Book of Gabriel Muff el

of Nuremberg {it^6^),    British Museum, Egerton MS.
1900? /• 110^     •             •             •             •             •      78

IV.  St, Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai,    By Gabriel

Muffel, f, 12'^b   .            .            .            .            .82

V. A Storm at Sea,    From the Warwick Pageant, 1383-
1439.    British    Museum,    Cottonian   MS,,    Julius
E IV,    {The Earl of Warwick binds himself, his
lady and son to the mast)     .             .             .             .152

VI. Venice,    By Gabriel Muff el, f, ^.b {See Nos, 3 and 4)    168

VII. The Emperor John VIII Palaeologus. From Benozzo
Gozzoli's fresco in the chapel of the Riccardi Palace,
Florence              .             .             .             .             .176

VlII. A Tournament. From a Flemish Calendar of the fifteenth
or early sixteenth century. British Museum, Add. MS,
24098,7.23/^     .             .             .             .             .194

Sketch Map to illustrate the travels      .             .             *    ^3i
 

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