Aliud etiam referam de magno cane quod vidi. Odorik z Pordenone a jeho setká(vá)ní s Velikým chánem.
| Title in English | Aliud etiam referam de magno cane quod vidi. Odoric of Pordenone and his meeting(s) with the Great Khan. |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Odoric of Pordenone (ca. 1280/85-1331), a Franciscan monk and pilgrim to the court of Kublai Khan, has spent, in the 1320s, three or four years in Khanbaliq (now Beijing), the capital of the Yuan empire. He arrived to the capital around 1325, at a time when John of Montecorvino (ca. 1247–1328), also a Franciscan, was titular archbishop of Khanbaliq and patriarch of the East (1307–1328). There are several important passages regarding the kingdom and power of the Great Khan in Latin manuscripts of Odoric's travelogue. Most Latin manuscripts and some manuscripts in other languages such as French, Italian, Tuscan or Venetian, adds to the very end of the text amendment known as De reverentia magni Chanis. Only a few of Latin manuscripts adds a text know as De praedicatione magno Chani. Both amendments reveal the interrelationship between the Franciscans and the Great Khan. |