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xxiv 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.

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, a great part, viz., nineteen chapters, of the “Itinerarium Fratris Si-