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mendicant friar written around 1350. However, immediately upon its appearance, contemporary scholars (not without a touch of mockery at the editor) noted the travelogue was largely fantastical and imaginary, and that there was no clear indication that the author was a friar, Franciscan or otherwise.
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El Libro del Conosçimiento de todos los rregnos et tierras e señoríos que son por el mundo et de las señales et armas que han cada tierra y señorío por sy y de los reyes y señores que los proueen, escrito por un franciscano español á mediados del siglo
224:, and subsequently held by the count of San Clemente in Zaragoza, was reported lost sometime around 1680. It is believed this was the manuscript that resurfaced in London in 1978, popularly known as Manuscript "Z", currently held by the 181:"Book of the Knowledge of all the Kingdoms, Lands and Lordships that are in the World, and the arms and devices of each land and lordship, or of the kings and lords who possess them" (Markham 1912). 178:
Libro del conosçimiento de todos los reynos y tierras y señoríos que son por el mundo, et de las señales et armas que han cada tierra y señorío por sy y de los reyes y señores que los proueen
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Book of knowledge of all the kingdoms, lands, and lordships that are in the world, and the arms and devices of each land and lordship, or of the kings and lords who possess them
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illustrator. A facsimile was published in 1999. In the introduction to that edition, editor Lacarra doubts the original c.1350 dating, and proposes instead that the
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roll. Its choice of presenting itself in the form of an imaginary travelogue may have been whimsical, to tap into the fashionable
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as he passes them. The only explicit information is that the anonymous author claims to have been born in
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El libro del conoscimiento de todos los reinos = The book of knowledge of all kingdoms
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María Jesús Lacarra, María del Carmen Lacarra Ducay, Alberto Montaner (eds.),
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Four manuscripts of the work are known, designated "Z", "N", "R" and "S".
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La heráldica en el Libro del Conoscimiento y el problema de su datación
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Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms, Clements Robert, 1912. Archive.org
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was discovered in 1874 and compiled and published in 1877 in
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was probably composed a bit later, probably around 1385.
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Title page illustration of the "Z" manuscript, with the
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14th-century Castilian geographical and armorial manual
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