Editing Vinland Map (section)

===''A Sorry Saga'' 2018 ===
[[File:Vinland Map on display at Mystic Seaport, May 2018.jpg|thumb|right|Yale's Vinland Map on display at Mystic Seaport Museum, May 2018]]
In June 2013, it was reported in the British press that a Scottish researcher, John Paul Floyd, claimed to have discovered two pre-1957 references to the Yale ''Speculum'' and ''Tartar Relation'' manuscripts which shed light on the provenance of the documents.<ref name="TheTimes" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.maphist.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=360 |title=Details of the recent Vinland Map discoveries / References |last=Floyd |first=John Paul |date=21 May 2013 |publisher=Maphist forum |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108212410/http://www.maphist.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=360 |archive-date=8 November 2014 |access-date=Apr 27, 2018}}</ref> According to one of these sources (an exhibition catalogue), a 15th-century manuscript volume containing books 21-24 of the ''Speculum Historiale'' and C. de Bridia's ''Historia Tartarorum'' was lent by the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zaragoza|Archdiocese of Zaragoza]] for display at the 1892–93 ''Exposición Histórico-Europea'' (an event held in [[Madrid, Spain]] to commemorate the voyages of Columbus).<ref>{{Cite book |title=Exposición Histórico-Europea 1892 á 1893: Catálogo General |date=1893 |publisher=Fortanet |location=Madrid, Spain |page=Sala X: 53}}</ref> Floyd noted that Spanish priest and scholar [[Cristóbal Pérez Pastor]] also reported having seen such a codex, in historical notes organised and published posthumously in 1926.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pérez Pastor |first=Cristóbal |title=Noticias y Documentos relativos á la Historia y Literatura Españolas recogidos por D. C. Pérez Pastor (tomo III) |date=1926 |publisher=Real Academia Española |location=Madrid, Spain |page=89}}</ref> Neither the catalogue entry nor Pérez Pastor's description mentioned the presence of a map. It is known that Enzo Ferrajoli, who offered the Vinland manuscript for sale in 1957, was convicted of having stolen manuscripts from the Cathedral Library of La Seo, Zaragoza, in the 1950s.<ref name="Hancock">{{Cite book |last=Hancock |first=Peter |title=Hoax Springs Eternal: The Psychology of Cognitive Deception |date=2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107071681 |edition=1st}}</ref> 

Separately, Floyd also observed that the creator of the Vinland Map had evidently made use of an 18th-century engraving of the [[Bianco world map|1436 Bianco map]] by Vincenzio Formaleoni (1752–97), since the Vinland Map reproduces several of Formaleoni's copying errors. He argued that this furnished a new and decisive proof that the map is inauthentic.<ref name="TheTimes"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/JCBMAPS~1~1~3272~101552:Planisferio-antico-di-Andrea-Bianco?qvq=w4s:/who/Bianco,%20Andrea,%20fl.%201436-1458/Formaleoni,%20V.%20A.%20%28Vincenzio%20Antonio%29,%201752-1797/;lc:JCB~1~1,JCBBOOKS~1~1,JCBMAPS~1~1,JCBMAPS~2~2,JCBMAPS~3~3&mi=1&trs=2 |title=c1782 engraving from Andrea Bianco map (per J.P. Floyd claims) |last=Formaleoni |first=Vincenzio |date=1783 |publisher=John Carter Brown Library |access-date=1 February 2015}}</ref>

Floyd's book appeared in 2018 under the title, ''A Sorry Saga: Theft, Forgery, Scholarship... and the Vinland Map''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Floyd |first=John Paul |date=2018 |title=A Sorry Saga: Theft, Forgery, Scholarship... and the Vinland Map |publisher=Independently Published |isbn=9781719979788}} </ref>