# The Travels of the Knight, John Mandeville [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Bohemian]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Manuscript \(Additional Ms. 24189\) ## Commentary The Travels of the Knight, John Mandeville 1400-10 Manuscript \(Additional Ms. 24189\) British Library, London The fictional travels of Sir John Mandeville purport to be an account of a journey to the Far East. This coloured drawing in an eastern European manuscript of the early fifteenth century \(folio 8r\) shows Mandeville's party sailing into Syria and paying a landing tax to the local customs officer. ## Related artworks - [Antiphonary]() - [Antithesis Christi et Antichristi]() - [Antithesis Christi et Antichristi]() - [Codex Gigas]() - [Codex Gigas]() - [Codex Vyšehradensis]() - [Comments on Ptolemy]() - [Golden Bull of Charles IV]() - [Gradual of Vladislaus II]() - [Gradual of Vladislaus II]() - [Illustrations for Mandeville's Travels]() - [Johannes of Troppau: Evangeliary]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()