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Sir John Mandeville writing an account of his voyage, c1410-c1420. He is writing on a roll of parchment. A curtain separates his study from a high vaulted hall. From Voyage d'outre mer (The Travels of Sir John Mandeville), a book written between 1357 and 1371. It purports to be the travelogue of an Englishman named Sir John Mandeville across the Near East as far as India and China.