[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Latin](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la) › [Middle Ages (700 – 1500)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.medieval) › [Missionaries and travellers](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.medieval.travel) › Epistulae # Epistulae Letters of John of Montecorvino From India (1292/93, preserved in the letter of Fr Menentillus): thirteen months at the church of St Thomas in Maabar, a hundred baptisms, the companion Nicholas of Pistoia buried there, notes on Indian people, climate, trees and the sea; his Peking letters of 1305–06 recall the journey. - **Language:** Latin - **Date:** 1292–1306 CE - **Author:** [Iohannes de Monte Corvino](https://indike.org/pramana/person/john-montecorvino) - **Extent:** 5,230 words - **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry) ## Translations (1) - [Cathay and the Way Thither, vol. 3 (Letters of John of Monte Corvino)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.medieval.travel.montecorvino~en-yule) — English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.medieval.travel.montecorvino](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.medieval.travel.montecorvino) · Pramāṇa