INDEX TO THE CHAPTERS.
| Schiltberger to the Reader | [1] | |
| 1. | Of the first combat between King Sigmund and the Turks | [1] |
| 2. | How the Turkish king treated the prisoners | [4] |
| 3. | How Wyasit subjugated an entire country | [6] |
| 4. | How Wyasit made war on his brother-in-law, and killed him | [7] |
| 5. | How Weyasit drives away the king of Sebast | [10] |
| 6. | What sixty of us Christians had agreed upon | [10] |
| 7. | How Wyasit took the city of Samson | [12] |
| 8. | Of serpents and vipers | [12] |
| 9. | How the Infidels remain in the fields with their cattle, inwinter and summer | [14] |
| 10. | How Weyasit took a country that belonged to the Sultan | [18] |
| 11. | Of the King-Sultan | [19] |
| 12. | How Temerlin conquered the kingdom of Sebast | [20] |
| 13. | Weyasit conquers Lesser Armenia | [20] |
| 14. | How Tämerlin goes to war with the King-Sultan | [22] |
| 15. | How Tämerlin conquered Babiloni | [24] |
| 16. | How Tämerlin conquered Lesser India | [24] |
| 17. | How a vassal carried off riches that belonged to Tämerlin | [26] |
| 18. | How Tämerlin caused MMM children to be killed | [27] |
| 19. | Tämerlin wants to go to war with the Great Chan | [28] |
| 20. | Of Tämerlin’s death | [29] |
| 21. | Of the sons of Tämerlin | [30] |
| 22. | How Joseph caused Mirenschach to be beheaded, and tookpossession of all his territory | [31] |
| 23. | How Joseph vanquished a king and beheaded him | [32] |
| 24. | How Schiltberger came to Aububachir | [33] |
| 25. | Of a king’s son | [33] |
| 26. | How one lord succeeds another lord | [36] |
| 27. | Of an Infidel woman, who had four thousand maidens | [37] |
| 28. | In what countries I have been | [38] |
| 29. | In which countries I have been, that lay between the Tonowand the sea | [39] |
| 30. | Of the castle of the sparrow-hawk, and how it is guarded | [41] |
| 31. | How a poor fellow watched the sparrow-hawk | [42] |
| 32. | xxxii More about the castle of the sparrow-hawk | [42] |
| 33. | In which countries silk is grown, and of Persia and of otherkingdoms | [44] |
| 34. | Of the tower of Babilony that is of such great height | [46] |
| 35. | Of great Tartaria | [48] |
| 36. | The countries in which I have been, that belong to Tartary | [49] |
| 37. | How many kings-sultan there were, whilst I was amongst theInfidels | [51] |
| 38. | Of the mountain of St. Catherine | [54] |
| 39. | Of the withered tree | [56] |
| 40. | Of Jherusalem and of the Holy Sepulchre | [57] |
| 41. | Of the spring in Paradise, with IIII rivers | [61] |
| 42. | How pepper grows in India | [61] |
| 43. | Of Allexandria | [62] |
| 44. | Of a great giant | [64] |
| 45. | Of the many religions the Infidels have | [65] |
| 46. | How Machmet and his religion appeared | [65] |
| 47. | Of the Infidels’ Easter-day | [70] |
| 48. | Of the other Easter-day | [71] |
| 49. | Of the law of the Infidels | [71] |
| 50. | Why Machmet has forbidden wine to Infidels | [72] |
| 51. | Of a fellowship the Infidels have among themselves | [73] |
| 52. | How a Christian becomes an Infidel | [74] |
| 53. | What the Infidels believe of Christ | [75] |
| 54. | What the Infidels say of Christians | [76] |
| 55. | How Christians are said not to hold to their religion | [77] |
| 56. | How long ago it is, since Machmet lived | [78] |
| 57. | Of Constantinoppel | [79] |
| 58. | Of the Greeks | [80] |
| 59. | Of the Greek religion | [81] |
| 60. | How the city of Constantinoppel was built | [83] |
| 61. | How the Jassen have their marriages | [85] |
| 62. | Of Armenia | [86] |
| 63. | Of the religion of the Armenians | [87] |
| 64. | Of a Saint Gregory | [89] |
| 65. | Of a dragon and a unicorn | [90] |
| 66. | Why the Greeks and Armani are enemies | [96] |
| 67. | Through which countries I have come away | [99] |
The Armenian Pater Noster | [102] | |
The Tartar Pater Noster | [102] | |
SCHILTBERGER TO THE READER.
I, Johanns Schiltberger, left my home near the city of Munich, situated in Payren, at the time that King Sigmund of Hungary left for the land of the Infidels. This was, counting from Christ’s birth, in the thirteen hundred and ninety-fourth year,[1] with a lord named Leinhart Richartingen. And I came back again from the land of the Infidels, counting from Christ’s birth, fourteen hundred and twenty seven. All that I saw in the land of the Infidels, of wars, and that was wonderful, also what chief towns and seas I have seen and visited, you will find described hereafter, perhaps not quite completely, but I was a prisoner and not independent. But so far as I was able to understand and to note, so have I [noted] the countries and cities as they are called in those countries, and I here make known and publish many interesting and strange adventures, which are worth listening to.
[1]Neumann states in a note that this date, through the transcriber’s error, appears as 1344 in the Heidelberg MS.