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Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: (1272) and theVenetian envoy Odoric of Pordenone, who traversed thisroute, the latter about 1320, record traditions that definitelyattach the Three Wise Men to certain cities. Odoric expresslysays that Kashan, or Cassan, as he calls it, was the city ofthe Three Kings and that these worshippers set out fromthere to Jerusalem, which they reached by divine aid in thir-teen days.* The passage in the account of Odoric de Por-denone reads as follows : — De la Cite de Cassan. — De ceste cite men alay vers la grantInde par mer. Si vins par maintes jcuriiees a une cite des trois roysqui firent offrande a Jhesu Crist ncuvel ne. Et appelle on ceste citede Cassan, cite royal de grant honneur mais Tartre Iont moult de-struite. De cette cite de Cassan jusques en Jherusalem a plus de l 1 On this point, see Sykes, Ten See my article in JA08. 26.Thousand Miles in Persia, p. 158. 79-83. 2 See Barbier de Meynard, Diet. * See Odoric de Pordenone, ed. Cor-geog. p. 434, n. 1. dier, p. 41, Paris, 1891.

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