This is a study of an itinerary incorporated in the famous trading manual compiled by the Florentine banker Pegolotti. The route runs between Ayas in Cilicia through the territory of the Seljuks in Asia Minor and the lands of the Il-Khanids to Tabriz in Iran and the itinerary itself likely originates in the 1320s. Tom Sinclair explains the significance of this route as the largest avenue of east-west trade in the period from the late 1250s to 1337, when Ayas was destroyed by the Mamluks, and sets it in the broader context of the trade between Europe and the Middle East and China during the...