Mount Ararat after these had vanished from the popular mind, that the Armenian theologians ventured to locate on its eternal snows the resting-place of Noah's ark." The 13th century Franciscan missionary William of Rubruck is usually considered the earliest reference for the tradition of Mount Ararat as the landing place of the ark in European literature. The 14th century English traveler John Mandeville is another early author who mentioned Mount Ararat, "where Noah's ship rested, and it is still there." Most Christians identify Mount Ararat with the biblical "mountains of Ararat," despite the fact that six other landing places have been proposed,
Mountains of Ararat read: ""requievitque arca . . . super montes Armeniae"" ("and the ark rested . . . on the mountains of Armenia"); though in the "Nova Vulgata" as promulgated after the Second Vatican Council, the toponym is amended to ""montes Ararat"" ("mountains of Ararat"). By contrast, early Syrian and Eastern tradition placed the ark on Mount Judi in what is today Şırnak Province, Southeastern Anatolia Region, an association that had faded by the Middle Ages and is now mostly confined to Quranic tradition. The Book of Jubilees specifies that the ark came to rest on the peak of Lubar, a mountain