Appendix D.—_comparative Specimens of Different

Recensions of Polo’s Text._

FRENCH.

1. MS. PARIS LIBRARY, 7367 (now Fr. 1116).

(Geographic Text.)

Quant l’en se part de le isle de PENTAM e l’en ala por ysceloc entor cent miles, adonc treuve le ysle de JAVA LA MENOR; mès si sachiés q’ele ne est pas si peitite q’ele ne gire environ plus de deus mille miles, et de ceste ysle voz conteron toute la virité. Or sachiés qe sor ceste ysle ha huit roiames et huit rois coronés en ceste ysle, e sunt tuit ydres et ont langajes por elles. Car sachiés che chascun des roiames ont langajes por eles. En ceste ysle a mout grandisme habundance de trezor et de toutes chieres especes e leingn aloe et espi, et de maintes autres especes que unques n’en vienent en nostre pais. Or vos voil conter la maineres de toutes cestes jens, cascune por soi, e vos dirai primermant une cousse qe bien senblera à cascun mervoilliose cousse. Or sachiés tout voirmant qe ceste ysle est tant à midi qe la stoille de tramontaine ne apert ne pou ne grant. Or noz retorneron à la mainere des homes, e voz conteron toute avant dou rouiame de FERLEC.

2. MS. OF PARIS LIBRARY, 10260 (Fr. 5631)

(Pauthier’s MS. A.)

Quant on se part de l’isle de MALIUR, et on nage quatre vingt dix milles, adonc treuve en l’isle de Javva la Meneur; mais elle n’est mie si petite qu’elle n’ait de tour ii. milles. Et si vous conteray de cette isle l’affaire.

Sachiez que sus ceste isle a viij. royaumes et viij. rois courronnés. Ilz sont tuit ydolastres; et si a, chascun royaume, son langaige par soy. Il y a en ceste isle grant quantité d’espiceries. Et si vous conteray la maniere de la plus grant partie de ces huit royaumes. Mais je vous diray avant une chose. Et sachiez que ceste isle est si vers midi que l’estoille tremontainne n’y apert.

Or nous retournerons à notre matiere, et vous conterons tout avant du royaume de FALEC.

3. BERN MS.

(T. de Cepoy’s Type.)

Quant l’en se part de l’isle de MALAIUR, et l’en a nagie par seloc environ iiiiˣˣ et x milles, il dont treuve l’en la petite Isle de JAVA, mais elle n’est pas si petite qu’elle ne dure bien environ ijᶜ milles. Et si vous conterons de ceste isle tout l’affaire et verité.

Ore sachiez que sous ceste isle y a viij. royaumes et viii. roys couronnez, car chascun roy si a couronne par soy. Il sont tout ydres et chascun royaume par soy a son langage. Il y a en ceste isle moult grant tresor, et si y a moult despeceries de moult de manieres. [Et si vous conteray la maniere] de la plus grant part de ces viii. royaumes chascun par soy, mais avant vous diray une chose qui moult samblera estrange à chascun. Sachiez que l’estoille de Tramontane apert ne pou ne assez.

Ore retournons nous a nostre manière.

ITALIAN.

4. CRUSCA.

Quando l’uomo si parte dell’isola di PETAM, e l’uomo va per isciroc da c miglia, trova l’isola di IAVA LA MINORE, ma ella non è si piccola ch’ella non giri ii. M miglia: e di questa isola vi conterò tutto il vero. Sappiate che in su questa isola hae viii. re coronati, e sono tutti idoli, e ciascuno di questi reami ha lingua per sè. Qui ha grande abbondanza di tesoro e di tutte care ispezierie. Or vi conterò la maniera di tutti questi reami di ciascuno per sè; e dirovvi una cosa che parrà maraviglia ad ogni uomo, che questa isola è tanto verso mezzodì, che la tramontana non si vede nè poco nè assai. Or torneremo alla maniera degli uomeni, e dirovvi del reame di FERBET.

5. BERN ITALIAN.

Se lo homo se parte da PENTAN e navicha per sirocho c. mia, trova l’isola de IANA MINORE che volze ben piu de iiᵐ. mia. In la qˡᵉ isola è viii. regnami, e ciascun regname ha uno re. La zente de questa isola ha linguazo per si e sono idolatri e ge grande habundantia de specie che non sono mai in nostre contrade.

Questa isola è tanto verso mezodi chel non se po veder la stella tramontana ne pocho ne assai. Jo non fui in tutti li regnami de questa provincia ma fui in solo lo regname de FORLETTI e in quel de BASARON e in quello de SAMARA e in quello de GROIAN e in quel de LAMBRIN e in quello de FANFIRO. In li altri dui non fui. E pero io ne diro pur de questi dove sum stado.

6. RAMUSIO’S PRINTED TEXT.

Quando si parte dall’Isola PENTAN, e che s’è navigato circa a cento miglia per Scirocco, si truova l’Isola di GIAUA MINORE. Ma non è però cosi picciola, che non giri circa due mila miglia a torno a torno. Et in quest’isola son’otto reami, et otto Re. Le genti della quale adorano gl’idoli, & in ciascun regno v’è linguaggio da sua posta, diverso dalla favella de gli altri regni. V’è abbondanza di thesoro, & di tutte le specie, & di legno d’aloe, verzino, ebano, & di molte altri sorti di specie, che alla patria nostra per la longhezza del viaggio, & pericoli del navigare non si portano, ma si portan’alla provincia di Mangi, & del Cataio.

Hor vogliamo dire della maniera di questi genti di ciascuna partitamente per se, ma primamente è da sapere, che quest’isola è posta tanto verso le parti di mezo giorno, che quivi la stella Tramontana non si puo vedere, & M. Marco fu in sei reami di quest’isola, de’ quali, qui se ne parlerà, lasciando gli altri due che non vidde.

LATIN.

7. MS. OF PARIS LIBRARY, 3195. (Geographic Latin.)

Quando homo recedit de insula de PENTAY et vadit per silochum sentum miliaria, invenit insulam minorem de JAVA, et est ista insula parva et durat duo millia miliaria; et de istâ insulâ computabo vobis omnia. Super istâ insulâ sunt octo regna, in sex quorum ego Marcus fui, scilicet in regnis Ferlech, Basman, Samara, Dragoiam, Lambri et Fanfur. In aliis autem duobus non fui; et secundum quod sunt octo regna, ita sunt octo reges coronati, et sunt omnes idolatrae. Et quodlibet istorum regnorum habet linguam per se. Ibi est magna abundantia thesauri et de omnibus caris speciebus; et dicam vobis de istâ insulâ quaedam quae videbuntur mirabilia. Ista insula est tantum versus meridiem quod tramontana non videtur ibi nec parvum nec multum. Postquam diximus vobis de insulâ et de regnis ipsius, nunc computemus de moribus hominum ipsius insulae, et primo de regno Ferlech.

8. PIPINO’S VERSION (British Museum, King’s Libr. 14 c. xiii.).

Ultra insulam Pentham per Syrocum post miliaria centum invenit insulam quæ dicitur JAUA MINOR quæ in suo ambitu continet miliaria duo milia. Ibi sunt octo regna cum singulis regibus et est ibi propria lingua. Et omnis habitatores insulæ ydolatrie sectatores sunt. Ibi est omnium aromatum copia, quarum similitudinem nunquam vidimus citra mare. Hec insula in tantum est ad meridiem posita, quod de ipsâ insula Polus Articus videri non poterit stella seu illa quæ vulgariter dicitur Tramontana. Ego autem Marcus fui in sex regnis hujus insulæ, sc. in regnis FERLECH, BASMAN, SAMARA, DRAGOIAN, LAMBRI et FAMSUR. In aliis autem duobus non fui. Et primo dicam de regno Ferlech.

9. VERSION OF CICOGNA MS. in Museo Civico, Venice.

Ab ynsulâ Pentain cerca 100 mil. versus Syroch est ynsula JAUA que licet Minor dicatur per respectum alterius supradicte est in circuitus [sic] 2000 mil. et plus. In ipsâ enim sunt 8 regna singuli et reges, et habet quodlibet regnum per se proprium ydeoma, et est in ipsâ tesaurus multus valde et species magni valoris multe, et lignum aloes et spica, et multe diverse species que nunquam in nostris partibus apportantur. Et est hec ynsula in tantum versus meridiem possita quod Polus Articus breviter non apparet.

10. VERSION PRINTED IN THE NOVUS ORBIS OF GRYNÆUS.

Ultra insulam PETAN, per Sirochum navigando, est JAUA MINOR, centum distans milliaribus à PETAN: et hæc in circuitu continere dicitur circiter duo millia milliarium. Dividitur insula in octo regna, habetque linguam propriam. Producit etiam varia aromata, qualia in his nostris partibus nunquam visa sunt.... Protenditur hæc insula in tantum ad Austrum, ut Polus Articus, et stelle ejus minime videri possent. Ego Marcus fui in hâc insula, lustravique sex ejus regna, nempe regnum Ferlech, Basman, Samara, Dragoiam, Lambri, et Fansur. In aliis vero duobus non fui.

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Omitted in MS. or at least in my transcript.

Word doubtful.

APPENDIX E.—The Preface of Friar Pipino to his Latin Version of Marco Polo.

(Circa 1315–1320.)

“The Book of that prudent, honourable, and most truthful gentleman, MESSER MARCO POLO of Venice, concerning the circumstances and manners of the Regions of the East, which he conscientiously wrote and put forth in the Vulgar Tongue, I, FRIAR FRANCESCO PIPINO of Bologna, of the Order of the Preaching Friars, am called upon by a number of my Fathers and Masters to render faithfully and truthfully out of the vulgar tongue into the Latin. And this, not merely because they are themselves persons who take more pleasure in Latin than in vernacular compositions, but also that those who, owing to the diversity of languages and dialects, might find the perusal of the original difficult or impossible, may be able to read the Book with understanding and enjoyment.

“The task, indeed, which they have constrained me to undertake, is one which they themselves could have executed more competently, but they were averse to distract their attention from the higher contemplations and sublime pursuits to which they are devoted, in order to turn their thoughts and pens to things of the earth earthy. I, therefore, in obedience to their orders, have rendered the whole substance of the Book into such plain Latin as was suited to its subject.

“And let none deem this task to be vain and unprofitable; for I am of opinion that the perusal of the Book by the Faithful may merit an abounding Grace from the Lord; whether that in contemplating the variety, beauty, and vastness of God’s Creation, as herein displayed in His marvellous works, they may be led to bow in adoring wonder before His Power and Wisdom; or, that, in considering the depths of blindness and impurity in which the Gentile Nations are involved, they may be constrained at once to render thanks to God Who hath deigned to call His faithful people out of such perilous darkness into His marvellous Light, and to pray for the illumination of the hearts of the Heathen. Hereby, also, the sloth of undevout Christians may be put to shame, when they see how much more ready the nations of the unbelievers are to worship their Idols, than are many of those who have been marked with Christ’s Token to adore the True God. Moreover, the hearts of some members of the religious orders may be moved to strive for the diffusion of the Christian Faith, and by Divine Aid to carry the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, forgotten among so vast multitudes, to those blinded nations, among whom the harvest is indeed so great, and the labourers so few.

“But lest the inexperienced Reader should regard as beyond belief the many strange and unheard of things that are related in sundry passages of this Book, let all know MESSER MARCO POLO, the narrator of these marvels, to be a most respectable, veracious, and devout person, of most honourable character, and receiving such good testimony from all his acquaintance, that his many virtues claim entire belief for that which he relates. His Father, Messer Nicolo, a man of the highest respectability, used to relate all these things in the same manner. And his uncle, Messer Maffeo, who is spoken of in the Book, a man of ripe wisdom and piety, in familiar conversation with his Confessor when on his death-bed, maintained unflinchingly that the whole of the contents of this Book were true.

“Wherefore I have, with a safer conscience, undertaken the labour of this Translation, for the entertainment of my Readers, and to the praise of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of all things visible and invisible.”

APPENDIX F.—Note of MSS. of Marco Polo so far as they are known.

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION OF MSS. +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | Latin | French |Italian | German | Irish |Total | +-----------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+ | GREAT BRITAIN | | | | | | | | and IRELAND | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | 16 | | Cambridge | 3 | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | Dublin | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | Lismore Castle| ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | | | Glasgow | 2 | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | London | 4 | 2 | 1 | ... | ... | | | Oxford | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | | | | | | | | | | | FRANCE | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | 12 | | Paris | 4 | 7 | 1 | ... | ... | | | | | | | | | | | LUXEMBURG | 1 | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | 1 | | | | | | | | | | BELGIUM | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | 1 | | Brussels | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | | | | | | | | | | | ITALY | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | 29 | | Venice | 4 | ... | 2 | ... | ... | | | Ferrara | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | | | Milan | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | Modena | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | Florence | 1 | ... | 8 | ... | ... | | | Lucca | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | | | Siena | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | | | Rome | 4 | 1 | 4 | ... | ... | | | | | | | | | | | SPAIN | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | 3 | | Escurial | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | Toledo | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | | | | | | | | | | | SWITZERLAND | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | 3 | | Bern | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | | | Vevey | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | | | | | | | | | | | GERMANY | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | 16 | | Munich | 4 | ... | ... | 4 | ... | | | Wolfenbüttel | 2 | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | Berlin | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | | | Würzburg | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | Giessen | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | Jena | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | Mentz | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | | | | | | | | | AUSTRIA | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | 2 | | Prague | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | Vienna | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | | | | | | | | | | | SWEDEN | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | ...... | 2 | | Stockholm | ... | 2 | ... | ... | ... | | +-----------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+ | | 41 | 16 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 85 | +-----------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------+

I add Lists of the Miniatures in two of the finer MSS. as noted from examination.

LIST OF MINIATURES IN THE GREAT VOLUME OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL LIBRARY, COMMONLY KNOWN AS ‘LE LIVRE DES MERVEILLES’ (Fr. 2810) WHICH BELONG TO THE BOOK OF MARCO POLO.

1. Frontispiece. “Comment les deux freres se partirent de Constantinople pour cherchier du monde.”

2. Conversation with the Ambassadors at Bokhara (fol. 2).

3. The Brothers before the G. Kaan (f. 2 v.).

4. The Kaan giving them Letters (f. 3).

5. „ „ „ „ a Golden Tablet (f. 3 v.).

6. The Second Departure from Venice (f. 4).

7. The Polos before Pope Gregory (f. 4 v.).

8. The two elder Polos before the Kaan presenting Book and Cross (f. 5).

9. The Polos demand congé (f. 6).

10. (Subject obscure) (f. 7).

11. Georgians, and Convent of St. Leonard (f. 8).

12. The Calif shut up in his Treasury (f. 9).

13. The Calif ordering Christians to move the Mountain (f. 10).

14. Miracle of the Mountain (God is seen pushing it) (f. 10 v.).

15. The three Kings en route (f. 11 v.).

16. „ „ „ adoring the Fire (f. 12).

17. (Subject obscure—Travelling in Persia?) (f. 12 v.).

18. Cattle of Kerman (f. 13 v.).

19. Ship from India arriving at Hormus (f. 14 v.).

20. Travelling in a Wood, with Wild Beasts (f. 15 v.).

21. The Old Man’s Paradise (f. 16 v.).

22. The Old Man administering the Potion (f. 17).

23. Hunting Porcupines in Badashan (f. 18).

24. Digging for Rubies in Badashan (f. 18).

25. Kashmir—the King maintaining Justice (i.e., seeing a Man’s head cut off) (f. 19 v.).

26. Baptism of Chagatai (f. 20 v.).

27. People of Charchan in the Desert (f. 21 v.).

28. Idolaters of Tangut with Ram before Idol (f. 22 v.).

29. Funeral Festivities of Tangut (f. 23).

30. (Subject obscure) (f. 24).

31. Coronation of Chinghiz (f. 25 v.).

32. Chinghiz sends to Prester John (f. 26).

33. Death of Chinghiz (f. 27).

34. (Subject obscure) (f. 28).

35. Some of Pliny’s Monsters (à propos de bottes) (f. 29 v.).

36. A Man herding White Cattle (?) (f. 30 v.).

37. Kúblái hawking, with Cheeta en croupe (f. 31 v.).

38. Kaan on Elephant, in Battle with Nayan (f. 33).

39. Nayan with his wife surprised by the enemy (f. 34).

40. The Kaan’s four Queens (f. 36).

41. The Kaan’s Palace, with the Lake and Green Mount (f. 37).

42. The Kaan’s Son’s Palace (f. 38).

43. The Kaan’s Banquet (f. 39).

44. „ worship of Idols (f. 40).

45. The Kaan travelling in Horse-litter (f. 41).

46. „ hunting (f. 42).

47. „ in Elephant-litter (f. 42 v.).

48. The White Feast (f. 44).

49. The Kaan gives Paper for Treasure (f. 45).

50. Couriers arrive before Kaan (f. 46 v.).

51. The Kaan transplants big Trees (f. 47 v.).

52. The Bridge Pulisangin (f. 49).

53. The Golden King as a Cow-herd (f. 50).

54. Trade on the Caramoran (f. 51).

55. The Girls of Tibet (f. 52 v.).

56. Fishing Pearls in Caindu (f. 54).

57. Dragons of Carajan (f. 55 v.).

58. Battle of Vochan (f. 58).

59. The Forests of Mien, Elephants in the Wood (f. 59).

60. „ „ and Unicorns, etc. (f. 59 v.).

61. Lion hunting in Coloman (f. 61).

62. Return from the Chase (f. 62 v.).

63. The Queen of Manzi surrenders (f. 64).

64. The City of Quinsai (f. 67).

65. The Receipt of Custom at Quinsai (f. 69).

66. Curiosities brought from India to Great Kaan (f. 71).

67. War with Chipangu (f. 72).

68. Scene at Sea (an Expedition to Chipangu?) (f. 73 v.).

69. Cannibals of Sumatra (f. 74 v.).

70. Cynocephali (rather Alopecocephali!) (f. 76 v.).

71. The folk of Ma’abar, without raiment (f. 78).

72. Idol worship of Indian girls (f. 80).

73. The Valley of Diamonds (f. 82).

74. Brahmin Merchants (f. 83).

75. Pepper gathering (f. 84).

76. Wild Beasts (f. 85).

77. City of Cambaia (f. 86 v.).

78. Male and Female Islands (f. 87).

79. Madagascar (f. 88).

80. Battle of the Abyssinian Kings (f. 89 v.)

81. City of the Ichthyophagi (f. 91).

82. Arab horses at Calatu (f. 92).

83. Wars of Caidu (f. 93 v.).

84. Prowess of Caidu’s daughter (f. 95 v.).

LIST OF MINIATURES IN THE BODLEIAN MS. OF MARCO POLO.

1. Frontispiece (f. 218).

2. The Kaan giving the Golden Tablet.

3. Presentation of Pope’s Letter.

4. Taking of Baudas.

5. The Bishop before the Calif.

6. The Three Kings at Bethlehem.

7. White Oxen of Kerman.

8. Paradise of the Old Man.

9. River of Balashan.

10. City of Campichu.

11. Battle with Prester John.

12. Tartars and their Idols.

13. The Kaan in his Park at Chandu.

14. Idol Worship.

15. Battle with Nayan.

16. Death of the Rebels.

17. Kaan rewarding his Officers.

18. „ at Table.

19. „ hunting.

20. The Kaan and his Barons.

21. The Kaan’s alms.

22. City of Kenjanfu.

23. „ „ Sindinfu.

24. People of Carajan.

25. The Couvade.

26. Gold and Silver Towers of Mien.

27. Funeral Customs.

28. The Great River Kian?

29. The Attack of Saianfu (with a Cannon, a Mangonel, and a Crossbow).

30. City of Quinsay.

31. Palace of Facfur.

32. Port of Zayton.

33. Cynocephali.

34. „

35. Idolaters of Little Java.

36. Pearl Divers.

37. Shrine of St. Thomas.

38. The Six Kings, subject to Abyssinia.

Part of the Frontispiece is engraved in vol. i. p. 18 of the present work; the whole of the Frontispiece representing the Piazzetta reduced has been poorly reproduced in Mrs. Oliphant’s The Makers of Venice, London, 1887, p. 134.

APPENDIX F.—List of MSS. of Marco Polo’s Book so far as they are known.

The MSS. marked thus * are spoken of after Personal Inspection by the Editor.

NO. LOCALITIES. INDICATIONS. LANGUAGE.

DESCRIPTION OF MSS.

AUTHORITIES.

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

1 British Museum Library Harleian MSS., No. 5115 Latin

Pipino’s Version; with the work of Hayton the Armenian; Parchment; written about A.D. 1400, in a careful hand.—152 ff.—folio.

2 British Museum Library Arundel, XIII., Plut. 163 c. Latin

Pipino’s; followed by Odoric in same hand, but more carelessly written. Parchment. [4to; 51 fol., 14th century.—H. Cordier, Odoric de Pordenone, p. lxix.].

3 British Museum Library Bibl. Reg. XIV., c. 13.—Plut. 12 f. Latin

Pipino’s. A well-written folio [311 ff.] on parchment, containing Ranulf of Chester; Praefationes Historiographorum; Gyraldus Camb. de Conq. Hyberniae; Libellus de Mirab. Sanctae Terrae; Odoric; Rubruquis; Polo; Verses of Master Michael of Cornwall; etc.—[H. Cordier, Odoric, pp. lxviii–lxix.].

4 British Museum Library Bib. Reg. XIX., D. I. French

Paul Meyer, Doc. ms. de l’ancienne litt. de la France, 1871, pp. 69–80.

5 British Museum Library Additional MSS., No. 19, 952 Plut. cxcii. B. Latin

Pipino’s. Paper, small 4to.—111 ff. Appended, f. 85 et seqq., is a notice of Mahommed and the Koran: Incipit Noticia de Machometo et de Libro Legis Sarracenorum, etc. Appears to be the work of William of Tripoli. (See vol. i. p. 23.). Purchased of D. Henry Wolff, 12th August, 1854.

6 British Museum Library Sloane MSS., No. 251 Italian dialect

Paper, small fol. 39 ff. A good deal abridged, and in a desperately difficult handwriting; but notable as being the only MS. besides the Geog. Text which contains the war of Toctai and Nogai at the end of the Book. It does not, however, contain the majority of the historical chapters forming our Book IV. At the end, f. 39 v., is “Esplizzit Liber Milionis Ziuis Veneziani Questo libro scrissi Saluador Paxuti (?) del=1457 a viazo di Baruti [Patron Misser Cabual Volanesso, chapit. Misser Polo Barbarigo].” (The latter words [in part.—H. C.] from Marsden; being to me illegible).

7 British Museum Library Egerton, 2176 French

Translated from the Latin version of Pipino. Parchment, 103 folio, 4to. Illuminated Capital Letters. Purchased of R. Townley Nordman, 22nd June, 1872.

Yule, 2nd ed., II. p. 517.

8 OXFORD Bodleian, No. 264 French

This is bound up with the celebrated Alexander MS. It is a beautiful work, embellished with thirty-eight miniatures, some of which are exquisite, e.g., the Frontispiece, a large piece of about 9½ in. × 9 in., forming a sort of condensed view of the Field of Travel; a large part of it occupied by VENICE, of which our cut (The Piazzetta) in vol. i., p. 18, Introduction, is an extract. Another fine work (f. 220) represents the three Polos presenting the Pope’s Letter to the Khan. The embroidered hands on the Khan’s robe form an inscription, in which is legible “Johannes me fecit.” This Mr. Coxe attributes to John of Cologne, a known artist of the 14th century. He considers the MS. to be of about 1380. The Alexander is dated 1338, and its illuminations as finished in 1344 by Jehan de Grise. [See supra, p. 528, note.] A comparison of a good many readings, as well as of the point where the version breaks off, and the words: “Explicit le Livre nommé du Grant Cann de la Graunt Cité de Cambaluc, Dieux ayde Amen,” indicate that this MS. is of the same type as Pauthier’s C (No. 20 in this List) and the Bern. MS. (No 63). The name given in the colophon as above has caused the work to be entered in the old Printed Catalogue under a wrong title. Hence the MS., as one of Marco Polo, has been overlooked.

9 OXFORD Merton College, No. 312 Latin

Pipino’s; followed by Hayton, and Palladius de Agriculturâ.

Coxe, Catal. Codd. MSS. Oxon. Pt. I., p. 123.

10 CAMBRIDGE University Library, D. d. I. 17, No. 12 Latin

Pipino’s.

The same folio contains Jacques de Vitry, Hayton, several works on Mahommedanism, among others that of William of Tripoli (vol. i. p. 23), Piers Plowman, etc., etc.

Catal. of MSS. in Lib. of Camb. University, I. 22.

11 CAMBRIDGE University Library, D. d. VIII. 7 Latin

Fragment of Marci Pauli Veneti Historia Tartarorum (probably Pipino’s.).

Catal. of MSS. in Lib. of Camb. University, I. 22.

12 CAMBRIDGE Gonville and Caius College, No. 162 Latin

Pipino’s; with Odoric, and other works relating to Asia. [H. Cordier, Odoric, p. lxviii.]

Catal. of MSS. of Gonville and Caius Coll. Library, by Rev. J. J. Smith, 1849.

13 GLASGOW Hunterian Collection, S. 5. 7 Latin

Pipino’s Version, with illuminated initials, in a volume containing Guido Colonna’s Hist. destruct. Trojæ; De Gestis Alex. Magni; Turpinus de Gestis Caroli Magni; M.P.V.; Oderichus de Mirabilibus Tartariæ. Parchment, 4to.

Note by Rev. Prof. W. P. Dickson, D.D.

14 GLASGOW Hunterian Collection, Q. 6. 21 Latin

Pipino’s also with illuminated initials, and also followed by Odoric. Parchment, 4to.

Note by Rev. Prof. W. P. Dickson, D.D.

15 IRELAND Lismore Castle, and a transcript in Library of Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Irish

See vol. i., Introduction, Irish Version, pp. 102–103.

O’Curry’s Lectures, and special Note by Mr. J. Long, Dublin.

16 Dublin Trinity College, No. 632 Latin

Marco Polo: Itinerarium (ff. 43), 4to; 15th century. In a collection of “Historical and Miscellaneous Treatises” comprising: Leges S. Edwardi per Will. Conq. confirmatæ; De Fundatoribus Eccles. quarundam in Anglia, etc.

Cat. of the MSS. in the Lib. Trinity College, Dublin, ... by T. K. Abbott, 1900, p. 105.

FRANCE.

17 PARIS Bib. nationale, No. 7367 (now Fr. 1116) French

This is the most precious of all MSS. of Polo. It has been fully spoken of (vol. i., Int., The Old French Text) under the name of the Geographic Text (or G. T.), because it was printed by the Société de Géographie in 1824. [See I, p. 83] A large 4to of thick parchment; 112 ff.; very clearly though not very neatly written in Gothic text.—14th century. A facsimile of this MS. has been made this year (1902) at Karlsruhe. (See App. H. p. 569.)

18 PARIS Bib. nationale, No. 8329 (now Fr. 2810) French

“Ce Liure est des // Merueilles du Monde. Cest assavoir de la Terre // Saincte. Du Grant Kaan Empereur des tartars. // Et du pays Dynde. Le Quel // Liure Jehan Duc de Bourgoingne donna // a son oncle Jehan fils de Roy de // France duc de Berry et Dauviergne, Conte // de Poitou, Detampes. de Bouloingne. et Dauvergne. // Et contient le dit Liure six // Livres. Cest assavoir. Marc Pol. Frere Odric de lordre des // Freres meneurs. Le Liure fait à la requeste du Cardinal Taleran de // Pierregort. L’Estat du Grant Kaan. Le Liure de Messire Guillaume // de Mandeville. Le Liure de Frere Jehan Hayton de lordre de premonstre. // Le Liure de Frere Bicul de lordre des Freres Prescheurs //—Et sont en ce dit Liure Deux cens soixante six // hystoires.” Signed by N. Flamel. Then follows. 1° Marco Polo: “Cy après commence le liure de Marc Paule des merveilles daise la grant et dinde la maiour et mineur Et des diuerses regions du monde.”—Begins: “Pour sauoir la pure verite de diuerses regions du monde. Si prenez ce liure cy et le faictes lire. Si y trouuerez les grandismes merueilles qui y sont escriptes....” Ends (Fol. 96 verso): “Et a tant fine messire marc pol son liure de la diuision du monde et des merueilles dicelluy.” Of the 266 histoires or miniatures in this splendid book, 84 belong to the story of Polo. We have given engravings of several of them. Its value is estimated in the catalogue of the Library of the Duc de Berry in 1416 (quoted by Pauthier) at 125 livres, equivalent (if parisis) to about 115l. This is Pauthier’s MS. B. See vol. i., Int., Various Types of the Text. Large folio on vellum. [H. Cordier, Odoric, pp. cviii–cxiii.].

19 PARIS Bib. Nationale, No. 10260 (now Fr. 5631) French

“Ci commencent les rebriches de cest Livre qui est appelez le Deuisement du Monde, lequel je Grigoires contrefais du Livre de Messire Marc Pol le meilleur citoien de Venisse creant Crist.” At the beginning of the Text is a coarse drawing of Kúblái on his bretesche, carried by four elephants (vol. i., p. 337); and after the prologue another apparently representing the Princess Aijaruc wrestling with her wooer (vol. ii. p. 465). This is Pauthier’s MS. A. (vol. i, Int., Various Types of the Text), and also was in the Duc de Berry’s Library, valued at 6 livres 5 sols. [Second half of the 14th cent.].

20 PARIS Bib. nationale, No. 10,270 (now Fr. 5649) French

This is Pauthier’s MS. C. (See as before.) It is that which has the certificate about the original presented to the Seigneur de Cepoy; see Int., p. 69. At the end is Bertran Pichart scripsit hoc. Small 4to, parchment, in a clear enough half-current hand; 134 ff. Came from the library of the Archb. of Rheims. [Middle of the 15th century.]

21 PARIS Bib. nationale (675)? French

I know nothing of this MS. except its readings of names given in the Table appended to the Geographic Text. It then belonged to the Comte d’Artois. Lazari has it entered as belonging to the Bibl. Imp., I know not if correctly. [I have been unable to find it in the Bibliothèque nationale.—H. C.]

See preceding column.

22 PARIS Bib. nationale, Fr. nouv. acq. 1880 French

This is a copy of the time of King Louis XII., made apparently for Admiral Louis Malet de Graville, Governor of Honfleur, who died in 1516; it bears the arms of the Urfé family; it is at times modernized, but less is suppressed in it than in MSS. 5631 and 2810. The MS. ends: “Et se aucuns disoint qui a luy ...” about the middle of ch. cxcix. of Pauthier’s ed., p. 738, line 4. These are also the last words of the Stockholm MS. of which it is a copy. Purchased in 1870.

L. Delisle, Bib. Ec. Chartes, xliii. p. 219.

23 PARIS Bib. de l’Arsenal, No. 5219 French

Translated by Robert Frescher.—Fol. 1. “Prologue du present livre, par maistre Robert Frescher, bachelier formé en theologie translateur.—Berose, ainsi que Jozephe nous a laissé par escript, fut natif de la cité de Babilone....”—Fol. 9. Begins: “Pour scavoir la pure verité des diverses regions du monde, lisés ou faictes lire ce livre....” Incomplete; ends: “... Argon fut filz de Abaga mon frere, et se aucun disoit que a luy.” (See Pauthier’s ed., p. 738.) Parchment; ff. 168; end of the 15th or beginning of 16th century. From the libraries of Charles Adrien Picard and de Paulmy. With miniatures some of which are engraved in Mœurs, Usages et Costumes du Moyen Age, par le Bibliophile Jacob, pp. 411–413.

Cat. des MSS. de l’Arsenal, V. p. 163.

24 PARIS Bib. nationale, No. 3195 Latin

This is the old Latin version, published by the Soc. de Géog., and which I have cited as Geographic Latin or G. L. (See vol. i., Int., Various Types of the Text.) [Contains: Petri Amphusi clericalis disciplina; Odoric; Marco Polo; Bernardi cujusdam ad Raymundum Castri Ambrosii epistola de modo rei familiaris utilius gubernandae. Cf. Cat. Cod. MSS. Bib. Reg. Pars tertia., t. iii. Paris, 1744, p. 385. Parchment, small fol., 15th century.—H. Cordier, Odoric, p. lxxxiii—H. C.].

Printed Text.—H. Cordier.

25 PARIS Bib. nationale, No. 1616 Latin

Pipino’s. [Paper; fol. cccvii. et seqq.].

Table in the G. T.

26 PARIS Bib. nationale, No. 6244 A. Latin

Pipino’s. [Paper.]

Table in the G. T.

27 PARIS Bib. Nationale, Codd. Ital., No. 10,259 [now 434] Italian

Paper, 4to, of 14th century. Seen, but not examined with any care, which I regret, as the readings suggest that it may have been that text from which Pipino translated [pp. 100.]. [Begins f. 2 recto: “Signori Imperadori Re e Duci e tutte altre gienti che // uolete sapere le diuerse gienerationi delle gienti // elle diuersità delle regioni del mondo leggiete que // sto libro doue retrouerrete tutte le grandissime marauigle,” etc. Ends: “Explicit Liber de Milione per Messe Marcho Polo di Vinegia. Deo gratias.”]

I Manoscritti Italiani ... della R. Bib. Parigina ... dal Ant. Marsand, 1835, 4to.

28 PARIS Former Library of Baron C. Walckenaer Latin

A miscellaneous volume, containing an imperfect copy of Pipino’s version. Present locality not known.

Table in the G. T.

LUXEMBURG.

29 LUXEMBURG City Library, No. 50 Latin

Volume containing several works; and among them Marchi (Pauli) Veneti Liber Narrationum Morum, etc. Paper; written 1448 by Tilman Pluntsch, “canonicus ecclesie SS. Chresanti et Darie monasterii Eyfflie.”

Pertz, Archiv, viii. 594.

BELGIUM.

30 BRUSSELS Royal Library, No. 9309 French

Derives from the Paris 5631 and 2810 and the Stockholm MS., 14th century.

G. Raynaud, Romania, xi. pp. 429–430.

ITALY.

31 VENICE St. Mark’s Library, Cl. X. Codd. Lat. 72 Latin

Pipino’s. Formerly belonged to the Monastery of St. John’s in Viridario at Padua, to which it was presented by John Marchanova, Doctor of Arts and Medicine, 1467. Paper, 4to. (It is mentioned by Marsden as at Padua, p. lv.)

Lazari.

32 VENICE St. Mark’s Library, Cl. X. Codd. Lat. 128 Latin

Another of Pipino’s. Paper, 4to, of 15th century.

Lazari.

33 VENICE St. Mark’s Library, Cl. VI. Codd. Ital., 56 Italian (Ven. dialect)

A rude translation of Pipino’s version, written late in the 15th century. Also contains a translation of the same Pipino’s Tract, De Locis Terrae Sanctae. Belonged to T. G. Farsetti. Paper, folio.

Lazari.

34 VENICE St. Mark’s Library, Cl. VI. Codd. Ital., 208 Italian (Ven. dialect)

Corresponds to the Venetian edition of 1496, but even more inaccurate, with absurd interpolations. The volume contains also Odoric, A. Ca’ da Mosto, V. da Gama, Columbus, etc., being of the beginning of the 16th century. Paper, 4to. Belonged to Morelli.

* Lazari.

35 VENICE Museo Civico, Coll. Cicogna, No. 2389, now 2408. Latin

✛Paper, large 4to; belonged to Gian-Giuseppe Liruti, and after to E. A. Cicogna; contains also Odoric, published by G. Venni in 1761, and other matter.

This is the MS. noticed at vol. i. Int., Ramusio’s Italian Version, p. 102, as containing several passages found in no other text except Ramusio’s Italian. Written in 1401 by the Notary Philip, son of Pietro Muleto of Fodan (or Fogan?) in Friuli, whilst studying Rhetoric at Padua.

* [H. Cordier, Odoric, pp. xci.–xcii.]

36 VENICE Library of Count Donà delle Rose Italian, with a Venetian tinge

It begins: “Quegli che desiderano d’entendere le maraviglose chose del mondo de l’Asia de Armenia persia e tartaria dell indie et diverse parti del mondo legano questo libro et intenderano quello chel nobelle citadino Veneciano Miss. Marcho Polo,” etc., and ends: “Explicit liber Millionis civis Veneciarum. Expleto ad CCCCXLVI mensis setembris die vigesimo-octavo.” These extracts indicate that it belongs to the same type as the Sloane MS. No. 6, in our list.

Note by Comm. Nicolò Barozzi, Director of the Museo Civico at Venice.

37 FERRARA Public Library, No. 35n (336, N.B. 5) Italian, with a Venetian tinge

Incipit prologus Libri qui vulgari hominum dicitur “El Milione.” This looks as if it were not Pipino’s.

Note by the Abate S. B. Mondino.

38 MILAN Ambrosian Library, M. 526, Sc. D. Latin

Fragments extracted from Pipino’s version inserted at end of 2nd part of the Cronica Libri Ymaginis Mundi of Fr. Jacopo d’Acqui. (Vol. i. Int., Captivity of M. Polo.) Paper, folio. 14th century.

Lazari.

39 MODENA Este Library Latin

Pipino’s Parchment of 14th century. Muratori speaks of this. (Script. VII.) as “fortassis autographum.”

Muratori; and Prof. Bianconi, Degli Scritta di Marco Polo, etc.

40 FLORENCE Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Nationale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV. c. 104 Italian (Tuscan)

The Crusca MS., of which an account has been given, vol. i. Int., Original Language of the Book. Paper, folio, early in 14th century.

41 FLORENCE Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Nazionale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV. c. 73 Italian

Many liberties taken with the text, and much abridged and disarranged. Thus, after the Prologue it proceeds: “Al nome di Dio io Marcho Polo Veneziano racconterò tutte le maravigliose chose ch’io trovai e vidi, etc. etc.” It ends at the chapter on Russia with the following impertinence: “E se volete sapere più innanzi dimandatene un altro ch’io Marcho Polo non cercai più avanti.” The Khalif is called Largaliffe; Reobarles, Reubarbe, with a marginal note in an old hand, “Reubarbe città di Persia, donde viene il reubarbero herba medicinale.” Completed by Dolfo Spini, 16th July, 1425. Paper. Belonged to the Strozzi Collection.

42 FLORENCE Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Nazionale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV., c. 61 Italian

This corresponds to the Pucci MS. noted below (No. 47). It contains the colophon quoted at vol. i. Int., Some Estimate of Polo and his Book, p. 115, note. Paper, folio, 1392, 100 ff. of which the first 40 contain Polo. Not well written. Ex. Bibl. Gaddianâ.

* Baldelli-Boni.

43 FLORENCE Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Nazionale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV., c. 136 Italian

Both beginning and end are missing. Slightly different from the Crusca. 14th century.

* Baldelli-Boni.

44 FLORENCE Riccardian Library Italian

Ends with chapter on Russia. Followed by an extract of Mandevile and a valuable coll. of geographical documents of 15th century and beginning of 16th. Paper 4to, 16th century.

45 FLORENCE Riccardian Library Latin

Pipino’s; but reaching only to Bk. III. ch. 31. Paper, 14th century.

46 FLORENCE Riccardian Library Italian (Ven. dialect), No. 1924

Partial and defective transcript under the title of Itinerario di Levante.

G. Uzielli, Note.

47 FLORENCE Library of Pucci family Italian

See remarks at vol. i. Int., Various Types of the Text. Completed 20th Nov. 1391.

48 FLORENCE Bib. Palatina (now united to Nazionale), Cod. 572 Italian

The language differs slightly from that of the Crusca, and, where I have compared it, is less compressed. Ends with Rossia. Paper, small 4to, 14th century. Written somewhat roughly in a very old hand. Rustician is Messer Restazo da Pisa. The Grand Kaan gives the Polo’s a “tovaglia d’Oro.”

49 LUCCA Bib. governativa, Coll. (Lucchesini, Giacomo), No. 26 (now No. 296) Italian (Ven. dialect)

Corresponds to the corrupt Venice epitome published in 1496. Contains also Odorico.

Baldelli-Boni.

50 SIENA Public Library, c. V. 14 Italian

This is a miscellaneous MS. which, among other things, contains a fragment of Polo, “Qui comīcio ellibro di Missere Mācho Polo da Vinegia de le cose māuiglose che trovo p̄ lo mondo,” etc. It calls Rusticiano Missere Stacio da Pisa.—N.B.—Baldelli gives a very similar description of a fragment at Sienna, but under press mark A. IV. 8. I assume that it is the same that I saw.

51 ROME Vatican Library, Cod. 2207, Ottoboniano French

A fragment, going no further than the chapter on Georgia, and ending thus: “Autre chose ne vous en scay dire parquoi je vous fois fin en ce livre; le nom de notre Seigneur soi benoist et de sa benoiste Mere. Amen. Loys de Luxembourg.” Parchment, 14 cent.

Baldelli-Boni.

52 ROME Vatican Library, No. 2935 Latin

An old Latin abridgment of Polo, entitled De Mirabilibus Mundi. The same volume contains a tract, De Mirabilibus Romae, to which also Polo’s name is given. Paper, 14th cent.

Baldelli-Boni and Lazari.

53 ROME Vatican Library, No. 3153 Latin

Pipino’s. Very neat and clean; apparently of 14th cent. Parchment.

54 ROME Vatican Library, No. 5260 Latin

Pipino’s. Very clearly and regularly written. Apparently 15th cent.

55 ROME Barberini Library, XXXIV. 4 Latin

A MS. volume, containing Ricold of Monte Croce; Tractatus divisionis et ambitûs Orbis Terrarum, etc.; Liber de divisione Orbis Terrarum; Libellus de Mirabilibus Urbis Romae; and “Incipit de Morum et Gentium Varietatibus editus a Marcho Polo Veneto.” It is very cramply written, much compressed, and has no division into books or chapters. Ends with “Roscia, provincia maxima.” “Explicit libellus editus a Dno. Marcho Polo de Venetiis de diversis provinciis et gentibus mundi, et earum ritibus et moribus diversis et artibus.” Parchment, large thin 4to, 14th cent.

56 ROME Barberini Library, LVIII. 40 Italian (Venetian dial.)

This is the fragment spoken of, vol. i. p. 101, note. It is a transcript made apparently in the 17th cent., from a MS. written in 1465.

57 ROME Barberini Library, No. 934 Italian

I give this on Baldelli’s authority. I did not see it on my visit to the Barberini.

Baldelli-Boni.

58 ROME Corsini Library, No. 1111 Italian (?)

. . .

Baldelli-Boni.

59 ROME Chigi Library, M. VI. 140 Italian

Bears a note in the handwriting of Pope Alexander VII. (Fabio Chigi of Sienna, 1655–1667), which draws attention to Sienese peculiarities in the language, and assigns the date about 1420 Sm. 4to, paper

Baldelli-Boni.

SPAIN.

60 ESCURIAL Library Latin

Pipino’s

(?)

61 TOLEDO Cathedral Library Latin

Seems to be different from any of the other Latin versions. It has the prefatory address to Domini Imperatores, Reges, Duces, etc. 8vo, paper. Of 15th century.

Baldelli-Boni.

62 TOLEDO Cathedral Library Italian (Venetian)

This is a copy of the Soranzo MS., of which Marsden has given an ample notice after Apostolo Zeno, and which has disappeared from knowledge.

Baldelli-Boni.

SWITZERLAND.

63 BERN Canton Library, No. 125 French

I have examined this MS. minutely, and am satisfied that it is a copy of Pauthier’s C. i.e., No. 20, in our List. Like that (and no other), it bears the certificate regarding the Seigneur de Cepoy. (Vol. i., Int., Notices of Marco in later life.) The MS. is fully described in Sinner’s Catalogue. It is in very beautiful condition, very clearly written on parchment, with all the initials filled up in gold and colours, and with numerous flowered scrolls. It belonged to Bongars, whose autograph is on it: “Bongars—l’a de la courtoisie de Mr. de Superville.” [Parchment, fol., ff. 286, 14th century.—H. Cordier, Odoric, pp. cxiv.–cxv.]

64 BERN Canton Library Italian (Venetian)

In a neat running hand resembling italic type. It is much abridged, especially in the latter part. Small Paper 4to. It is inscribed: “Bongars, de la courtoisie de Mr. Aurel, tiré de la biblioteque de Mr. de Vutron(?).”

65 VEVEY City Museum French

Ernest Muret, Romania, t. xxx. 1901.

GERMANY.

66 MUNICH Royal Library, Codd. Lat. 249 Latin

Pipino’s. Folio, paper, 15th century. Also Pipino’s tract, De Locis Terrae Sctae., and Boccacio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium.

Lazari.

67 MUNICH Royal Library, Codd. Lat. 850 Latin

Pipino’s. Paper, 4to, 15th cent. Also Pipino’s tract, De Locis Terrae Sctae., etc.

Lazari.

68 MUNICH Royal Library? Latin

Excerpta de ejus Historia, principaliter Orientalis

Private Memo.

69 MUNICH Royal Library? Latin

Narrationes ex ejus libro de partibus transmarinis

Private Memo.

70 MUNICH Royal Library, Cod. Germ. 696 German

The version published at Nuremberg in 1477. Paper, 4to. [See Bibliography, p. 554.]

Lazari.

71 MUNICH Royal Library, 252 German

Fragment.

Lazari.

72 MUNICH ? German

The whole.

Private Memo.

73 MUNICH ? German

Translated for Duke William of Bavaria, 1582.

Private Memo.

74 WOLFENBÜTTEL Ducal Library, No. 40, Weissemburg Latin

H. Cordier, Odoric, pp. lxxiv.–lxxv.

75 WOLFENBÜTTEL Ducal Library, No. 41, Weissemburg Latin

H. Cordier, Odoric, pp. lxxv.–vi.

76 BERLIN Royal Library Latin

Pipino’s. Also contains Mappa-Mundi, Expositio Libri Mateorum, etc. I believe this is the Codex Brandenburgensis collated by Andreas Müller in his edition (1671).

Private Memo.

77 BERLIN Royal Library German

A modern MS., said to be a copy of the Wiener MS. (?).

Private Memo.

78 WÜRZBURG Royal Library Latin

Marcus Paulus de Mirabilibus Mundi. Paper.

Pertz, Archiv., viii. 100.

79 GIESSEN University Library, No. 218 Latin

M. Paulus de Venetiis de Regionibus Orientis (with other matter), probably Pipino’s. Paper, folio, 15th cent. I know not if it is a second, which is cited by Mr. Major (Notes on Russia) from Catalogus Codd. MSS. Academ. Gissenses, by J. V. Adrian, Frankfort, 1840, as bound up with Eusebius and entitled M. P. de Ven. de condit. et consuet. Orient. Regionum.

Pertz, Archiv., ix. 576.

80 JENA University Library Latin

Pipino’s. Followed by H. of Alexander

Pertz, Archiv., viii. 698.

81 MENTZ Metropolitan Chapter, No. 52 Latin

Pipino’s. A collection containing in Latin, besides Polo, Odoric, Ricold, and Boldensel. [H. Cordier, Odoric, pp. lxxii.–iv.]

V. F. de Gudenus, Sylloge I. Variorum Diplomatariorum, etc., Frankf. 1728, p. 381.

AUSTRIA.

82 PRAGUE Chapter of St. Vitus Latin

Pipino’s

Pertz, Archiv., ix. 474.

83 VIENNA . . . German?

There appears to be a MS. at Vienna; for above I have registered (No. 77) one at Berlin, which is called a copy of the Vienna MS., but I have not been able to get any particulars regarding it.

SWEDEN.

84 STOCKHOLM Royal Library, French, No. 37 French

This MS., published in facsimile by Baron A. E. Nordenskiöld, belongs to the “Cepoy” type of MSS. Yule wrote in The Athenæum (17th June, 1882): “I gather that it has been produced by partial abridgement from one of the earlier MSS. of the type in question.” And again (p. 766): “It will be seen that though the publication is a beautiful example of facsimile, it contributes, as far as I have been able to examine it, nothing to the amelioration or elucidation of the text or narrative.” The changes and suppressions are much less considerable than in the Paris MSS., 5631 and 2810. Cf L. Delisle, Bib. de l’Ecole des Chartes, XLIII., 1882, pp. 226–235, 424. It is incomplete, and ends: “Et se aucuns disoit quí a luí.”—Cf. Paris MS., 1880. [Our No. 22.] It belonged to the Library of the French King, Charles V. (1364–1380), and later, as marked on the recto of the last folio, “Pour Symon du Solier demorant à Honnefleu,” who was “procureur-syndic des manants et habitants de la ville de Honfleur.”

H. Cordier.

85 STOCKHOLM Royal Library, French, No. 38 French

Translated from the Latin version.

G. Raynaud, Romania, XI.

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ✛ This MS. Fr. 2810 (formerly 8392), known as the Livre des Merveilles, belonged to the Library of John, Duke of Berry, at the Château of Mehun-sur-Yevre, 1416, No. 116 of the catalogue; also No. 196, p. 186, of Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibl. Nationale, par. L. Delisle, III. Count A. de Bastard began publishing some of the miniatures, but did not finish the work. Of the miniatures, Nos. 1, 12, 19, 35, 41, 37, 45, 47, 52, 56, 57, 60, 66, 70, 75, 78, 81 are engraved, pp. 258, 273, 282, 310, 316, 317, 328, 332, 340, 348, 350, 354, 381, 392, 406, 411, 417 in Charton’s Voyageurs du Moyen Age, vol. ii., besides two others, pp. 305, 395, not identified; [in my edition of Odoric, I reproduced Nos. 33, 41, 70, pp. 439, 377, 207.—H. C.]; in the present work, Nos 5, 31, 41, 52, 70 are engraved, vol. i. pp. 15, 244, 369; Nos. 52, 70, vol. ii. pp. 5, 311. Nos. 60 and 75 have been reproduced, pp. 97 and 98 of Faguet’s Hist. de la Littérature Française, 2nd ed., Paris, 1900.

APPENDIX G.—Diagram showing Filiation of Chief MSS. and Editions of Marco Polo.

N.B.—Such MSS. as are not enclosed in Cartouches are hypothetical, or not known now to exist, but are recognized or demonstrable as links in the series. Nos. refer to List of MSS. in App. F. Printed Editions are in small capitals.

MARCO POLO dictates at Genoa, 1298 │ ┌───────┴───────┐ │Rude French MS.│ │ (No. 17), │ ┌────────────────┤ undivided. ├─────────────────┐ │ │Printed 1824 by│ │ │ │ Soc. de Géog. │ │ │ └───────┬───────┘ │ Italian A few Notes │ Supplementary Revised (undivided). by M. Polo. │ Notes by M. Polo. French, ┌────┴──┬────────┐ │ │ │ made for │ │ ┌─────┴────┐ │ ┌─┴─────────┐ │ ┌─── Marco Polo Italian │ │ Italian │ │ │ Venetian │ │ │ before 1307. divided in │ │Crusca MS.│ │ │ (type of │ │ │ │ 3 Books. │ │(No. 40). │ │ │Sloane MS.)│ │ │ French Copy │ │ │ │Undivided.│ │ │ (No. 6.) │ │ │ given to T. │ │ │ └──────────┘ │ └───────────┘ │ │ de Cepoy, │ │ └─────────┐ │ │ │ 1307. │ └───────────┐ │ │ ┌──┘ │ │ ┌───┴───────────┐ │ │ ┌───┴────────────┐ │ │ │ │Latin (MS. No. │ │ │ │Latin, Cicogna’s│ │ │ │ │ 24) Printed │ │ └──┤ MS. (No. 35). │ │ │ │ │1824 by Soc. de│ │ │ Abridged, but │ │ │ │ │Géog. 3 Books. │ │ │with new matter.│ │ │ │ └───────────────┘ │ └───────┬────────┘ │ │ │ ┌───┴──────┐ │ │ ┌────┴───┐ ┌───┴─────┐ │Latin of │ │ │ │ French │ │ French │ ┌────────┤Pipino, in│ │ │ │ MSS. │ │ MS. C, │ │ │ 3 Books. │ │ │ │ A & B │ │Bern, and│ Italian └──────────┘ │ │ │(Nos. 19│ │Bodleian │ or │ │ │ & 18). │ │(Nos. 20,│ PORTUGUESE. ┌────┴────┐ │ └───┬────┘ │63, & 8).│ │ │RAMUSIO’S│ │ │ └──┬──────┘ ┌───┴─────┐ │ PRINTED ├─────┘ │ │ │GRYNÆUS’S│ │ITALIAN, │ │ │ │ LATIN, │ │ 1559. │ │ │ │ 1532. │ └────┬────┘ │ │ └────┬────┘ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ┌─────┴──────┐ ┌────┴────┐ │ ┌───────┴──┐ │ FRENCH │ │MARSDEN’S│ │ │PAUTHIER’S│ │ PRINTED │ │ENGLISH, │ └──┤ FRENCH, │ │ EDITIONS, │ │ 1818. │ │ 1865. │ │OF 1556, &c.│ └─────────┘ └──────────┘ └────────────┘

APPENDIX H.—Bibliography of Marco Polo’s Book.

I.—PRINCIPAL EDITIONS.

We attempt a list of all the editions of Polo; a task for which Sir Henry Yule had no advantages, and which will be found well done for the time in Lazari’s Appendix, based on Marsden. It may be also useful to mention the chief Editions, with their dates.

1477. The first Printed Edition is in German. We give a reduced Facsimile of its Frontispiece. (See p. 555.)

1481. A reproduction of the preceding at Augsburg, in the same volume with the History of Duke Leopold and his Son William of Austria.

About 1490. Pipino’s Latin; the only printed edition of that version. Without place, date, or printer’s name. (See p. 558.)

1496. Edition in Venetian Dialect, printed by J. B. da Sessa.

1500. The preceding reproduced at Brescia (often afterwards in Italy).

1502. Portuguese version from Pipino, along with the Travels of Nicolo Conti. Printed at Lisbon by Valentym Fernandez Alemao (see vol. ii. of this work, p. 295). Stated to have been translated from the MS. presented by Venice to Prince Pedro (vol. i. p. 135.)

1503. Spanish version by Rodrigo de Santaella. Sevilla.

1529. Ditto. Reprinted at Logroño.

1532. Novus Orbis—Basileæ. (See vol. i. p. 95.)

1556. French version from the Novus Orbis.

1559. Ramusio’s 2nd volume, containing his version of Polo, of which we have spoken amply.

1579. First English Version, made by John Frampton, according to Marsden, from the Spanish version of Seville or Logroño.

1625. Purchas’s Pilgrims, vol. iii. contains a very loose translation from Ramusio.

1664. Dutch Version, from the Novus Orbis. Amsterdam.

1671. Andreas Müller of Greiffenhagen reprints the Latin of the Novus Orbis, with a collation of readings from the Pipino MS. at Berlin; and with it the book of Hayton, and a disquisition De Chataiâ. The Editor appears to have been an enthusiast in his subject, but he selected his text very injudiciously. (See vol. i. p. 96.)

1735. Bergeron’s interesting collection of Mediæval Travels in Asia, published in French at the Hague. The Polo is a translation from Müller, and hence is (as we have already indicated) at 6th hand.

1747. In Astley’s Collection, IV. 580 seqq., there is an abstract of Polo’s book, with brief notes, which are extremely acute, though written in a vulgar tone, too characteristic of the time.

1818. Marsden’s famous English Edition.

1824. The Publication of the most valuable MS. and most genuine form of the text, by the Soc. de Géographie of Paris. (See vol. i. p. 83.) It also contains the Latin Text (No. 24 in our list of MSS. App. F.).

1827. Baldelli-Boni published the Crusca MS. (No. 40), and republished the Ramusian Version, with numerous notes, and interesting dissertations. The 2 volumes are cumbered with 2 volumes more containing, as a Preliminary, a History of the Mutual Relations of Europe and Asia, which probably no man ever read. Florence.

1844. Hugh Murray’s Edition. It is, like the present one, eclectic as regards the text, but the Editor has taken large liberties with the arrangement of the Book.

1845. Bürck’s German Version, Leipzig. It is translated from Ramusio, with copious notes, chiefly derived from Marsden and Ritter. There are some notes at the end added by the late Karl Friedrich Neumann, but as a whole these are disappointing.

1847. Lazari’s Italian edition was prepared at the expense of the late Senator T. Pasini, in commemoration of the meeting of the Italian Scientific Congress at Venice in that year, to the members of which it was presented. It is a creditable work, but too hastily got up.

1854. Mr. T. Wright prepared an edition for Bohn’s Antiq. Library. The notes are in the main (and professedly) abridged from Marsden’s, whose text is generally followed, but with the addition of the historical chapters, and a few other modifications from the Geographic Text.

1854–57. Voyageurs Anciens et Modernes, &c. Par M. Ed. Charton. Paris. An interesting and creditable popular work. Vol. ii. contains Marco Polo, with many illustrations, including copies from miniatures in the Livre des Merveilles. (See list in App. F. p. 528.)

1863. Signor Adolfo Bartoli reprinted the Crusca MS. from the original, making a careful comparison with the Geographic Text. He has prefixed a valuable and accurate Essay on Marco Polo and the Literary History of his Book, by which I have profited.

1865. M. Pauthier’s learned edition.

1871. First edition of the present work.

1873. First publication of Marco Polo in Russian.

1875. Second edition of this work.

1882. Facsimile of the French Stockholm MS. by Baron A. E. Nordenskiöld.

II.—BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTED EDITIONS.

A.—GERMAN EDITIONS.

1.—1. Nuremberg ... 1477.

The first translation of Marco Polo’s Book was printed in German, at Nuremberg, in 1477.

Collation: 58 ff. folio without pagination and without signatures.

Verso f. 1: Frontispiece: Portrait of Marco Polo with this inscription round the border: Das ist der edel Ritter. Marcho polo von [right] Venedig der grost landtfarer. der vns beschreibt die grossen wunder der welt die er selber gesehenn hat. Von dem auffgang pis zu dem nydergãg der sunnẽ. der gleychẽ vor nicht meer gehört seyn. [See p. 555.]

Recto f. 2, begins:

⍧ Hie hebt sich an das puch dés edelñ Ritters vñ landtfarers ‖ Marcho polo. In dem er schreibt die grossen wunderlichen ‖ ding dieser welt. Sunderlichen von den grossen kũnigen vnd ‖ keysern die da herschen in den selbigen landen | vnd von irem ‖ volck vnd seiner gewonheit da selbs.

Verso f. 58: ⍧ Hie endet sich das puch des edelñ Ritters und lañdtfarerz ‖ Marcho polo | das do sagt võ mangerley wunder der landt ‖ vñ lewt | vñ wie er die selbigen gesehen vñ durch faren hat ‖ von dẽ auffgang pisz zu dem nydergang der sũnẽ Seliglich.

⍧ Disz hat gedruckt Fricz Creũszner zu Nurm̃berg Nach cristi ‖ gepurdt Tausent vierhundert vñ im siben vñ sibenczigtē iar.

The copy which I have examined is in the Grenville Library, No. 6787. (Vide Bib. Grenvilliana, Part II. p. 305.) When Marsden edited his Marco Polo, Grenville did not possess this edition. The only known copy was in the Vienna Imperial Library, but was without the portrait. Grenville had made a transcript spoken of by Marsden, pp. lxx.–lxxi., which we describe infra. “When Mr. Marsden,” says Grenville in a MS. note at the beginning of this fine volume, “published his translation of this work, the only known copy of this first German Edition was in the Imperial Library at Vienna, and I had a literal transcript made from it: Since that time a second copy was found and sold by Payne and Foss to Lord Spencer: and now I have purchased from Leipsick a third [the present] beautiful copy. I know of no fourth copy. The copy at Vienna wants the portrait.”

Vide Bib. Spenceriana, vol. vi. p. 176.

Other copies are to be found at the Imperial Library, Vienna, the Royal Library, Berlin, the Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg; a sixth copy was in the Crawford Collection (London, June, 1887, 1359) with the portrait, and was purchased by B. Quaritch. [See H. Cordier, Cent. of Marco Polo, p. 41.]

—The copy we just spoke of has No. LII. in the Grenville collection, British Museum; it is a folio of 114 pages numbered with a pencil; bound with the arms of the Rᵗ. Honbˡᵉ. Thoˢ. Grenville. Page 114, the exactness of this copy is thus certified: “Apographum collatum cum prototypo, quod in Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensi adservatur. Illo quidem, qui descripsit, recitante ex prototypo, me vero hoc apographum inspectante. Respondet pagina paginae, versui versus & syllaba syllabae. Vindobonae die 29. Augusti 1817. B. Kopitar, Biblioth. Palatinae Vindobon. scriptor.”

With this manuscript is bound a letter addressed to Mr. Grenville by the Chevalier Scotti, who had the copy made; it is dated “Vienne 20 nmbre 1817,” and ends with this post-scriptum: “N. B. Comme cette Edition fort peu connue du 477. est une édition non seulement précieuse, mais à la vérité fort rare aussi, elle avoit été prise par les François et portée à Paris la dernière fois qu’ils ont été à Vienne. Elle y a été rendue avec tout le reste qu’on avoit emporté à la suite des heureux succès des Coilisés, auxquels L’immortel Wellington a tant contribué en y mettant la dernière couronne dont les lauriers resteront à jamais inflétrissables.”

2.—2. Augsburg ... 1481.

—The second German edition of Marco Polo has been reprinted at Augsburg in 1481; it is as scarce as the first edition; I have examined the copy in the Imperial Library at St. Petersburg.

Collation: 60 ff. folio, without pagination nor signatures.

Recto f. 1: End of the story of William of Austria, after which is printed Marco Polo.

Verso f. 1: Frontispiece: Portrait of Marco Polo coloured with this inscription round the border: Das ist der edel ritter Marcho polo von Venedig. [right] der grõst landfarer. der vns beschreibt die grossen wunder der welt die er selber gese hen hat. Von dem auffgang biss zu dem nidergang der sunnen | der geleich vor nit meer gehört seind.

Recto f. 2, begins:

Hie hept sich an das buch des edlẽ ritters vñ landtfarers Marcho polo. in dem er schreibt die grossen wunderlichen ding diser welt. sunderlichen võ den grossen künigen vnd keisern | die da herschen in den selbigen landen vnd von jrem volck vnnd seiner gewonheÿt da selbs.

Recto f. 60: Hie enndet sich herczog Wilhalm von österreich vñ das buch des edeln ritters vñ landtfarers Marcho polo | das da sagt von mengerleÿ wunder der land vnd leüt. vnd wie er die selbigẽ gesehen vñ durch faren hat von dem auffgang biss zu dem nÿdergang d’sunnen Seligklich. Diss hat gedruckt Anthonius Sorg zu Augspurg Nach xp̃i gepurt tausent vier hundert vnd jm lxxxj. jare.

No. fig. in the text.

3.—3. Die New Welt der landschaften vnnd Insulen ... gedruckt zu Strassburg durch Georgen Vlricher ... An. M.D.XXXIIII, folio.

Ff. 103–133; Marr Paulen des Venedigers Erst Buch | von den Morgenlandern.—Ff. 134–152: Haithon des Armeniers Premonstratensis ordens | von den Tartern.

Translated from the Novus Orbis Regionvm.—See 11–12.

4.—4.* M. Polus. Reise in die Tartarey und zum Grossen Chan von Chatai, uebersetzt. v. H. Megisser. Altenburg, 1609, 8vo.

H. Ternaux-Compans, Bibliothèque asiatique et africaine, No. 1031.—[Notwithstanding all my researches, I could not find this edition in any private or public library in Germany.—H. C.]

5.—5. Chorographia Tartariæ: ‖ Oder ‖ Warhafftige Beschreibung der ‖ vberaus wunderbahrlichen Reise | ‖ welche der Edle vnd weit erfahrne Venedigi—‖ sche GENTILHUOMO MARCUS POLUS, mit dem ‖ zunahmen MILLION, noch vor vierthalb hundert Jah=‖ren | in die Oriental vnd Morgenlãnder | Sonderlich aber in ‖ die Tartarey | zu dem grossen Can von Cathai | zu ‖ Land vnd Wasser Persönlich verrichtet: ‖ Darinnen ausführlich vnd vmbständ=‖lich erzehlet werden | viel zuvor vnbekandte Landschaff=‖ten | Königreich vnd Städt | sampt dero Sitten vnd ‖ Gebräuchen | vnd andern seltzamen Sachen: ‖ Die Er | als der erste Erfinder der newen Welt | gegen ‖ Orient | oder den Ost Indien | gesehen vnd erfahren. ‖ In drey vnterschiedliche Bücher abge=‖heilet: sampt einem Discurs Herrn Johan Bapti=‖stae Rhamnusij | der Herrschafft zu Vene=‖dig geheimen Secretarij | von dem ‖ Leben des Autoris. ‖ Alles aus dem Original | so in Italianischer ‖ Sprach beschrieben | treulich vnd mit fleis ver=‖ teutschet | auch mit Kupfferstücken ‖ geziehret | durch ‖ HIERONYMUM MEGISERUM.—‖ Anno M. DC. XI. ‖ Leipzig | in vorlegung Henning Grossen des Jüngern. Small 8vo. pp. 354 (last page numbered by mistake 351) + 36 prel. ff. for the tit., preface, etc., and 7 ff. at the end for the table.

Plates.—See p. 350: Alphabetum Tartaricúm, et Oratio Dominica Tartaricé.

6.—6. Die Reisen des Marco Polo, oder Marcus Paulus, eines Venetianers, in die Tartarey, im Jahre 1272. (Allgemeine Historie der Reisen, Leipzig, 1750, VII, pp. 423 et seq.)

7.—7. Marco Paolo’s ‖ Reise in den Orient | ‖ während der Jahre 1272 bis 1295. ‖—Nach den ‖ vorzüglichsten Original=Ausgaben verdeutscht, ‖ und ‖ mit einem Kommentar begleitet ‖ von ‖ Felix Peregrin.‖—Ronneburg und Leipzig, ‖ bei August Schumann, 1802, 8vo., pp. vi–248.

P. 248: Eisenberg, gedruckt bei Johann Wilhelm Schöne.

8.—8. Die Reisen des Venezianers Marco Polo im dreizehnten Jahrhundert.—Zum ersten Male vollständig nach den besten Ausgaben Deutsch mit einem Kommentar von August Bürck.—Nebst Zusätzen und Verbesserungen von Karl Friedrich Neumann. Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1845, 8vo, pp. xvi–631.

—Di un frammento inedito di Marco Foscarini intorno ai Viaggiatori Veneziani e di una nuova traduzione in tedesco dei Viaggi di Marco Polo. [By Tommaso Gar] (Archivio Storico Italiano, Appendice, T. IV, Firenze, 1847, pp. 89 et seq.)

9.—9. Die Reisen des Venezianers Marco Polo im dreizehnten Jahrhundert.—Zum ersten Male vollständig nach den besten Ausgaben Deutsch mit einem Kommentar von August Bürck. Nebst Zusätzen und Verbesserungen von Karl Friedrich Neumann. Zweite unveränderte Ausgabe.—Leipzig, Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner, 1855, 8vo, pp. xvi–631.

B.—LATIN EDITIONS.

10.—1. Commence; ⍧ In nomine dn̄i nri ihū xp̄i filij dei viui et veri amen. Incipit plogus ī libro dn̄i marci pauli de venecijs de cōsuetudinibus et cōdicionibus orientaliū regionū.

Then the declaration of “Frater franciscus pepur. de bononia frm̃ p̄dicatorū” who translated the work from the vulgar language into Latin.

End p. 147: Explicit liber dn̄i marci de venecijs Deo gracias.

Collation: 74 f. or 148 pages; the last is blank, 4to, no title, no pagination; signatures p. 1, a. 1 = p. 141, k. 3 (a-h, par 8; i, by 4; k, by 6); maximum 33 lines by page; [1485?].

It is interesting to note that Christopher Columbus had a copy of this edition of Marco Polo, now kept in the Colombina at Seville. The margins of the following folios contain the autograph notes of the great navigator:

9 v. 31 r. & v. 46 v. 55 r. & v. 66 r. & v. 13 v. 36 v. 47 r. & v. 57 r. & v. 67 r. & v. 15 r. & v. 38 v. 48 r. & v. 59 r. & v. 68 r. & v. 17 v. 39 r. 49 r. & v. 60 r. & v. 69 r. & v. 18 r. & v. 40 r. & v. 50 r. & v. 61 r. & v. 70 r. & v. 19 r. 41 r. 51 r. & v. 62 r. & v. 71 r. & v. 23 r. & v. 42 r. & v. 52 r. & v. 63 r. 72 r. & v. 24 r. & v. 43 r. & v. 53 r. & v. 64 v. 73 r. & v. 25 r. 44 r. & v. 54 r. 65 r. & v. 74 r.

Cf. Simón de la Rosa y Lopéz, pp. XXIII, XLIII–XLIV of vol. II, Sevilla, 1891, 4to: Biblioteca Colombina.—Catálogo de sus libros impresos publicado por primera vez en virtud de acuerdo del Excmo. é Ilmo. Sr. Déan y Cabildo de la Santa Metropolitana y Patriarcal Iglesia de Sevilla bajo la immediata dirección de su Bibliotecario el Ilmo. Sr. Dr. D. Servando Arbolí y Faraudo Dignidad de Capellán Mayor de San Fernando.—See also H. Harrisse, Bibl. americana vetustissima.—Additions, p. XII.

“Edition fort rare, dit Brunet, et la plus ancienne que l’on ait de cette version latine de Marco Polo, faite par Pipino, vers 1320. Elle est imprimée avec les mêmes caractères, que l’Itinerarium de Joan. de Mandeville, c’est-à-dire par Gerard de Leeu, à Anvers, vers 1485, et non pas à Rome et à Venise, comme on l’avait supposé. Vend. 4 liv. 14 sh. 6d. Hanrott; 7 liv. Libri en 1859. (Choicer portion, 1562.)” Brunet writes elsewhere (cf. Mandeville par H. Cordier) about Mandeville from the same press: “... La souscription que nous allons rapporter semble prouver qu’elle a été imprimée à Venise; cependant Panzer, IX, 200, la croit sortie des presses de Theodoric Martin, à Aloste, et M. Grenville en trouvait les caractères conformes à ceux que Gérard Leeu a employés à Anvers, de 1484–1485. M. Campbell (Ann. de la typ. néerlandaise) la donne à Gérard Leeu, et fixe la date de l’impression à la première année du séjour de ce typographe à Anvers, après son départ de Gouda.”

It is certain from the use of the signatures =a=, =aa=, =a=, and the similitude of the type of the three works, that the Mandeville, the Ludolphe, and the Marco Polo come from the same printing office, and have been printed together as it seems to be proved by the copy of the Sunderland Library, which was complete and contained the three works.

Lazari, p. 460, writes: “Jo. de Mandeville itineraria: Dom. Ludolph. de itinere ad Terram Sanctam: M. Paul. Venet. de regionibus orientalibus. Liber rariss. Zwollis, 1483, in–4.

“Leggiamo questa nota nell’opera Bibliotheca Beauclerkiana or Sale catalogue of the books of Topham Beauclerk’s Library, London, 1781, P. II., p. 15, n. 430. Marsden però ritiene celarsi sotto quell’erronea indicazione la seguente prima edizione [s. a., 4to] latina de’ viaggi di M. Polo. Egli istitui molte ricerche per rinvenire in Inghilterra quell’esemplare, ma non gli è stato possibile di averne traccia.”

11.—2. Marci Pavli Veneti, de Regionibvs orientalibvs Libri III. (Novus Orbis Regionum).

Editions of 1532, 1537, 1555.—See 3-3.

12.—3. Marci Pavli ‖ Veneti Itinerarivm, ‖ seu de rebus Orientalibus ‖ Libri tres. ‖ Helmaestadii, ‖ M.D. LXXXV, 4to.

Part of the Collection of Reineccius:

—Reineri Reinecii ‖ Polyhistoris clarissimi ‖ Historia O—‖ rientalis: ‖ Hoc est ‖ Rerum in oriente à Christianis, Saracenis, Tur-‖cis & Tartaris gestarum diuersorum ‖ Auctorum. ‖ Totum opus in duas partes tribulum est, ‖ contenta in singulis sequens ‖ pagina indicat. ‖ Helmaestadii, ‖ Typis Iacobi Lucij, impensis heredum Ludolphi ‖ Brandes. Anno 1602, 4to.

Verso of the title:

Primus Tomus continet:

—Chronicon Hierosolomytanum, cum appen-‖dice Reineri Reineccij & Chronologia ‖ Henr. Meibomij.

In Altero sunt:

—Vita Henrici VII. Imp. auctore Conrado Vec—‖erio.

—Vita Caroli IIII. Imp. ab ipso Carolo con-‖scripta.

—Historia Orientalis Haythoni Armenij.

—Pauli Veneti Itinerarium.

—Fragmentum de reb. orientalibus ex Speculo ‖ Historiali Vincentij Beluacensis.

—Appendix ad Expositiones Haythoni auctore ‖ Rein. Reineccio.

The colophon at the end of the first part has the date of 1584; at the end of the second part, 1585.

—This Marco Polo was reprinted according to Lazari, p. 465, in 1602.

13.—4. MARCI PAULI VENETI, ‖ Historici fidelissimi juxta ac praestantissimi, ‖ de ‖ REGIONIBUS ‖ orientalibus ‖ libri III. ‖ Cum Codice Manuscripto Biblio-‖thecae Electoralis Brandenburgicae collati, exq’; ‖ eo adjectis Notis plurimùm tum suppleti ‖ tum illustrati. ‖ Accedit, propter cognationem materiae, ‖ HAITHONI ARMENI HISTORIA ‖ orientalis: quae & de Tartaris ‖ inscribitur; ‖ Itemque ‖ ANDREAE MÜLLERI, Greiffenhagii, ‖ de CHATAJA, cujus praedictorum Auctorum uter-‖ que mentionem facit, DISQUISITIO; inq́ue ipsum ‖ Marcum Paulum Venetum PRAEFATIO, & ‖ locupletissimi INDICES. ‖ Coloniae Brandenburgicae, ‖—Ex Officina Georgii Schulzii, Typogr. Elect. ‖ Anno M. DC. LXXI. 4to.

Contains:

Engraved frontispiece.

Dedicatory Epistle, 3 ff. not numbered.

Andreæ MÜLLERI Greiffenhagii, in Marci Pauli Veneti Chorographiam, Praefatio, pp. 26.

Doctorum Virorum De hoc Marci Pauli Veneti Opere Testimonia, ac Judicia ... (Franciscus Pipinus, etc.) 8 ff. n. ch.

MARCI PAULI Veneti De Regionibus orientalibus Libri III, pp. 167.

Index primus Historicus, Sive alphabetica Recensio omnium eorum, quae Autor passim observavit, atque aliàs memoranda reliquit, 22 ff. not numbered.

Index secundus Chronographicus, qui Annos & cujuslibet anni NOTABILIA (quae quidem Autor designavit) continet, 1 page.

Index tertius Itinerarius, Ubi Loca recensentur, quae auctor pertransiit, & Distantiae Locorum, quas ipse annotavit, 2 ff. not numbered.

Index quartus Glossarius, Estq́ue vocum exoticarum, quas Autor ipse interpretatus est, 1 half p.

Emendanda in Marco Paulo Veneto, quaeq́; ad hunc pertinent: aut ad eadem Addenda, 1 f. not numbered.

HAITHONI Armeni ‖ Historia ori-‖entalis: ‖ Qvae eadem & De Tartaris ‖ inscribitur. ‖ Anno ‖ CIↃ. IↃC. LXXI, 2 ff. not numbered + pp. 107.

Index, 7 pp. not numbered.

Andreae MÜLLERI, ‖ Greiffenhagii, ‖ DISQUISITIO ‖ Geographica & Historica, ‖ De ‖ CHATAJA, ‖ In Quâ ‖ I. Praecipuè Geographorum nobilis ‖ illa Controversia: Quaenam CHATAJA sit, & an ‖ sit idem ille terrarum tractus, quem Sinas, & vul-‖ gó Chinam vocant, aut pars ejus aliqua? ‖ latissimè tractatur; ‖ 2. Eâdem verò operâ pleraque rerum, quae unquam ‖ de Chataja, deq́ue Sinis memorabilia ‖ fuerunt, atque etiam nunc sunt, compendiosè ‖ enarrantur. ‖—Ecclesiastae I. v. 15. ‖: לתסטת תסות לא יוכל ‖ Senec. de Beneficiis VI. I. ‖ Etiam quod discere supervacuum est prodest ‖ cognoscere. ‖ —Berolini, Typis Rungianis. ‖ Anno M. DC. LXX, 2 ff. not numbered + pp. 115 on 2 col.

C.—ITALIAN EDITIONS.

14.—1. Marco Polo da Venie ‖ sia de le merauegliose ‖ cose del Mondo.

Below this title the mark of the printer SESSA: a cat holding a mouse in its mouth with the initials I and B on the right and on the left of the coat of arms (with a ducal crown above) which exhibits this group, and S at foot. Verso of f. 83:

Finisse lo libro de Marco Polo da Venie ‖ sia dele merauegliose cose del mōdo Im ‖ presso in Venetia per zoanne Baptista ‖ da Sessa Milanese del M. ccccxcvi. ‖ adi. xiii. del mese de Iunio regnā ‖ do lo Illustrissimo Principe Au ‖ gustino Barbadico inclyto ‖ Duce di Venetia.

Recto of folio 84: “Registro. a b c d e f g h i k l Tutti questi sono quaderni excepto l chie duerno”; audessous le monogramme de l’imprimeur en blanc sur fond noir.—Verso of folio 84 is blank.

The copy which I have examined is in the Grenville Library, No. 6666. It is in fine condition and complete, notwithstanding what the Sobolewski Sale Catalogue says to the contrary (No. 1730): it is a small 8vo ff. 84; each quire containing, as is indicated by the register, eight sheets, except quire l, which has but four.

Grenville added to his copy the following note: “This appears to be the first edition printed in the original Italian.—The Abbé Morelli who sent me this book from Venice had found great difficulty in procuring a copy for the Library of St. Marc.—Panzer III. 396, refers only to the mention made of it by Denis. Supp. I, pᵉ 415. I know of no other copy in England....”

Lazari, p. 460, says: “Prima e rarissima edizione del compendio veneziano. Un capitolo che parla di Trebisonda, tratto dal viaggio di Fr. Odorico, precede il testo del Polo mutilo e scorrettissimo: quel capitolo non forma però parte d’esso, come nelle molte ristampe di questo compendio.”

See Odoric de Pordenone, par Henri Cordier, p. 9.

Ternaux-Compans (29) mentions an edition of Sessa of 1486, which does not seem to exist.

15—2. Marco Polo da Vene ‖ sia de le maraueliose ‖ cose del Mondo. ‖ Small 8vo.; 64 ff. non chif., sig. a—i: a—g by 8 = 56 ff., h and i by 4 = 8 ff., total 64 ff.

Collation:

Recto 1st f.: border; vignette; above the vig. title ut supra.

Verso 1st f. begins: Tractato delle più maraueliose cose e delle piu notabile: che si ri ‖ trouano nelle ꝑte del mōdo. Re ‖ dutte & racolte sotto breuita ...

Recto f. 64: Impressa la presente opera per el Venerabile mi ‖ ser pre Batista da Farfengo nella Magnifica cita de ‖ Bressa. adi. xx. December. M. CCCCC. ‖

“Ristampa dell’edizione 1496, leggiermente modificata nella introduzione. Rarissima.” (Lazari, p. 460.)

16.—3. Marco Polo da Veniesia ‖ de le marauegliose co= ‖ se del Mondo. small 8vo, 56 ff. not numbered, sig. a—g by 8.

Collation: title ut supra: Printer’s mark: a cat holding a mouse in its mouth, M O on the sides; S at foot.—Ends, recto f. 56; ¶ Impresso in Venetia per Melchior Sessa. An‖no Dñi. M. CCCCC VIII. Adi. xxi. zugno.

17.—4. Marco Polo ‖ Venetiano ‖ in CVI si tratta le meravi‖gliose cose del mondo per lui uedute: del costu=‖me di uarij paesi, dello stranio uiuere di ‖ quelli; della descrittione de diuersi ‖ animali, e del trouar dell’o=‖ro, dell’argento, e delle ‖ pietre preciose, co=‖sa non men uti‖le, che bel‖la. [Vignette.] ‖ In Venetia, 8vo; 56 ff. n. ch., sig. a—g by 8.

At the end: Finite é lo libro de Marco Polo da Venetia delle: ‖ marauegliose cose del mondo. ‖ In Venetia per Matthio Pagan, in Frezaria, ‖ al segno della Fede. 1555.

“Ristampa dell’edizione 1496. La edizione 1555 fu riprodotta dello stesso Mathio Pagan senza data.” (Lazari, p. 463.)

A copy s. d. exists in the Grenville Library (304. a. 23), this is the title of it:

18.—5. Marco Polo ‖ Venetiano. ‖ In cvi si tratta le meravi‖gliose cose del mondo per lui uedute, del costu‖me di uarij paesi, dello stranio uiuere di ‖ quelli; della descrittione de diuersi ‖ animali, e del trouar dell’oro ‖ dell’argento, e delle pie‖tre preciose, cosa ‖ non men utile, ‖ che bel‖la. In Venetia. s. d., 8vo., 56 ff. not numbered, sig. a—g by 8. At the end: In Venetia per Mathio Pagan, in Freza‖ria, al Segno della Fede.—On the title M. Pagan’s mark.

19.—6. ¶ Opera stampata nouamē‖te delle marauigliose co=‖se del mondo: comin=‖ciādo da Leuante a ponente fin al me‖zo di. El mondo nouo & isole & lo=‖chi incogniti & siluestri abondā‖ti e sterili & doue abōda loro ‖ & largento & Zoglie & p̄ie ‖ tre p̄ciose & animali & ‖ mōstri spaurosi & do‖ue manzano car=‖ne humana e ‖ i gesti & vi=‖uer & co=‖stumi ‖ de quelli paesi cosa certamēte molto cu=‖riosa de intendere & sapere.

Small 8vo, 56 ff. not numbered, sig. a—g by 8. At foot of recto f. 56: ¶Finito lo libro de Marco Polo da Venetia de le ‖ marauegliose cose del mondo. ‖ ¶ Stampata in Venetia per Paulo Danza Anno. ‖ Dñi M. D. xxxiij. Adi 10 Febraro. ‖

Reprint of the 1496 edition.

20.—7. De i Viaggi di Messer Marco Polo Gentil’hvomo Venetiano (Ramusio, II, 1606.)

See the former editions of Ramusio.

21.—8. Marco Polo ‖ Venetiano, ‖ Delle Merauiglie del Mondo ‖ per lui vedute; ‖ Del Costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio ‖ viuer di quelli. ‖ Della Descrittione de diuersi Animali. ‖ Del trouar dell’Oro, & dell’Argento. ‖ Delle Pietre Preciose. ‖ Cosa non meno vtile, che bella. ‖ Di nouo Ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine ‖ suo vero nel dire. ‖ In Treuigi, Ad instantia di Aurelio Reghet‖tini Libraro. M DXC. 8vo, 57 ff. numbered, a−g ✕ 8 = 56 ff. + h ✕ 1 = 57 ff.; vignette on the title; 1 wood-cut, not inserted in the text.

The wood-cut is not to be found in the copy of the British Museum, G bbb 8.

22.—9. Marco Polo Venetiano, Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per lui vedute; Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli. Della Descrittione de diuersi Animali. Del trouar Dell’Oro, & dell’Argento. Delle Pietre Preciose. Cosa non meno vtile, che bella, Di nouo Ristampato, & Osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. In Venetia, Appresso Marco Claseri, M DXCVII, 8vo, pp. 128; no cut.

23.—10. Marco Polo ‖ Venetiano, ‖ Delle Maraviglie del Mondo ‖ per lui vedute. ‖ Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio viuer ‖ di quelli. ‖ Della Descrittione de diuersi Animali. ‖ Del trouar dell’Oro, & dell’Argento. ‖ Delle Pietre Pretiose. ‖ Cosa non meno vtile, che bella. ‖ Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo ‖ vero nel dire. ‖ [fleuron] In Venetia, M DCII. ‖ Appresso Paolo Vgolino, small 8vo pp. 104; no cut.

Page 104: Finito è lo Libro di Marco Polo da Venetia delle ‖ Marauigliose cose del Mondo.

This edition differs from the following bearing the same date:

24.—11. Marco Polo Venetiano, Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per lui vedute. Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio viuere di quelli. Della Descritione de diuersi Animali. Del trouar Dell’oro, & dell’Argento. Delle Pietre Preciose. Cosa non meno vtile, che bella. Di nouo Risstampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. In Venetia. M DCII. Appresso Paulo Vgolino, 8vo, pp. 128; on the title, vig. exhibiting David carrying the head of Goliath; no cut.

25.—12. Marco Polo Venetiano, Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per lui vedute. Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli. Della Descrittione de diuersi Animali. Dell trouar dell’Oro, & dell’Argento. Delle Pietre Preciose. Cosa non meno vtile, che bella. Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. Con licenza de’ Superiori, & Priuilegio. In Venetia, M.DC. XXVI. Appresso Ghirardo, & Iseppo Imberti, small 8vo, pp. 128; 1 wood-cut, not inserted in the text.

26.—13. Marco Polo ‖ Venetiano. ‖ Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per ‖ lui vedute. ‖ Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli. ‖ De la Descrittione de diuersi Animali. ‖ Del trouar dell’Oro, & de l’Argento. ‖ Delle Pietre preciose. ‖ Cosa non meno utile, che bella. ‖ Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine ‖ suo vero nel dire. ‖ In Venetia, & poi in Treuigi per Angelo Righettini. 1267 [read 1627]. ‖ Con Licenza de’ Superiori, small 8vo, pp. 128; 1 wood-cut, not inserted in the text.

27.—14. Marco Polo ‖ Venetiano. ‖ Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per ‖ lui vedute. ‖ Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli. ‖ De la Descrittione de diuersi Animali. ‖ Del trouar dell’Oro, & de l’Argento. ‖ Delle Pietre preciose. ‖ Cosa non meno utile, che bella. Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo ‖ vero nel dire. ‖ In Treuigi, Appresso Girolamo Righettini: 1640. ‖ Con Licenza de’ Superiori, small 8vo, 128 pages with a vignette on the title, printer’s mark; wood-cut f. 2 verso.

28.—15.—* In Trevigi M. DC. LVII., appresso Girolamo Righettini, 8vo.

29.—16. Marco Polo Venetiano. Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per lui vedute. I. Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello strano viuer di quelli. II. De la Descrittione de diuersi Animali. III. Del trouar dell’Oro, & dell’Argento. IV. Delle Pietre pretiose. Cosa non meno vtile, che bella. Si nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. In Trevigi, Per il Righettini. M. DC. LXV. Con Licenza de’ Svperiori, small 8vo, 128 pp. with a wood-cut.

30.—17. Marco Polo Venetiano Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per lui vedute. I. Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello strano viuer di quelli. II. Della Descrittione de diuersi Animali. III. Del trouar dell’Oro, & dell’Argento. IV. Delle Pietre pretiose. Cosa non meno vtile, che bella. Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. In Trevigi, Per il Reghettini. M. DC. LXXII. Con Licenza de’ Svperiori, small 8vo. pp. 128; 1 cut not inserted in the text.

These various editions are reprints of the text of 1496.

31.—18. Il Milione ‖ di Marco Polo ‖ Testo di lingua ‖ del secolo decimoterzo ‖ ora per la prima volta ‖ pubblicato ed illustrato ‖ dal Conte ‖ Gio. Batt. Baldelli Boni. ‖ Tomo primo ‖ Firenze ‖ Da’ Torchi di Giuseppe Pagani ‖ M. DCCCXXVII. ‖ Con approv. e privilegio, 4to, pp. XXXII.−CLXXV.−234 + 1 f. not numbered for the index.

INDICE: Vita di Marco Polo, P. I.—Sommario Cronologico della Vita del Polo, P. XXV.—Storia del Milione, P. I.—Illustrazione della Tela del Salone dello Scudo, P. CV.—Descrizione dell’Atlante Cinese, posseduto dalla Magliabechiana, P. CIX.—Schiarimento relativo all’età dell’Atlante Cinese, P. CXXI.—Notizia dei Manoscritti del Milione, di cui si è fatto uso nell’Opera, o veduti, o fatti riscontrare, P. CXXIII.—Della Porcellana. Discorso, P. CXXXVII.—Del Portulano Mediceo, e delle Scoperte dei Genovesi nell’Atlantico. Discorso, P. CLIII.—Voci del Milione di Marco Polo, citate dal Vocabolario della Crusca, P. CLXXIII.—Voci tratte dal Testo del Polo, e da citarsi dal Vocabolario della Crusca, P. CLXXIV. —Il Milione di Marco Polo, TESTO DELLA CRUSCA, P. I.

—Il Milione ‖ di ‖ Messer Marco Polo ‖ Viniziano ‖ Secondo la lezione Ramusiana ‖ illustrato e comentato ‖ dal Conte ‖ Gio. Batt. Baldelli Boni ‖ Tomo Secondo ‖ Firenze ‖ Da’ Torchi di Giuseppe Pagani ‖ M DCCC XXVII. ‖ Con approv. e privilegio, 4to, pp. XXVI.–514 + 2 ff. n. ch.

INDICE: Dichiarazione al Libro Primo, P. 1.—Proemio di Fra Pipino al Milione, P. 3.—TESTO RAMUSIANO del Milione. Libro Primo, P. 5—Dichiarazione al Libro Secondo, per rischiarare le Legazioni di Marco Polo, P. 147.—Libro Secondo, P. 153.—Dichiarazione alla parte seconda del Libro Secondo. Delia Lingua Cinese, P. 223.—Libro Terzo, P. 357.—Aggiunte e Correzioni, P. 481.

—Storia ‖ delle ‖ Relazioni vicendevoli ‖ Dell’Europa e dell’Asia ‖ dalla Decadenza di Roma ‖ fino alla ‖ distruzione del Califfato ‖ del Conte ‖ Gio. Batt. Baldelli Boni. ‖ Parte Prima ‖ Firenze ‖ Da’ Torchi di Giuseppe Pagani ‖ M DCCC XXVII. ‖ Con approv. e privilegio, 4to, 4 ff. n. c. for the tit. and the ded.: “A Sua Altezza Imperiale e Reale Leopoldo Secondo Principe Imperiale d’Austria ...” + pp. 466.

—Parte Seconda ‖ Firenze ‖ Da’ Torchi di Giuseppe Pagani ‖ M DCCC XXVII. ‖ Con approv. e privilegio, 4to, pp. 467 to 1004 + 1 f. n. ch.

Eighty copies of Baldelli-Boni’s work were printed on large paper, and two on vellum.

Two maps generally bound apart accompany the work.

32.—19. I Viaggi in Asia in Africa, nel mare dell’Indie descritti nel secolo XIII da Marco Polo Veneziano. Testo di lingua detto Il Milione illustrato con annotazioni. Venezia, dalla tipografia di Alvisopoli, M DCCC XXIX, 2 parts, 8vo, pp. xxi + 1–189, 195–397.

“Ristampa del Testo di Crusca procurata da B. Gamba il quale vi appose piccole note a pie di pagina.” (Lazari, p. 470.)

“Il en a été tiré 100 exemplaires, in-8, auxquels est jointe la carte géographique qui fait partie de l’ouvrage de Zurla. Il y en a aussi des exemplaires in-8, très grand Pap., et sur des papiers de différentes couleurs.” (Brunet.)

33.—20. Il Libro di Marco Polo intitolato il Milione. (Relazioni di Viaggiatori, Venezia, co’ tipi del Gondoliere, M DCCC XLI, I, pp. 1–231.)

Reprint of the Crusca Text.—See Baldelli-Boni, supra 31–18.

Gondoliere’s Collection form vol. i. and ii. of the class XI. of the Biblioteca classica italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti disposta e illustrata da Luigi Carrer.

34.—21. I Viaggi in Asia in Africa, nel mare dell’Indie descritti nel secolo XIII da Marco Polo Veneziano testo di lingua detto Il Milione illustrato con annotazioni. Volume unico. Parma, per Pietro Fiaccadori, M DCCC XLIII, Small 8vo, pp. IV.–308.

Reprint of the Crusca Text.

35.—22. I Viaggi in Asia, in Africa, nel mare dell’Indie descritti nel secolo XIII da Marco Polo Veneziano. Testo di lingua detto Il Milione. Udine, Onofrio Turchetto, Tip. edit. 1851, 16mo, pp. X.–207.

36.—23. I Viaggi ‖ di ‖ Marco Polo ‖ Veneziano ‖ tradotti per la prima volta dall’originale francese ‖ di Rusticiano di Pisa ‖ e corredati d’illustrazioni e di documenti ‖ da Vincenzo Lazari ‖ pubblicati per cura ‖ di Ludovico Pasini ‖ membro eff. e segretario dell’I. R. Istituto Veneto. ‖ Venezia ‖ M DCCC XLVII, 8vo, pp. LXIV.–484, map.

Verso of the title: “Coi Tipi di Pietro Naratovitch.”

See pp. 447–471, Bibliografia.—Pp. 473–484, Indice Alfabetico delle Materie.

37.—24. I Viaggi di Marco Polo secondo la lezione del Codice Magliabechiano più antico reintegrati col testo francese a stampa per cura di Adolfo Bartoli. Firenze, Felice Le Monnier, 1863, small 8vo, pp. LXXXIII.–439.

38.—25. Il Milione ossia Viaggi in Asia, in Africa e nel Mar delle Indie descritti nel secolo XIII da Marco Polo Veneziano. Torino, Tip. dell’oratorio di S. Franc. di Sales, 1873, 32mo, pp. 280.

Biblioteca della Gioventù Italiana.

39.—26. Giulio Verne. I Viaggi di Marco Polo unica versione originale fedelmente riscontrata sub codice Magliabeccano e sulle opere di Charton per cura di Ezio Colombo. Volume Unico. Milano, Serafino Muggiani e Comp., 1878, 16mo, pp. 143.

The frontispiece is a coarse wood-cut exhibiting Marco Polo; this vol. is part of a popular Collection of Travels.

40.—27. Marco Polo.—I Viaggi secondo la lezione del codice Magliabechiano più antico. Milano, Sonzogno, 1886, 16mo.

See supra 37–24.

D.—PORTUGUESE EDITION.

41.—1. MARCO ‖ PAULO. ¶ Ho liuro de Nycolao veneto. ¶ O trallado da carta de huũ genoues das ditas terras. ¶ Cõ priuilegio del Rey nosso senhor q̃ nenhuũ faça a impres ‖ sam deste liuro. nẽ ho venda em todollos se’ regnos & senho=‖rios sem liçẽça de Valentim fernãdez so pena cõteuda na car ‖ ta do seu preuilegio. Ho preço delle. Cento & dez reaes. folio of 106 ff.

Collation: 8 prel. ff. n. chiff., and 98 ff. numbered.

Recto 1ˢᵗ f.: Titre ut supra.—Vignette showing a sphere.

Verso 2ᵈ f.: ¶ Começase a epistola sobre a tralladaça do liuro de ‖ Marco paulo. Feita per Valẽtym fernãdez escudey ‖ ro da excellentissima Raynha Dona Lyanor. Ende ‖ rençada ao Serenissimo & Inuictissimo Rey & Sen ‖hor Dom Emanuel o primeiro. Rey de Portugal & ‖ dos Alguarues. daquẽ & alem mar em Africa. Sen ‖ hor de Buynee. E da conquista da nauegaçom & co‖mercio de Ethiopia. Arabia. Persia. & da India.

Recto 7ᵗʰ f.: Começase a tauoa dos capitulos do liuro Primeyro.

Recto 1ˢᵗ f. chif.: ¶ Começase ho Liuro Primeiro de Marco paulo ‖ de Veneza das condiçoões & custumes das gẽtes ‖ & das terras & prouincias orientaes. E prime y ra‖mente de como & em que maneyra Dom Marco=‖ paulo de Veneza & Dom Maffeo seu irmaão se pas‖sarom aas partes do oriente; vig. repres. a galley; border.

Verso f. 77: End of Marco Polo.

Recto f. 78: Nicolo Conti.

Verso f. 95: End of Nicolo Conti.

Recto f. 96: A Carta do genoues.

Verso f. 98: ¶ Acabase ho liuro de Marco paulo. cõ ho liuro de Nicolao ve=‖neto ou veneziano. & assi mesmo ho trallado de hũa carta de huũ ‖ genoues mercador. que todos escreuerõ das Indias. a seruiço ‖ de d’s. & auisamẽto daquelles q̃ agora vam pera as ditas Indias ‖ Aos quaes rogo & peço humilmente q̃ benignamẽte queirã emẽ‖dar & correger ho que menos acharẽ no escreuer. s. nos vocabul’ ‖ das prouincias. regnos. çidades. ylhas. & outras cousas muytas ‖ & nõ menos em a distãcia das legoas de hũa terra p̱a outra. Im=‖ primido per Valentym fernãdez alemaão. Em a muy nobre çida ‖ de Lyxboa. Era de Mil & quinhentos & dous annos. Aos. qua‖tro dias do mes de Feureyro.—At the top, printer’s mark.

A detailed description of this edition is to be found in Figanière’s Bibliographia, No. 947.

E.—SPANISH EDITIONS.

42.—1. Cosmographia ‖ breue introdu‖ctoria en el libro ‖ d’ Marco paulo. ‖—El libro del famoso Marco paulo ‖ veneciano d’las cosas marauillosas ‖ q̃ vido enlas partes oriẽtales. cõuie ‖ ne saber enlas Indias. Armenia. A‖rabia. Persia & Tartaria. E d’l pode ‖ rio d’l grã Cā y otros reyes. Cō otro ‖ tratado de micer Pogio florētino q̄ ‖ trata delas mesmas tierras & yslas.

Folio; 2 col.; 34 ff. numbered and 4 prel. ff. not numbered.

On the title page 4 woodcuts exhibiting: Marc paulo. Micer pogio. S. Domingo, ēla ysla Isabela. Calicu.

—The 4 prelim. ff. contain: —Recto 1 f.: Title. —Verso 1 f.: Prologo primero. —F. 2 and 3: Maestre Rodrigo al lector. —F. 4: Tabla de los capitulos.

—Marco Polo, ff. ¹⁄₂₆.

—Tratado de Micer Pogio, ff. 27-recto f. 27 [read 34].

—Last f. v. [numbered xxvij erroneously for xxxiv.]

“Acabase el libro del famoso Marco paulo vene‖ciano el q̃l cuēta de todas las tierras prouīcias & islas delas Indias. Arabia ‖ Persia Armenia y Tartaria y d’las cosas marauillosas que enellas se ha‖llan assi mesmo el grā señorio y riquezas del gran Can de Catayo se‖ñor delos tartaros | añadido en fin vn tratado breue de micer Pogio ‖ florentino el qual el mesmo escriuio por mandado de eugenio papa ‖ quarto deste nombre por relacion de vn Nicolao [Conti] veneciano el ‖ qual assi mesmo auia andado las ꝑtidas oriẽtales & de otros ‖ testigos dinos d’ fe como por el parece fiel mēte trasladado ‖ en lengua castellana por el reuerēdo señor maestre Rodri‖go de santa ella | Arcediano de reyna y canonigo ēla sā ‖ ta yglesia de Seuilla. El q̄l se ēprimio por Lā [?] alao ‖ polono y Jacome Crōberger alemano ēla muy ‖ noble y muy leal ciudad d’Seuilla. Año de ‖ mil & q’ niẽtos y tres a. xxviij. dias d’mayo.”

43.—2. ⍧ Libro del famoso Marco ‖ Polo veneciano delas cosas maraui‖llosas q̄ vido enlas partes orien=‖tales: conuiene saber enlas ‖ Indias | Armenia | Ara‖bia | Persia | & Tarta‖ria. Edel poderio ‖ del gran Can y ‖ otros reyes. ‖ Con otro ‖ tratado ‖ de mi‖cer ‖ Pogio Florentino & trata ‖ delas mesmas tie=‖rras & islas. s. l. n. d., fol.; 2 col. [Logroño, 1529].

Collation: 4 prel. ff. not numbered + signatures a—d × 8 = 32 ff.; in all 36 ff.

F. 1. v.: Prologo del Interprete.—f. 2 r. Cosmographia introductoria.—f. 3. v.: Tabla—f. 4 v.: Fin dela Tabla.—32 numbered f. follow: F. i.—Begins: Libro de Marco Polo Veneciano ‖ (col. 1.) ¶ Aqui comiença vn ‖ libro que trata delas cosas marauillosas ‖ que el noble varon micer Marco Polo de ‖ Venecia vido enlas partes de Oriente.

Ends: recto f. xxxij: La presente obra del famoso Marco ‖ Polo veneciano q̃ fue traduzida fielmẽte de lengua veneciana en ‖ castellano por el reuerẽdo señor maestre Rodrigo Arcedia‖no de reyna y canonigo enla yglesia de Seuilla. ‖ Fue impressa y corregida de nueuo enla ‖ muy constante y leal civdad de ‖ Logroño en casa d’Mi‖guel de eguia ‖ a treze ‖ de junio de mill & qui‖nientos y. xx. & nueue. ‖

“Cette édition de 1529, says Brunet est fort rare: 2 liv. 9 sh. Heber; 210 flor. Butsch, et 130 fr. en 1859.—Il y en a une plus ancienne de Séville, Cromberger, 1520 in-fol., que cite Panzer d’après Vogt.”

Lazari says of this edition of 1520, p. 461: “Di estrema rarità. Questa traduzione è tratta da un antico testo italiano: l’autore n’é Maestro Rodrigo de Santaella.”

44.—3. Historia ‖ de las Gran-‖dezas y Cosas ‖ marauillosas de las Prouin-‖cias Orientales. ‖ Sacada de Marco Pavlo ‖ Veneto, y traduzida de Latin en Romance, y aña-‖ dida en muchas partes por Don Martin de Bolea ‖ y Castro, Varon de Clamosa, ‖ señor de la Villa de ‖ Sietamo. ‖ Dirigida a Don Beltran de ‖ la Cueba, Duque de Alburquerque, Marques de ‖ Cuellar, Conde de Ledesma y Guelma, Lugar-‖ teniente, y Capitan General por su Ma-‖gestad, en el Reyno de ‖ Aragon. ‖ Con Licencia, en Caragoça. ‖ Por Angelo Tauano, Año. M. DCI, 8vo, 8 ff. n. ch. + 163 ff. + 8 ff. n. ch. for the tab. and errata. Last f. n. ch. verso: En Caragoça ‖ Por Angelo Tauano ‖ Año. 1601.

45.—4. Biblioteca universal. Coleccion de los Mejores autores antiguos y modernos, nacionales y extranjeros. Tomo LXVI. Los Viages de Marco Polo veneciano. Madrid. Direccion y administracion, 1880, 16mo, pp. 192.

“La edicion que hemos tenido principalmente à la vista, para formar este volúmen de nuestra Biblioteca, es la de Ludovico Pasini, Venecia 1847.”

F.—FRENCH EDITIONS.

46.—1. La ‖ description geo-‖graphiqve des Provinces ‖ & villes plus fameuses de l’Inde Orientale, meurs, ‖ loix, & coustumes des habitans d’icelles, mesme-‖ment de ce qui est soubz la domination du grand ‖ Cham Empereur des Tartares. ‖ Par Marc Paule gentilhomme Venetien, ‖ Et nouuellement reduict en ‖ vulgaire François. ‖ [mark] A Paris, ‖ Pour Vincent Sertenas tenant sa boutique au Palais en la gallerie par ‖ ou on va a la Chacellerie. Et en larue neuue Nostre dame à ‖ l’image sainct Iehan l’Euangeliste. ‖ 1556. ‖ Avec Privilege dv Roy, ‖ 4to, 10 prel. f. not numbered + 123 ff. numbered + 1 f. not numbered.

Sommaire dv Privilege du Roy (verso of title).—Epistle “A Adrian de Lavnay sei‖gneur de sainct Germain le Vieil, Viconte de ‖ sainct Siluain, Notaire & Secretaire ‖ du Roy.” F. G. L. S.—De Paris ce xviii. iour d’Aoust 1556, 3 pages.—Preface av lectevr par F. G. L., 5 pages.—Table, 8 pages.—Pièces de vers 2 pages at the beginning and an advertisement (1 page) at the end.

Begins page 1: “Lors que Bauldoyn Prince Chre‖stien tãt fameux & renommé tenoit ‖ l’Empire de Constãtinople, assavoir ‖ en l’an de l’incarnation de nostre ‖ Saulueur mil deux cens soixante & ‖ neuf, deux nobles & prudẽs citoyẽs ‖ de Venise....”

Verso of last f. not numbered, the mark of Vincent Sertenas.

Oldest edition in French.

Marsden and Yule believe that it has been translated from the Latin of the Novus Orbis.

47.—2. Same title. A Paris, ‖ Pour Estienne Groulleau, demourant en la rue neuue Nostre ‖ dame, à l’image sainct Iehan Baptiste. ‖ 1556. ‖ Avec privilege dv Roy, 4to.

Same edition with a different bookseller.

48.—3. La Description geographique ... de l’Inde Orientale ... Par Marc Paule ... ‖ A Paris, ‖ Pour Jehan Longis tenant sa boutique au Palais en la gallerie par ‖ ou on va à la Chancellerie. ‖ 1556.‖ Auec Priuilege du Roy. 4to.

Same edition as Sertenas’ with the privilege of this bookseller. A copy is marked in the Catalogue des livres ... de ... James de Rothschild, II, Paris, 1887, No. 1938. M. E. Picot remarks that the Preface by F. G. L., as well as the motto Inter utrumque belong to FRANÇOIS GRUGET, Lochois, who in the same year edited with the same booksellers the Dodechedron de Fortune.

49.—4. Les ‖ Voiages ‖ très-curieux & fort remarquables, ‖ Achevées par toute ‖ l’Asie, Tartarie, Mangi, Japon, ‖ les ‖ Indes orientales, iles adjacentes, ‖ & l’Afrique, ‖ Commencées l’An 1252. ‖ Par Marc Paul, Venitien, ‖ Historien recommandable pour sa fidelité. ‖ Qui contiennent une Relation très-exacte des Païs Orientaux: ‖ Dans laquelle il décrit très exactement plusieurs Païs & Villes, lesquelles ‖ Lui même a Voiagées & vües la pluspart: & où il nous enseigne briévement ‖ les Mœurs & Coutumes de ces Peuples, avant ce tems là inconnues aux ‖ Européens; ‖ Comme aussi l’origine de la puissance des Tartares, quand à leurs Conquêtes ‖ de plusieurs Etats ou Païs dans la Chine, ici clairement proposée & expliquée. ‖ Le tout divisé en III. Livres, ‖ Conferé avec un Manuscrit de la Bibliotheque de S. A. E. de Brandebourg, ‖ & enrichi de plusieurs Notes & Additions tirées du dit Manuscrit, ‖ de l’Edition de Ramuzio, de celle de Purchas, ‖ & de celle de Vitriare.

Form a part of 43 and 185 col. in vol. ii. of Voyages faits principalement en Asie ... par Pierre Bergeron. A la Haye, Chez Jean Neaulme M. DCC. XXXV, in-4.

After André Müller Greiffenhag.

Remark on the title-page the date of the voyage 1252! In the text, col. 6, it is marked 1272.

50.—5. Marco Polo—Un Vénitien chez les Chinois avec étude biographique et littéraire par Charles Simond. Paris, Henri Gautier, s. d. , ppᵗ. 8vo, pp. 32.

Forms No. 122 of Nouvelle Bibliothèque populaire à 10 Cent. Besides a short biographical notice, it contains Bergeron’s Text.

51.—6. Voyages de Marco Polo. Première partie. Introduction, Texte. Glossaire et Variantes.

Introduction, pp. xi.–liv. [by Roux.]

Voyage de Marc Pol, pp. 1–288—Table des Chapitres, pp. 289–296. [Published from MS. 7367 of the Bibliothèque nationale.]

Peregrinatio Marci Pauli. Ex Manuscripto Bibliothecae Regiae, Nᵒ 3195 f°, pp. 297–494—Index Capitum, pp. 495–502.

Glossaire des mots hors d’usage, pp. 503–530 [by Méon].

Errata, pp. 531–532.

Variantes et Tableau comparatif des noms propres et des noms de lieux cités dans les voyages de Marco Polo, pp. 533–552.

(Vol. i. 1824, of the Recueil de Voyages, de la Société de géographie de Paris.)

—Rapport sur la Publication des Voyages de Marco Polo, fait au nom de la section de publication, par M. Roux, rapporteur. (Bull. de la Soc. de Géog., I. 1822, pp. 181–191.)

—Itinéraires à Jérusalem et Descriptions de la Terre Sainte rédigés en français aux xiᵉ, xiiᵉ, & xiiiᵉ siècles publiés par Henri Michelant & Gaston Raynaud. Genève, Fick, 1882, in-8.

Voyage des Polo, pp. xxviii.–xxix.—Ext. of MS. fr. 1116 are given, pp. 201–212, et of the version called after Thiébault de Cépoy, pp. 213–226.

The Fr. MS. 1116, late 7367, has been reproduced by photography (including the binding, a poor modern one in calf!) at Karlsruhe this year (1902) under the title:

—Le divisiment dou monde de Messer March Pol de Venece.—Die Handschrift Fonds Français No. 1116 der National bibliothek zu Paris photographisch aufgenommen auf der Gr. Hof- und Landesbibliothek zu Karlsruhe von Dr. A. Steiner.—Karlsruhe. Hof-Buchdruckerei Friedrich Gutsch. 1902, in-4.

Has No. Impr. 5210 in the National Library, Paris.

52.—7. Marco Polo. (Charton, Voy. anc. et mod., II. pp. 252–440.)

Modernized Text of the Geographical Society.—Notes, Bibliography, etc.

53.—8. 忽必烈樞密副使博羅本書

—Le livre ‖ de ‖ Marco Polo ‖ citoyen de Venise ‖ Conseiller privé et commissaire impérial ‖ de ‖ Khoubilaï-Khaân; ‖ rédigé en français sous sa dictée en 1298 ‖ par Rusticien de Pise; ‖ Publié pour la première fois d’après trois manuscrits inédits de la Bibliothèque impériale de Paris, ‖ présentant la rédaction primitive du Livre, revue par Marc Pol lui-même et donnée par lui, en 1307, à Thiébault de Cépoy, ‖ accompagnée des variantes, de l’explication des mots hors d’usage, et de Commentaires géographiques et historiques, ‖ tirés des écrivains orientaux, principalement chinois, avec une Carte générale de l’Asie; ‖ par ‖ M. G. Pauthier. ‖—Paris ‖ Librairie de Firmin Didot.... M. DCCC. LXV, 2 parts, large 8vo.

—Polo (Marco) par G. Pauthier.

Extrait de la Nouvelle Biographie générale, publiée par MM. Firmin Didot frères et fils. Ppt. 8vo, on 2 col.

—A Memoir of Marco Polo, the Venetian Traveller to Tartary and China [translated from the French of M. G. Pauthier]. (Chin. & Jap. Rep., Sept. & Oct. 1863.)

54.—9. Les Récits de Marco Polo citoyen de Venise sur l’histoire, les mœurs et les coutumes des Mongols, sur l’empire Chinois et ses merveilles; sur Gengis-Khan et ses hauts faits; sur le Vieux de la Montagne; le Dieu des idolâtres, etc. Texte original français du XIIIᵉ siècle rajeuni et annoté par Henri Bellenger. Paris, Maurice Dreyfous, s. d., 18mo, pp. iv–280.

55.—10. Le Livre de Marco Polo—Facsimile d’un manuscrit du XIVᵉ siècle conservé à la Bibliothèque royale de Stockholm, 4to, 4 ff. n. c. for the title ut supra and preface + 100 ff. n. c. [200 pages] of text facsimile.

We read on the verso of the title-page: “Photolithographie par l’Institut lithographique de l’Etat-Major—Typographie par l’Imprimerie centrale—Stockholm, 1882.”—We learn from the preface by the celebrated A. E. Nordenskiöld, that 200 copies, two of which on parchment have been printed. In the preface is printed a letter, Paris, 22nd Nov. 1881, written by M. Léopold Delisle, which shows that the Stockholm MS. belonged to the library of the King of France, Charles V. (who had five copies of Polo’s Book) and had No. 317 in the Inventory of 1411; it belonged to the Louvre, to Solier of Honfleur, to Paul Petau when it was purchased by King Christina.

—Le “Livre de Marco Polo.” Facsimile d’un manuscrit du XIVᵉ siècle conservé à la Bibliothèque royale de Stockholm. Stockholm, 1882, in-4 (Signed: LÉOPOLD DELISLE)—Nogent-le-Rotrou, imp. de Daupeley-Gouverneur. , pp. 8vo.

Extrait de la Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes. t. xliii. 1882.—

This is a reprint of an article by M. Delisle in the Bib. de l’Éc. des Chartes, xliii. 1882, pp. 226–235.—see also p. 434.—M. G. Raynaud has also given a notice of this edition of Stockholm in Romania, xl. 1882, pp. 429–430, and Sir Henry Yule, in The Athenæum, 17th June, 1882, pp. 765–766.

—Il libro di Marco Polo facsimile d’un manoscritto del XIV secolo. Nota del prof. G. Pennesi. (Bol. Soc. Geog. Ital., 1882, pp. 949–950.)

—See MURET, Ernest, pp. 547 and 582.

G.—ENGLISH EDITIONS.

56.—1. The most noble ‖ and famous trauels of ‖ Marcus Paulus, one ‖ of the nobilitie of the state of ‖ Venice, into the East partes ‖ of the world, as Armenia, Per‖sia, Arabia, Tartary, with ‖ many other kingdoms ‖ and Prouinces. ‖ No lesse pleasant, than ‖ profitable, as appeareth ‖ by the Table, or Contents ‖ of this Booke. ‖ Most necessary for all sortes ‖ of Persons, and especially ‖ for Trauellers. ‖ Translated into English. ‖ At London, ‖ Printed by Ralph Nevvbery, ‖ Anno. 1579. Small 4to. pp. + 167 + . Sig. *-**** A—X.

Pp. 167 without the 28 first pages which contain the title (2 p.), the epistle of the translator, Iohn Frampton (2 p.). Maister Rothorigo to the Reader: An introduction into Cosmographie (10 pages), the Table of the Chapters (6 p.). The Prologue (8 p.).

57.—2. The first Booke of Marcvs Pavlvs Venetvs, or of Master Marco Polo, a Gentleman of Venice, his Voyages. (Purchas, His Pilgrimes. London, Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, ... 1625, Lib. I. Ch. IIII. pp. 65–108.)

After Ramusio.

58.—3. The Travels of Marco Polo, or Mark Paul, the Venetian, into Tartary, in 1272. (Astley’s Collection of Travels, IV. pp. 580–619).

French translation in l’Hist. Gén. des Voyages.

59.—4. Harris’s Navigantium atque Itin. Bib., ed. of 1715 and of 1744.

60.—5. The curious and remarkable Voyages and Travels of Marco Polo, a Gentleman of Venice who in the Middle of the thirteenth Century passed through a great part of Asia, all the Dominions of the Tartars, and returned Home by Sea through the Islands of the East Indies. [Taken chiefly from the accurate Edition of Ramusio, compared with an original Manuscript in His Prussian Majesty’s Library and with most of the Translations hitherto published.] (Pinkerton, VII. p. 101.)

61.—6. Marco Polo. Travels into China and the East, from 1260 to 1295. (Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels.... Edinburgh, 1811–1824, vol. i.)

62.—7. The ‖ Travels ‖ of ‖ Marco Polo, ‖ a Venetian, ‖ in the Thirteenth Century: ‖ being a ‖ Description, by that early traveller, ‖ of ‖ remarkable places and things, ‖ in ‖ the ‖ Eastern Parts of the World. ‖ Translated from the Italian, ‖ with ‖ Notes, ‖ by William Marsden, F.R.S., &c. ‖ With a Map. ‖ London: ‖ M. DCCC. XVIII., large 4to, pp. lxxx.–782 + 1 f. n. ch. for the er.

The first 80 pages are devoted to a remarkable Introduction, in which are treated of various subjects enumerated on p. 782: Life of Marco Polo; General View of the Work; Choice of Text for Translation; Original Language, etc. There is an index, pp. 757–781.

63.—8. The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian. The Translation of Marsden revised, with a Selection of his Notes. Edited by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., etc. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854, small 8vo, pp. xxviii.–508.

64.—9. The Travels of Marco Polo ... By Hugh Murray ... Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd ... M. DCCC. XLIV, 8vo, pp. 368.

Vol. 38 of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, published at 5s.

—Second Edition, ... Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd ... M DCCC XLIV, 8vo.

—The Travels of Marco Polo, greatly amended and enlarged from valuable early manuscripts recently published by the French Society of Geography, and in Italy by Count Baldelli Boni. With copious Notes, illustrating the routes and observations of the author and comparing them with those of more recent Travellers. By Hugh Murray, F.R.S.E. Two Maps and a Vignette. New York, Harper, 1845, 12mo, pp. vi–326.

—4th ed., Edinburg, s.a.

65.—10. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. Newly Translated and edited, with Notes. By Colonel Henry Yule, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers (Bengal), Hon. Fellow of the Geographical Society of Italy. In two volumes. With Maps, and other Illustrations. London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1871, 2 vol. 8vo.

66.—11. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. Newly translated and edited, with Notes, Maps, and other Illustrations. By Colonel Henry Yule, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers (Bengal) ... In two volumes. Second edition, revised. With the addition of new matter and many new illustrations. London: John Murray, 1875, 2 vols. 8vo.

—Marco Polo e il suo Libro del Colonnello Henry Yule, C.B. Por Guglielmo Berchet. (Archivio Veneto, II. 1871, pp. 124–174, 259–350.)

Contains a Translation of the Introductory Essay, etc.

—The Story of Marco Polo. With Illustrations. London, John Murray, 1898, 8vo, pp. xiv.–247.

Preface by Noah Brooks. “In his comments ... the author has made use of the erudite notes of Colonel Henry Yule....”

67.—12. Voyages and Travels of Marco Polo.—London, Cassell, 1886, 16mo, pp. 192.

The Preface is signed H. M[osley].—From Pinkerton.—Popular Edition. Cassell’s National Library.

H.—DUTCH EDITIONS.

—Die nieuvve vveerelt der Landtschappen ende Eylanden ... Gheprint Thantwerpen ... Anno. M.D. LXIII. folio.

Marcus Pauwels, f. xxvii.

68.—1. MARKUS PAULUS VENETUS ‖ Reisen, ‖ En ‖ Beschryving ‖ Der ‖ oostersche ‖ Lantschappen; ‖ Daar in hy naaukeuriglijk veel Landen en Steden, die hy zelf ten meestendeel ‖ bereist en bezichtigt heeft, beschrijft, de zeden en gewoonten van die Vol-‖ken, tot aan die tijt onbekent, ten toon stelt, en d’opkoomst van de Heer-‖schappy der Tartaren, en hun verövering van verscheide landen in Sina, ‖ met ander namen genoemt, bekent maakt. ‖ Beneffens de ‖ Historie ‖ Der ‖ oostersche Lantschappen, ‖ Door HAITHON van ARMENIEN te zamen gestelt. ‖ Beide nieuwelijks door J. H. GLAZEMAKER vertaalt. ‖ Hier is noch by gevoegt De Reizen van Nicolaas Venetus, en ‖ Jeronymus van St. Steven naar d’oostersche Landen, en ‖ naar d’Indien. Door P.P. vertaalt. ‖ Als ook een Verhaal van de verovering van ’t Eilant Formosa, door ‖ de Sinezen; door J. V. K. B. vertaalt. ‖ Met Kopere Platen verciert. ‖ t’ Amsterdam, ‖ Voor Abraham Wolfgang, Boekverkoper, aan d’Opgang van de ‖ Beurs, by de Beurstooren, in ’t Geloof, 1664. 4to, 6 ff. not numbered for the tit., prf. + pp. 99 + 4 ff. not numbered for the tab. etc. of Marco Polo.

The other works have a special pagination.

I.—TCHÈQUE EDITION.

69.—1. Million Marka Pavlova. Fragment of the tchèque translation of the Berlin Museum. Prague, No. 3 F. 26, xvth cent., by an Anonym, Moravian? (Výbor z Literatury české, II. v Praze, 1868.)

70.—2. Pohledy do Velkorise mongolské v čas nejmocnejšího rozkvetu jejího za Kublaje kána. Na základe čestopisu Marka Polova podává A. J. Vrtatko. (Výnato z Časopisu Musea král. Českého 1873.) V Praze, J. Otto, 1873, 8vo, pp. 71.

M. A. Jarosl. Vrtatko has translated the whole of Marco Polo, but he has published only this fragment.

J.—RUSSIAN EDITIONS.

71.—1. Марко Поло путешествіе въ 1286 году по Татаріи и другимъ странамь востока венеціанскаго дворянина Марко Поло, прозваннаго Милліонеромъ.—Три части.—St. Petersburg, 1873, 8vo, pp. 250.

72.—2. И. П. Минаевъ.—Путешествіе Марко Поло переводъ старофранцузскаго текста.—Изданіе Имп. Русскаго Геог. Общества подъ редакціей дѣйствительнаго члена В. В. Бартольда.—St. Petersburg, 1902, 8vo, pp. xxix + 1 f. + pp. 355.

Vol. xxvi. of the Zapiski of the Russian Geog. Society, translated from the French.

K.—IRISH EDITION.

73.—The Gaelic Abridgment of the Book of Ser Marco Polo. By Whitley Stokes. (Zeit. f. Celtische Philologie, 1 Bd., 2 & 3 Hft. Halle a. S. 1896–7, 8vo, pp. 245–273, 362–438.)

Book of Lismore.—See our Introduction, I. p. 103, note.

L.—VARIOUS EDITIONS.

74.—1. The edition of Marco Polo in preparation by Klaproth is announced in the part of June, 1824 of the Journal Asiatique, pp. 380–381.

“M. Klaproth vient de terminer son travail sur Marco Polo, qui l’a occupé depuis plusieurs années....

“La nouvelle édition de Marco Polo, que notre confrère prépare, contiendra l’italien de Ramusio, complété, et des Notes explicatives en bas des pages. Elle sera accompagnée d’une Carte représentant les pays visités ou décrits par le célèbre Vénitien.”

—See also on this edition of Klaproth, the Bulletin des Sciences historiques, antiquités etc., juin 1824, art. 580; the Jour. des Savans, juillet 1824, pp. 446–447, and the Jour. As. of 1824–1828: Recherches sur les Ports de Gampou. Klaproth’s materials for this edition were sold after his death Fr.200 to the bookseller Duprat; see Cat. des Livres composant la Bib. de M. K., IIᵉ Partie, No. 292.

75.—2. Marco Polos Beskrivelse af det ostlige asiatiske Hoiland, forklaret ved C. V. Rimestad. Forste Afdeling, indeholdende Indledningen og Ost-Turkestan. Indbydelseskrift til den aarlige offentlige Examen i Borgerdydskolen i Kjobenhavn i Juli 1841. Kjobenhavn, Trykt hos Bianco Luno. 1841, 8vo, pp. 80.

76.—3. Marco Polo’s Resa i Asien.

Small ppt. square 12mo, pp. 16; on p. 16 at foot: Stockholm, tryckt hos P. G. Berg, 1859.

On the title-page a cut illustrating a traveller in a chariot drawn by elephants.

III.—TITLES OF SUNDRY BOOKS AND PAPERS WHICH TREAT OF MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.

1. SALVIATI, Cavalier LIONARDO. Degli Avvertimenti della Lingua sopra ’l Decamerone. In Venezia, 1584.

Has some brief remarks on Texts of Polo, and on references to him or his story in Villani and Boccaccio.

2. MARTINI, MARTINO. Novus Atlas Sinensis. Amstelodami, 1655.

The Maps are from Chinese sources, and are surprisingly good. The Descriptions, also from Chinese works but interspersed with information of Martini’s own, have, in their completeness, never been superseded. This estimable Jesuit often refers to Polo with affectionate zeal, identifying his localities, and justifying his descriptions. The edition quoted in this book forms a part of Blaeu’s Great Atlas (1663). It was also reprinted in Thévenot’s Collection.

3. KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS. China Illustrata. Amstelodami, 1667.

He also often refers to Polo, but chiefly in borrowing from Martini.

4. MAGAILLANS, GABRIEL DE (properly Magalhaens). Nouvelle Description de la Chine, contenant la description des Particularités les plus considérables de ce Grand Empire. Paris, 1688, 4to.

Contains many excellent elucidations of Polo’s work.

5. CORONELLI, VINCENZO. Atlante Veneto. Venezia, 1690.

Has some remarks on Polo, and the identity of Cathay and Cambaluc with China and Peking.

6. MURATORI, LUD. ANT. Perfetta Poesia, con note di SALVINI. Venezia, 1724.

In vol. ii. p. 117, Salvini makes some remarks on the language in which he supposes Polo to have composed his Book.

7. FOSCARINI, MARCO. Della Letteratura Veneziana. Padova, 1752. Vol. i. 414 seqq.

8. FOSCARINI, MARCO. Frammento inedito di, intorno ai Viaggiatori Veneziani; accompanied by Remarks on Bürck’s German edition of Marco Polo, by TOMMASO GAR (late Director of the Venice Archives). In Archivio Storico Italiano, Append. tom. iv. p. 89 seqq. [See Bibliography, supra 8–8, p. 557.]

9. ZENO, APOSTOLO, Annotazioni sopra la Biblioteca dell’Eloquenza Italiana di Giusto Fontanini. Venezia, 1753.

See Marsden’s Introduction, passim.

10. TIRABOSCHI, GIROLAMO. Storia della Letteratura Italiana. Modena, 1772–1783.

There is a disquisition on Polo, with some judicious remarks (iv. pp. 68–73).

11. TOALDO, GIUSEPPE. Saggi di Studi Veneti nell’Astronomia e nella Marina. Ven. 1782.

This work, which I have not seen, is stated to contain some remarks on Polo’s Book. The author had intended to write a Commentary thereon, and had collected books and copies of MSS. with this view, and read an article on the subject before the Academy of Padua, but did not live to fulfil his intention (d. 1797).

12. LESSING. Marco Polo, aus einer Handschrift ergănzt, und aus einer andern sehr zu verbessern: (Zur Geschichte und Literatur ... von G. E. Lessing. II. Beytrag. Braunschweig, 1773, 8vo, pp. 259–298.)

13. FORSTER, J. REINHOLD. H. des Découvertes et des Voyages faits dans le Nord. French Version. Paris, 1788.

14. SPRENGEL, MATHIAS CHRISTIAN. Geschichte der wichtigsten geographischen Entdeckungen, &c. 2nd Ed. Halle, 1792.

This book, which is a marvel for the quantity of interesting matter which it contains in small space, has much about Polo.

15. ZURLA, Abate PLACIDO. Life of Polo, in Collezione di Vite e Ritratti d’Illustri Italiani. Padova, 1816.

This book is said to have procured a Cardinal’s Hat for the author. It is a respectable book, and Zurla’s exertions in behalf of the credit of his countrymen are greatly to be commended, though the reward seems inappropriate.

16. ———, ———. Dissertazioni di Marco Polo e degli altri Viaggiatori Veneziani, &c. Venezia, 1818–19, 4to.

17. 18, 19. QUARTERLY REVIEW, vol. xxi. (1819), contains an Article on Marsden’s Edition, written by John Barrow, Esq.; that for July, 1868, contains another on Marco Polo and his Recent Editors, written by the present Editor; and that for Jan. 1872, one on the First Edition of this work, by R. H. Major, Esq.

20. ASIA, Hist. Account of Discovery and Travels in. By HUGH MURRAY. Edinburgh, 1820.

21. STEIN, C. G. D. Rede des Herrn Professor Dr. Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein. (Gesprochen den 29sten September, 1819.) Ueber den Venetianer Marco Polo. Pages 8–19 of Einladung zur Gedächtniszfeier der Wohlthăter des Berlinisch-Köllnischen Gymnasiums ... von dem Direktor Johann Joachim Bellermann. Sm. 8vo, s. d. .

22. KLAPROTH, JULIUS. A variety of most interesting articles in the Journal Asiatique (see sér. I. tom. iv., tom. ix.; sér. II. tom. i. tom. xi. etc.), and in his Mémoires Relatifs à l’Asie. Paris, 1824.

Klaproth speaks more than once as if he had a complete Commentary on Marco Polo prepared or in preparation (e.g., see J. As., sér. i. tom. iv. p. 380). But the examination of his papers after his death produced little or nothing of this kind.—[Cf. supra, p. 573.]

23. CICOGNA, EMMANUELE ANTONIO. Delle Iscrizioni Veneziane, Raccolte ed Illustrate. Venezia, 1824–1843.

Contains valuable notices regarding the Polo family, especially in vol. ii.

24. RÉMUSAT, JEAN PIERRE ABEL. Mélanges Asiatiques. Paris, 1825. Nouveaux Mélanges As. Paris, 1829.

The latter contains (i. 381 seqq.) an article on Marsden’s Marco Polo, and one (p. 397 seqq.) upon Zurla’s Book.

25. ANTOLOGIA, edited by VIEUSSIEUX. Tom. xix. B. pp. 92–124. Firenze, 1825.

A review of the publication of the old French Text by the Soc. de Géographie.

26. ANNALI UNIVERSALI DI STATISTICA. Vol. xvi. p. 286. Milano. 1828. Article by F. CUSTODI.

27. WALCKENAER, Baron C. Vies de plusieurs Personnages Célèbres des temps anciens et modernes. Laon, 1830, 2 vol. 8vo.

This contains a life of Marco Polo, vol. ii. pp. 1–34.

28. ST. JOHN, JAMES AUGUSTUS. Lives of Celebrated Travellers. London (circa 1831).

Contains a life of Marco Polo, which I regret not to have seen.

29. COOLEY, W. D. Hist. of Maritime and Inland Discovery. London (circa 1831).

This excellent work contains a good chapter on Marco Polo.

30. RITTER, CARL. Die Erdkunde von Asien. Berlin, 1832, seqq.

This great work abounds with judicious comments on Polo’s Geography, most of which have been embodied in Bürck’s edition.

31. DELECLUZE, M. Article on Marco Polo in the Revue des Deux Mondes for 1st July, 1832. Vol. vii. 8vo, pp. 24.

32. PAULIN PARIS. Papers of much value on the MSS. of Marco Polo, etc., in Bulletin de la Soc. de Géographie for 1833, tom. xix. pp. 23–31; as well as in Journal Asiatique, sér. II. tom. xii. pp. 244–54; L’Institut, Journal des Sciences, &c., Sect. II. tom. xvi. Jan. 1851.

33. MALTE-BRUN. Précis de la Géog. Universelle, 4^{iéme} Ed. par HUOT. Paris, 1836.

Vol. i. (pp. 551 seqq.) contains a section on Polo, neither good nor correct.

34. DE MONTÉMONT, ALBERT. Bibliothèque Universelle des voyages.

In vol. xxxi. pp. 33–51 there is a Notice of Marco Polo.

35. PALGRAVE, Sir FRANCIS. The Merchant and the Friar. London, 1837.

The Merchant is Marco Polo, who is supposed to visit England, after his return from the East, and to become acquainted with the Friar Roger Bacon. The book consists chiefly of their conversations on many subjects.

It does not affect the merits of this interesting book that Bacon is believed to have died in 1292, some years before Marco’s return from the East.

36. D’AVEZAC, M. Remarks in his most valuable Notice sur les Anciens Voyages de Tartarie, &c., in the Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires publié par la Société de Géographie, tom. iv. pp. 407 seqq. Paris, 1839. Also article in the Bulletin de la Soc. de Géog., &c., for August, 1841; and in Journal Asiat. sér. II. tom. xvi. p. 117.

37. PARAVEY, Chev. DE. Article in Journ. Asiatique, sér. II. tom. xvi. 1841, p. 101.

38. HAMMER-PURGSTALL, in Bull. de la Soc. de Géog., tom. iii. No. 21, p. 45.

39. QUATREMÈRE, ÉTIENNE. His translations and other works on Oriental subjects abound in valuable indirect illustrations of M. Polo; but in Notices et Extraits des MSS. de la Bibliothèque du Roi, tom. xvi. Pt. i. pp. 281–286, Paris, 1843, there are some excellent remarks both on the work itself and on Marsden’s Edition of it.

40. MACFARLANE, CHARLES. Romance of Travel. London, C. Knight. 1846.

A good deal of intelligent talk on Marco Polo.

41. MEYER, ERNST H. F. Geschichte der Botanik. Königsberg, 1854–57.

In vol. iv, there is a special chapter on Marco Polo’s notices of plants.

42. THOMAS, Professor G. M. Zu Marco Polo, aus einem Cod. ital. Monacensis in the Sitzungsberichten der Münchner Akademie, 4th March, 1862, pp. 261–270.

43. KHANIKOFF, NICOLAS DE. Notice sur le Livre de Marco Polo, édité et commenté par M. G. Pauthier. Paris, 1866. Extracted from the Journal Asiatique. I have frequently quoted this with advantage, and sometimes have ventured to dissent from it.

44. CAHIER, Père. Criticism of Pauthier’s Marco Polo, and reply by G. Pauthier, in Études Littéraires et Religieuses of 1866 and 1867. Paris.

45. BARTHÉLEMY ST. HILAIRE. A series of articles on Marco Polo in the Journal des Savants of January–May, 1867, chiefly consisting of a reproduction of Pauthier’s views and deductions.

46. DE GUBERNATIS, Prof. ANGELO. Memoria intorno ai Viaggiatori Italiani nelle Indie Orientali, dal secolo XIII. a tutto il XVI. Firenze, 1867.

47. BIANCONI, Prof. GIUSEPPE. Degli Scritti di Marco Polo e dell’Uccello RUC da lui menzionato. 2 parts large 8vo. Bologna, 1862 and 1868, pp. 64, 40.

A meritorious essay, containing good remarks on the comparison of different Texts.

48. KINGSLEY, HENRY. Tales of Old Travel renarrated. London, 1869.

This begins with Marco Polo. The work has gone through several editions, but I do not know whether the author has corrected some rather eccentric geography and history that were presented in the first. Mr. Kingsley is the author of another story about Marco Polo in a Magazine, but I cannot recover the reference.

49. NOTES AND QUERIES for CHINA AND JAPAN. This was published from January, 1867, to November, 1870, at Hong-Kong under able editorship, and contained some valuable notes connected with Marco Polo’s chapters on China.

50. GHIKA, Princess ELENA (Dora d’Istria). Marco Polo, Il Cristoforo Colombo dell’Asia. Trieste, 1869, 8vo, pp. 39.

51. BUFFA, Prof. GASPARE. Marco Polo, Orazione commemorativa, Letta nel R. Liceo Cristoforo Colombo il 24 marzo 1872. Genova, 8vo, pp. 18.

52. EDINBURGH REVIEW, January, 1872, pp. 1–36. A review of the first edition of the present work, acknowledged by SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, and full of Oriental knowledge. (See also No. 19 supra.)

53. OCEAN HIGHWAYS, for December, 1872, p. 285. An interesting letter on Marco Polo’s notices of Persia, by Major OLIVER ST. JOHN, R.E.

54. RICHTHOFEN, Baron F. VON. Das Land und die Stadt Caindu von Marco Polo, a valuable paper in the Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin. No. 1 of 1874, p. 33.

55. BUSHELL, Dr. S. W., Physician to H.M.’s Legation at Peking. Notes of a Journey outside the Great Wall of China, embracing an account of the first modern visit to the site of Kúblái’s Palace at Shang-tu. Appeared in J. R. G. S. vol. xliv. An abstract was published in the Proc. R. G. S. xviii., 1874, pp. 149–168.

56. PHILLIPS, GEORGE, of H.M.’s Consular Service in China.—Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta in Fookien (Chinese Recorder, III., 1870–1871, pp. 12, 44, 71, 87, 125); Notices of Southern Mangi, with Remarks by COLONEL HENRY YULE, C.B. (from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society); Notices of Southern Mangi [Abridgment] (Proc. R. Geog. Soc., XVIII., 1873–1874, pp. 168–173); Zaitun Researches (Chin. Rec., V. pp. 327–339; VI. 31–42; VII. pp. 330–338, 404–418; VIII. 117–124); Changchow, the Capital of Fuhkien in Mongol Times, read before the Society, 19th November, 1888 (Jour. C. B. R. A. S., XXIII. N.S., nᵒ 1, 1888, pp. 23–30); The Identity of Marco Polo’s Zaitun with Chang-chau, with a sketch-map of Marco-Polo’s route (T’oung Pao, I., Oct. 1890, pp. 218–238); Two Mediæval Fuh-kien Trading Ports, Chüan-chow and Chang-chow.—Part I. Chang-chow (T’oung-Pao, VI. No. 5, déc. 1895, pp. 449/463).—Part II. Chüan-Chow (Ibid., VII. No. 3, Juillet 1896, pp. 223/240, with 3 photog.).

57. WHEELER, J. TALBOYS. History of India (vol. iii. pp. 385–393) contains a résumé of, and running comment on, Marco Polo’s notices of India.

Mr. Wheeler’s book says; “His travels appear to have been written at Comorin, the most southerly point of India” (p. 385). The words that I have put in Italics are evidently a misprint, though it is not clear how to correct them.

58. DE SKATTSCHKOFF, CONSTANTIN. Le Vénitien Marco Polo, et les services qu’il a rendus en faisant connaître l’Asie. Read before the Imp. Geog. Society at St. Petersburg, ⁶⁄₁₈ October, 1865; translated by M. Emile Durand in the Journ. Asiatique, sér. VII. tom. iv. pp. 122–158 (September, 1874).

The Author expresses his conviction that Marco Polo had described a number of localities after Chinese written authorities; for in the old Chinese descriptions of India and other transmarine countries are found precisely the same pieces of information, neither more nor fewer, that are given by Marco Polo. Though proof of this would not be proof of the writer’s deduction that Marco Polo was acquainted with the Chinese language, it would be very interesting in itself, and would explain some points to which we have alluded (e.g., in reference to the frankincense plant, p. 396, and to the confusion between Madagascar and Makdashau, p. 413). And Mr. G. Phillips has urged something of the same kind. But M. de Skattschkoff adduces no proof at all; and for the rest his Essay is full of inaccuracy.

59. CANTÙ, CESARE. Italiani Illustri Ritratti, 1873, vol. i. p. 147.

60. MARSH, JOHN B. Stories of Venice and the Venetians ... illustrated by C. Berjeau. London, 1873, 8vo, pp. vii.–418.

Chaps. VI., VII. and VIII. are devoted to Marco Polo.

61. KINGSMILL, THOS. W. Notes on the Topography of some of the Localities in Manji, or Southern China mentioned by Marco Polo. (Notes and Queries on China and Japan, vol. i. pp. 52–54.)

—————————— Notes on Marco Polo’s Route from Khoten to China. (Chin. Recorder, VII. 1876, pp. 338–343.)

62. PAQUIER, J. B. Itinéraire de Marco Polo à travers la région du Pamir au XIIIᵉ siècle. (Bull. Soc. Géog., 1876, août, pp. 113–128.)

63. PALLADIUS, ARCHIMANDRITE. Elucidations of Marco Polo’s Travels in North-China, drawn from Chinese Sources. (Jour. N. C. Br. R. As. Soc., x. 1876, pp. 1–54.)

Translated into English by A. Wylie and E. Bretschneider. The Russian text has just been published (T. xxxviii. 1902, of the Isviestiya) by the Imp. Russian Geog. Society.

Sir Henry Yule wrote in the Addenda of the second edition:

“And I learn from a kind Russian correspondent, that an early number of the J. N. China Branch R. Asiatic Society will contain a more important paper, viz.: Remarks on Marco Polo’s Travels to the North of China, derived from Chinese Sources; by the ARCHIMANDRITE PALLADIUS. This celebrated traveller and scholar says (as I am informed): ‘I have followed up the indications of Marco Polo from Lobnor to Shangdu, and in part to Peking.... It would seem that I have been so fortunate as to clear up the points that remained obscure to Yule.’ I deeply regret that my book cannot now profit by these promised remarks. I am not, however, without hope, that in the present edition, with its Appendices, some at least of the Venerable Traveller’s identifications may have been anticipated.”

The greater part of the notes of my late friend, the Archimandrite Palladius Katharov, have been incorporated in the present edition of Marco Polo.—H. C.

64. JIREČEK, JOSEF. Báseň o pobití Tataruv a “Million” Marka Pavlova, (Časopis Musea království českého, 1877, pp. 103–119).

65. GEBAUER, J. Ein Beitrag zur Erklärung der Königinhofer Handschrift. (J. Gebauer, in Archiv für Slavische Philologie, Berlin, 1877, ii. pp. 143–155.)

66. ZANETTI, V. Quattro Documenti inediti dell’Archivio degli Esposti in Venezia (Marco Polo e la sua Famiglia—Marin Falier). Por V. Zanetti. (Archivio Veneto, xvi. 1878, pp. 95–110.)

See Calendar, Nos. 6, 19, and 20 for the three Documents relating to the Polo Family.

—Marco Polo e la sua famiglia. (Ibid., xvii. 1879, pp. 359–362.)

Letters of Comm. G. Berchet and Yule regarding these documents.

67. HOUTUM-SCHINDLER, Gen. Notes on Marco Polo’s Itinerary in Southern Persia (Chapters xvi. to xxi., Col. Yule’s Translation). (Jour. R. As. Soc., N.S., vol. xiii. Art. XX. Oct. 1881, pp. 490–497.)

—————————— Marco Polo’s Camadi. (Ibid., Jan. 1898, pp. 43–46.)

68. THOMSON, J. T. Marco Polo’s Six Kingdoms or Cities in Java Minor, identified in translations from the ancient Malay Annals, by J. T. T., Commissioner of Crown Lands, Otago, 1875. (Proc. R. G. Soc., XX. 1875–1876, pp. 215–224.)

Translation from the “Salafat al Salatin perturan segala rajaraja,” or Malay Annals.

69. K. C. AMREIN. Marco Polo: Oeffentlicher Vortrag, gehalten in der Geographisch-Kommerziellen Gesellschaft in St. Gallen. Zurich, 1879, 8vo.

70. VIDAL-LABLACHE, PAUL. Bibliothèque des Écoles et des Familles.—Marco Polo, son temps et ses voyages. Paris, 1880, 8vo, pp. 192.

There is a second edition.

71. G. M. URBANI DE GHELTOF. III. Congresso Geografico Internazionale in Venezia.—La Collezione del Doge Marin Faliero e i tesori di Marco Polo. Venezia, 1881, 8vo, pp. 8.

From the Bulletino di Arti, industrie e curiosità veneziane III. pp. 98–103.—See Int. p. 79.

72. SEGUSO, L. La Casa dei Milioni o l’abitazione di Marco Polo. (Venezia e il Congresso, 1881.)

73. CORDIER, HENRI. Maison de Marco Polo [à Venise.] (Revue de l’Extrême-Orient, i. No. 1, p. 157); Statue de Marco Polo. (Revue de l’Extrême-Orient, i. No. 1, pp. 156–157.)

74. Illustrazione Italiana, No. 38, Sept. 18, 1881.

75. YULE, Sir HENRY. Marco Polo. (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1885, 9th ed., xix. pp. 404–409.)

76. SCHUMANN, Dr. K. Marco Polo, ein Weltreisender des XIII. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, 1885. 8vo, pp. 32.

Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenschaftlicher Vorträge, herausgegeben von Rud. Virchow und Fr. von Holtzendorff. XX. Serie. Heft 460.

77. Marco Polo. (Blackwood’s Mag., clxii. Sept. 1887, pp. 373–386.)

(Rep. in Littell’s Living Age, Boston, CLXXV., p. 195.)

78. EDKINS, JOSEPH. Kan Fu. (China Review, xv. pp. 310–331.)

79. OLIPHANT, Mrs.—The Makers of Venice. London, 1887, 8vo.