[770] Mullers Samlung Russischer Geschichte, vi. p. 491. Fischers Sibirische Geschichte. St. Petersb. 1768, 8vo, p. 290.
[771] Du Cange, in his observations on Joinville, p. 137, thinks that the zebelinæ or sabelinæ pelles came from Zibel or Zibelet, a maritime town in Palestine, formerly called Biblium, because the skins were sent from it to Europe. This author meant Byblus, at present Gibelet or Gibeletto; but this derivation appears to me highly improbable.
[772] Epigram. x. 37, 18.
[773] Trier’s Wapen-Kunst, p. 62.—Gatterers Heraldik. p. 41.
[774] Grauwerk veh or feh means properly a kind of fur, composed of that of the Siberian squirrel and the marten joined together.—Trans.
[775] Antiquit. Ital. Medii Ævi, ii. p. 413.
[776] See the passages quoted by Du Cange, and what Gesner has said in Histor. Animal. under the head Cuniculus.
[777] Rapin’s England.
[778] See this article in Du Cange and Hoffmann’s Lexicon.
[779] Marco Polo.