The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

by Marco Polo; da Pisa Rusticiano

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.).[1]

List of Miniatures in the Bodleian MS. of Marco Polo.[2]

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.

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Appendix F.—List of MSS. of Marco Polo’s Book so far as they are known.[3]

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	[Contains eight works: Le livre d’Alexandre; Jehan le Venelais, la Vengeance d’Alexandre; Marc Pol; Odoric; Ascelin, Mission chez les Tartares; le Directoire; Primat, Chronique des règnes de Louis IX. et de Philippe III.; Extraits de la Bible; Translation of Jean de Vignay. (See H. Cordier, Odoric, pp. cv.–cvi.; 14th century.)].	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.	[P. Meyer, Romania, XI., 1882, pp. 290–301. E. W. B. Nicholson; Personal.—H. C.]
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?)[4] 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. [Ends:—“Complito el libro de le cosse mirabile vedute per lo nobile homo Messer Marcho Polo gientelomo de Venesia a di 12 de Marzo 1465 per mi Daniele da Verona in sul Ponte de’ Berettari al onore e laude dell’Omnipotente.” Paper, 4to, 75 ff. H. Cordier, Odoric, pp. xcvi.–xcviii.]	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	[A double sheet; parchment, and of 14th century. Fragment: 1st sheet, end of chap. 121 and greater part of chap. 122; 2nd sheet, end of chap. 134, chaps. 135, 136, 137, and beginning of chap. 138 of Pauthier’s ed. Very similar to the text of the Stockholm MS. Our No. 84.—H. C.]	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	[Contains: Polo (Pipino’s version) f. 1–57 verso; Odoric; Ricold; Boldensel.—Ricold was published by Mr. J. C. Laurent: Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor. Lipsiae, 1864. Paper, 15th cent., fol., ff. 110.]	H. Cordier, Odoric, pp. lxxiv.–lxxv.
75	Wolfenbüttel	Ducal Library, No. 41, Weissemburg	Latin	[Contains: Ciceronis orationes in Verrem; Chronicon Flandriae; R. Bacon, de regionibus ad papam Clementem; Marco Polo, ff. 122–160 verso; Ricold; Jacques de Vitry; Odoric; Plano Carpini. Paper 15th cent, fol., ff. 253.]	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.

[1] ✛ 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.

[2] [Mr. E. W. B. Nicholson, who thought at first that this MS. was written at the end of the 14th century, in his Introduction to Early Bodleian Music, by J. F. R. Stainer and C. Stainer, London, 1901, has come to the conclusion (p. xviii.) that it belongs to the first half of the 15th century. I agree with him. Mr. Nicholson thinks that the writing is English, and that the miniatures are by a Flemish artist; Mr. Holmes, the King’s Librarian, believes that both writing and miniatures are English. This MS. came into the Bodleian Library between 1598 and 1605, and was probably given by Sir Thomas Bodley himself.—H. C.]