[9] Uzzano in Della Decima, IV. 124.
[10] According to Gallicciolli (II. 53) piccoli (probably in the vague sense of small copper coin) were called in the Levant τορνέσια.
[11] Thus in the document containing the autograph of King Hayton, presented at p. 13 of Introductory Essay, the King gives with his daughter, “Damoiselle Femie,” a dowry of 25,000 besans sarrazinas, and in payment 4 of his own bezants staurats (presumably so called from bearing a cross) are to count as one Saracen Bezant. (Cod. Diplomat. del S. Mil. Ord. Gerosolim. I. 134.)
Appendix L.—Sundry Supplementary Notes on Special Subjects.—(H. C.)
- —The Polos at Acre.
- —Sorcery in Kashmir.
- —Paonano Pao.
- —Pamir.
- —Number of Pamirs.
- —Site of Pein.
- —Fire-arms.
- —La Couvade.
- —Alacan.
- —Champa.
- —Ruck Quills.
- —A Spanish Edition of Marco Polo.
- —Sir John Mandeville.
1.—The Polos at Acre. (Vol. i. p. 19. Int.)
M. le Comte Riant (Itin. à Jérusalem, p. xxix.) from various data thinks the two sojourns of the Polos at Acre must have been between the 9th May, 1271, date of the arrival of Edward of England and of Tedaldo Visconti, and the 18th November, 1271, time of the departure of Tedaldo. Tedaldo was still in Paris on the 28th December, 1269, and he appears to have left for the Holy Land after the departure of S. Lewis for Tunis (2nd July, 1270).—H. C.