Chapter CXXIII: 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 115_l._ 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.

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[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.]

[3] [This List was printed in vol. ii. pp. 449–462 of the first
edition of the Book, but was omitted in the second edition. My
own experience has shown me the usefulness of this table, which
contains 85 MSS. instead of 75, and some additional particulars.—H.
C.]

[4] [Ser Petri de Faganea (Fagagna, in Friuli).—H. C.]