It is a small 8vo ff. 84;
each quire containing, as is indicated by the register, eight sheets,
except quire 1, 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 Abbe 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, p'e 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
pero 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: Tractate delle piu maraueliose cose e delle
piu notabile: che si ri || trouano nelle pte del modo.
