MDCCCLXXXIX., large 4to, pp.
xlvi.+232+28 miniatures.
[29] There are in the British Museum twenty-nine MSS. of Mandeville, of
which ten are French, nine English, six Latin, three German, and one
Irish. Cf. Warner, p. x.
[30] Cf. Warner, p. 61.
[31] Mayence, Chapter's Library: "Incipit Itinerarius fidelis Fratris
ODERICI, socii Militis Mendavil, per Indiam." - Wolfenbuettel,
Ducal Library, No. 40, Weissemburg: "Incipit itinerarius fratris
ODERICI socii militis Mandauil per Indiam." - HENRI CORDIER, Odoric
de Pordenone, p. lxxii. and p. lxxv.
[32] Purchas, His Pilgrimes, 3rd Pt., London, 1625: "and, O that it
were possible to doe as much for our Countriman Mandeuil, who next (if
next) was the greatest Asian Traueller that euer the World had, &
hauing falne amongst theeues, neither Priest, nor Leuite can know him,
neither haue we hope of a Samaritan to releeue him."
[33] Astley (iv. p. 620): "The next Traveller we meet with into
Tartary, and the Eastern Countries, after Marco Polo, is Friar
Odoric, of Udin in Friuli, a Cordelier; who set-about the Year
1318, and at his Return the Relation of it was drawn-up, from his own
Mouth, by Friar William of Solanga, in 1330. Ramusio has
inserted it in Italian, in the second Volume of his Collection; as
Hakluyt, in his Navigations, has done the Latin, with an English
Translation. This is a most superficial Relation, and full of Lies;
such as People with the Heads of Beasts, and Valleys haunted with
Spirits:
