Qualiter et quare dominus | nicholaus
pauli de venetijs, et dominus marchus [rubric] | T [blue and red
illuminated initial with minute spread eagle in centre] Empore quo
transierunt ad partes [last three words rubric] | balduinus princeps
orientales. [last words rubric.]
Ends (14, 1 r'o, lines 26, 27): et diuersas prouincias deferuntur.
Explicit liber domini | marci pauli de venetis de diuisionibus et
consuetudinibus orientalium.
2. Odoric.
II., p. 534.
PARIS, see No. 18 - Bibliotheque Nationale Departement des
Manuscrits - Livre des Merveilles, Odoric de Pordenone, Mandeville, Hayton,
etc. - Reproduction des 265 miniatures du Manuscrit francais 2810 de la
Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris, Imprimerie Berthaud freres, 31, rue de
Bellefond, 2 vol. in 8.
Marco Polo, Planches, 1-84.
II., p. 539.
ANTWERP, Museum Plantin-Moretus. Exhibited in Room III., No. 61:
Extraits du Livre de Marco Polo de Venise et d'un livre sur l'origine de
quelques villes belges.
132 leaves; 185 x 270 millimeters, XVth Century. Adorned initials,
alternately blue and red. Headings of chapters underlined in red. Leather
binding XVIth century, with small flowers de luce; copper clasps and ten
nails. On the last leaf, in a running hand: Este liber partinet Nicholao
le buqueteur; the name of Abraham Vander Veken (Abra Vander Veque), and
the date 1600, 3/22, on the first and on the last but one leaves.
Fol. 2 recto. Extracta de libro dni Pauli de Venecijs de diver sis
provincijs et regnis maior[um] et de diversis moribus habitantiu[m] et de
multis mirabilibus in hijs locis et Asije.
