50. Couriers arrive before Kaan (f. 46 v.).
51. The Kaan transplants big Trees (f. 47 v.).
52. The Bridge Pulisangin (f. 49).
53. The Golden King as a Cow-herd (f. 50).
54. Trade on the Caramoran (f. 51).
55. The Girls of Tibet (f. 52 v.).
56. Fishing Pearls in Caindu (f. 54).
57. Dragons of Carajan (f. 55 v.).
58. Battle of Vochan (f. 58).
59. The Forests of Mien, Elephants in the Wood (f. 59).
60. " " and Unicorns, etc. (f. 59 v.).
61. Lion hunting in Coloman (f. 61).
62. Return from the Chase (f. 62 v.).
63. The Queen of Manzi surrenders (f. 64).
64. The City of Quinsai (f. 67).
65. The Receipt of Custom at Quinsai (f. 69).
66. Curiosities brought from India to Great Kaan (f. 71).
67. War with Chipangu (f. 72).
68. Scene at Sea (an Expedition to Chipangu?) (f. 73 v.).
69. Cannibals of Sumatra (f. 74 v.).
70. Cynocephali (rather Alopecocephali!) (f. 76 v.).
71. The folk of Ma'abar, without raiment (f. 78).
72. Idol worship of Indian girls (f. 80).
73. The Valley of Diamonds (f. 82).
74. Brahmin Merchants (f. 83).
75. Pepper gathering (f. 84).
76. Wild Beasts (f. 85).
77. City of Cambaia (f. 86 v.).
78. Male and Female Islands (f. 87).
79. Madagascar (f. 88).
80. Battle of the Abyssinian Kings (f. 89 v.)
81. City of the Ichthyophagi (f. 91).
82. Arab horses at Calatu (f. 92).
83. Wars of Caidu (f. 93 v.).
84. Prowess of Caidu's daughter (f. 95 v.).[1]
LIST OF MINIATURES IN THE BODLEIAN MS. OF MARCO POLO.[2]
1. Frontispiece (f. 218).
2. The Kaan giving the Golden Tablet.
3. Presentation of Pope's Letter.
4. Taking of Baudas.
5. The Bishop before the Calif.
6. The Three Kings at Bethlehem.
7. White Oxen of Kerman.
8. Paradise of the Old Man.
9. River of Balashan.
10. City of Campichu.
11. Battle with Prester John.
12. Tartars and their Idols.
13. The Kaan in his Park at Chandu.
14. Idol Worship.
15. Battle with Nayan.
16. Death of the Rebels.
17. Kaan rewarding his Officers.
18. " at Table.
19. " hunting.
20. The Kaan and his Barons.
21. The Kaan's alms.
22. City of Kenjanfu.
23. " " Sindinfu.
24. People of Carajan.
25. The Couvade.
26. Gold and Silver Towers of Mien.
27. Funeral Customs.
28. The Great River Kian?
29. The Attack of Saianfu (with a Cannon, a Mangonel, and a Crossbow).
30. City of Quinsay.
31. Palace of Facfur.
32. Port of Zayton.
33. Cynocephali.
34. "
35. Idolaters of Little Java.
36. Pearl Divers.
37. Shrine of St. Thomas.
38. The Six Kings, subject to Abyssinia.
Part of the Frontispiece is engraved in vol. i. of the present work; the
whole of the Frontispiece representing the Piazzetta reduced has been
poorly reproduced in Mrs. Oliphant's The Makers of Venice. London, 1887,
p. 134.
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 Historiographum; 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.].
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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 regnes 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.
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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 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).
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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 9-1/2
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.
