Volume containing several works; and among them Marchi (Pauli)
Veneti Liber Narrationum Morum, etc.
Paper; written 1448 by Tilman Pluntshe, "canonicus ecclesie SS.
Chresanti et Darie monasterii Eyfflic."
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 Dona 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 end: "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. Nicolo 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 dictur "El Milione."
This looks as if it were not Pipino's.
Note by the Abate S.B. Mondino.
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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.
