Von Dem Auffgang [Left] Pis Zu Dem Nydergag Der Sunne.

Der gleyche vor nicht meer gehort seyn. [See p. 555.]

Recto f. 2, begins:

Hie hebt sich an das puch des edeln Ritters vn landtfarers || Marcho polo. In dem er schreibt die grossen wunderlichen || ding dieser welt. Sunderlichen von den grossen kunigen vnd || keysern die da herschen in den selbigen landen | vnd von irem || volck vnd seiner gewonheit da selbs.

Verso f. 58: Hie endet sich das puch des edeln Ritters und landtfarerz || Marcho polo | das do sagt vo mangerley wunder der landt || vn lewt | vn wie er die selbigen gesehen vn durch faren hat || von de auffgang pisz zu dem nydergang der sune Seliglich.

Disz hat gedruckt Fricz Creiszner zu Nurmberg Nach cristi || gepurdt Tausent vierhundert vn im siben vn sibenczigte iar.

[Illustration: Frontispiece of the first German Edition.]

The copy which I have examined is in the Grenville Library, No. 6787. (Vide Bib. Grenvilliana, Part II. p. 305.) When Marsden edited his Marco Polo, Grenville did not possess this edition. The only known copy was in the Vienna Imperial Library, but was without the portrait. Grenville had made a transcript spoken of by Marsden, pp. lxx.-lxxi., which we describe infra. "When Mr. Marsden," says Grenville in a MS. note at the beginning of this fine volume, "published his translation of this work, the only known copy of this first German Edition was in the Imperial Library at Vienna, and I had a literal transcript made from it: Since that time a second copy was found and sold by Payne and Foss to Lord Spencer:

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