The Travels of Marco Polo Volume I Part 11

See end of _Memoir_ in present work.

---- Le Colonel Sir Henry Yule. Par M. Henri Cordier. Extrait du _Journal Asiatique_. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, MDCCCXC, in-8, pp. 26.

---- The same, _Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie_. Par M. Henri Cordier. 1890, 8vo, pp. 4.

Meeting 17th Jan. 1890.

1889 Baron F. von Richthofen. (_Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft fur Erdkunde zu Berlin_, xvii. 2.)

---- Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I. Memoir by General R.

Maclagan, _Journ. R. Asiatic Society_, 1890.

---- Memoir of Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I., LL.D., etc.

By Coutts Trotter. (_Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh_, 1891. p. xliii. to p. lvi.)

1889 Sir Henry Yule (1820-1889). By Coutts Trotter. (_Dict. of National Biography_, lxiii. pp. 405-407.)

1903 Memoir of Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I., Corr. Inst.

France, by his daughter, Amy Frances Yule, L.A.Soc. Ant. Scot., etc.

Written for third edition of Yule's Marco Polo. Reprinted for private circulation only.

[1] This list is based on the excellent preliminary List compiled by E.

Delmar Morgan, published in the _Scottish Geographical Magazine_, vol.

vi., pp. 97-98, but the present compilers have much more than doubled the number of entries. It is, however, known to be still incomplete, and any one able to add to the list, will greatly oblige the compilers by sending additions to the Publisher.--A. F. Y.

SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.

MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.

INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.

I. OBSCURITIES IN THE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND BOOK. RAMUSIO'S STATEMENTS

-- 1. Obscurities, etc. 2. Ramusio his earliest Biographer; his Account of Polo. 3. He vindicates Polo's Geography. 4. Compares him with Columbus. 5. Recounts a Tradition of the Traveller's Return to Venice.

6. Recounts Marco's Capture by the Genoese. 7. His statements about Marco's liberation and marriage. 8. His account of the Family Polo and its termination.

II. SKETCH OF THE STATE OF THE EAST AT THE TIME OF THE JOURNEYS OF THE POLO FAMILY

-- 9. State of the Levant. 10. The various Mongol Sovereignties in Asia and Eastern Europe. 11. China. 12. India and Indo-China.

III. THE POLO FAMILY. PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLERS TILL THEIR FINAL RETURN FROM THE EAST

-- 13. Alleged origin of the Polos. 14. Claims to n.o.bility. 15. The Elder Marco Polo. 16. Nicolo and Maffeo Polo commence their Travels. 17. Their intercourse with Kublai Kaan. 18. Their return home, and Marco's appearance on the scene. 19. Second Journey of the Polo Brothers, accompanied by Marco. (See App. L. 1.) 20. Marco's Employment by Kublai Kaan; and his Journeys. 21. Circ.u.mstances of the departure of the Polos from the Kaan's Court. 22. They pa.s.s by Persia to Venice. Their relations there.

IV. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE MANSION OF THE POLO FAMILY AT S. GIOVANNI GRISOSTOMO

-- 23. Probable period of their establishment at S. Giovanni Grisostomo.

24. Relics of the Casa Polo in the Corte Sabbionera. 24a. Recent corroboration as to traditional site of the Casa Polo.

V. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE WAR-GALLEYS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN STATES IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

-- 25. Arrangement of the Rowers in Mediaeval Galleys; a separate Oar to every Man. 26. Change of System in 16th Century. 27. Some details of 13th-Century Galleys. 28. Fighting Arrangements. 29. Crew of a Galley and Staff of a Fleet. 30. Music and miscellaneous particulars.

VI. THE JEALOUSIES AND NAVAL WARS OF VENICE AND GENOA. LAMBA DORIA'S EXPEDITION TO THE ADRIATIC; BATTLE OF CURZOLA; AND IMPRISONMENT OF MARCO POLO BY THE GENOESE

-- 31. Growing Jealousies and Outbreaks between the Republics. 32. Battle in Bay of Ayas in 1294. 33. Lamba Doria's Expedition to the Adriatic.

34. The Fleets come in sight of each other at Curzola. 35. The Venetians defeated, and Marco Polo a Prisoner. 36. Marco Polo in Prison dictates his Book to Rusticiano of Pisa. Release of Venetian Prisoners. 37.

Grounds on which the story of Marco Polo's capture at Curzola rests.

VII. RUSTICIANO OR RUSTICh.e.l.lO OF PISA, MARCO POLO'S FELLOW-PRISONER AT GENOA, THE SCRIBE WHO WROTE DOWN THE TRAVELS

-- 38. Rusticiano, perhaps a Prisoner from Meloria. 39. A Person known from other sources. 40. Character of his Romance Compilations.

41. Ident.i.ty of the Romance Compiler with Polo's Fellow-Prisoner.

42. Further particulars regarding Rusticiano.

VIII. NOTICES OF MARCO POLO'S HISTORY AFTER THE TERMINATION OF HIS IMPRISONMENT AT GENOA

-- 43. Death of Marco's Father before 1300. Will of his Brother Maffeo.

44. Doc.u.mentary Notices of Polo at this time. The Sobriquet of _Milione_. 45. Polo's relations with Thibault de Cepoy. 46. His Marriage, and his Daughters. Marco as a Merchant. 47. His Last Will; and Death. 48. Place of Sepulture. Professed Portraits of Polo. 49. Further History of the Polo Family. 49 _bis_. Reliques of Marco Polo.

IX. MARCO POLO'S BOOK; AND THE LANGUAGE IN WHICH IT WAS FIRST WRITTEN

-- 50. General Statement of what the Book contains. 51. Language of the original Work. 52. Old French Text of the Societe de Geographie.

53. Conclusive proof that the Old French Text is the source of all the others. 54. Greatly diffused employment of French in that age.

X. VARIOUS TYPES OF TEXT OF MARCO POLO'S BOOK

-- 55. Four Princ.i.p.al Types of Text. _First_, that of the Geographic or Oldest French. 56. _Second_, the Remodelled French Text; followed by Pauthier. 57. The Bern MS. and two others form a sub-cla.s.s of this type.

58. _Third_, Friar Pipino's Latin. 59. The Latin of Grynaeus, a Translation at Fifth Hand. 60. _Fourth_, Ramusio's Italian.

61. Injudicious Tamperings in Ramusio. 62. Genuine Statements peculiar to Ramusio. 63. Hypothesis of the Sources of the Ramusian Version. 64.

Summary in regard to Text of Polo. 65. Notice of a curious Irish Version.

XI. SOME ESTIMATE OF THE CHARACTER OF POLO AND HIS BOOK

-- 66. Grounds of Polo's Pre-eminence among Mediaeval Travellers.

67. His true claims to glory. 68. His personal attributes seen but dimly. 69. Absence of scientific notions. 70. Map constructed on Polo's data. 71. Singular omissions of Polo in regard to China; historical inaccuracies. 72. Was Polo's Book materially affected by the Scribe Rusticiano? 73. Marco's reading embraced the Alexandrian Romances.