The Travels of Marco Polo Volume II Part 88

48 FLORENCE Bib. Palatina (now united to n.a.z.ionale), Cod. 572 Italian.

The language differs slightly from that of the Crusca, and, where I have compared it, is less compressed. Ends with _Rossia_.

Paper, small 4to, 14th century.

Written somewhat roughly in a very old hand. Rustician is _Messer Restazo da Pisa_. The Grand Kaan gives the Polo's a "tovaglia _d'Oro_."

49 LUCCA Bib. governativa, Coll. (Lucchesini, Giacomo), No. 26 (now No. 296) Italian (Ven. dialect).

Corresponds to the corrupt Venice epitome published in 1496. Contains also Odorico.

[Ends:--"_Complito el libro de le cosse mirabile vedute per lo n.o.bile h.o.m.o Messer Marcho Polo gientelomo de Venesia a di 12 de Marzo 1465 per mi Daniele da Verona in sul Ponte de' Berettiari al onore e laude dell' Omnipotente._"

Paper, 4to, 75 ff.

_H. Cordier_, _Odoric_, pp. xcvi.-xcviii.]

_Baldelli-Boni_.

50 SIENA Public Library, c. V 14 Italian.

This is a miscellaneous MS. which, among other things; contains a fragment of Polo, "Qui comicio ellibro di Missere Macho Polo da Vinegia de le cose maniglose che trovo p lo mondo," etc. It calls Rusticiano _Missere Stacio da Pisa_.--N.B.--Baldelli gives a very similar description of a fragment at Sienna, but under press mark A. IV. 8. I a.s.sume that it is the same that I saw.

51 ROME Vatican Library, Cod. 2207, _Ottoboniano_ French.

A fragment, going no further than the chapter on Georgia, and ending thus: "Autre chose ne vous en scay dire parquoi je vous fois fin en ce livre; le nom de notre Seigneur soi benoist et de sa benoiste Mere.

Amen. Loys de Luxembourg."

Parchment, 14 cent.

_Baldelli-Boni_.

52 ROME Vatican Library, No. 2935 Latin.

An old Latin abridgment of Polo, ent.i.tled _De Mirabilibus Mundi_.

The same volume contains a tract, _De Mirabilibus Romae_, to which also Polo's name is given.

Paper, 14th cent.

_Baldelli-Boni_ and _Lazari_.

53 ROME Vatican Library, No. 3153 Latin.

Pipino's. Very neat and clean; apparently of 14th cent.

Parchment.

54 ROME Vatican Library, No. 5260 Latin.

Pipino's. Very clearly and regularly written. Apparently 15th cent.

55 ROME Barberini Library, x.x.xIV. 4 Latin.

A MS. volume, containing Ricold of Monte Croce; Tractatus divisionis et ambitus...o...b..s Terrarum, etc.; Liber de divisione Orbis Terrarum; Libellus de Mirabilibus Urbis Romae; and "_Incipit de Morum et Gentium Varietatibus editus a Marcho Polo Veneto._" It is very cramply written, much compressed, and has no division into books or chapters.

Ends with "_Roscia, provincia maxima._" "_Explicit libellus editus a Dno. Marcho Polo de Venetiis de diversis provinciis et gentibus mundi, et earum ritibus et moribus diversis et artibus._"

Parchment, large thin 4to, 14th cent.

56 ROME Barberini Library, LVIII. 40 Italian (Venetian dial).

This is the fragment spoken of, vol. i. p. 101, note. It is a transcript made apparently in the 17th cent., from a MS. written in 1465.

57 ROME Barberini Library, No. 934 Italian.

I give this on Baldelli's authority. I did not see it on my visit to the Barberini.

_Baldelli-Boni_.

58 ROME Corsini Library, No. 1111 Italian(?).

_Baldelli-Boni_.

59 ROME Chigi Library, M. VI. 140 Italian.