- - 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
Sec. 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
Sec. 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
Sec. 13. Alleged origin of the Polos. 14. Claims to Nobility. 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. Circumstances of the departure of the Polos
from the Kaan's Court. 22. They pass by Persia to Venice. Their
relations there.
IV. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE MANSION OF THE POLO FAMILY AT S. GIOVANNI
GRISOSTOMO
Sec. 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.
Sec. 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
Sec. 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 RUSTICHELLO OF PISA, MARCO POLO'S FELLOW-PRISONER AT
GENOA, THE SCRIBE WHO WROTE DOWN THE TRAVELS
Sec. 38. Rusticiano, perhaps a Prisoner from Meloria. 39. A Person known
from other sources. 40. Character of his Romance Compilations.
41. Identity 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
Sec. 43. Death of Marco's Father before 1300. Will of his Brother Maffeo.
44. Documentary 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
Sec. 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
Sec. 55. Four Principal 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-class 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
Sec. 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.
Examples. 74. Injustice long done to Polo.
