- + The appearance of the Great Kaan's letter may be illustrated
by two letters on so-called Corean paper preserved in the French archives;
one from Arghun Khan of Persia (1289), brought by Buscarel, and the other
from his son Oljaitu (May, 1305), to Philip the Fair.
These are both in
the Mongol language, and according to Abel Remusat and other authorities,
in the Uighur character, the parent of the present Mongol writing.
Facsimiles of the letters are given in Remusat's paper on intercourse with
Mongol Princes, in Mem. de l' Acad. des Inscript. vols. vii. and viii.,
reproductions in J. B. Chabot's Hist. de Mar Jabalaha III., Paris, 1895,
and preferably in Prince Roland Bonaparte's beautiful Documents Mongols,
Pl. XIV., and we give samples of the two in vol. ii.[1]
NOTE 2. - "The Seven Arts," from a date reaching back nearly to classical
times, and down through the Middle Ages, expressed the whole circle of a
liberal education, and it is to these Seven Arts that the degrees in arts
were understood to apply. They were divided into the Trivium of
Rhetoric, Logic, and Grammar, and the Quadrivium of Arithmetic,
Astronomy, Music, and Geometry. The 38th epistle of Seneca was in many
MSS. (according to Lipsius) entitled "L. Annaei Senecae Liber de Septem
Artibus liberalibus." I do not find, however, that Seneca there mentions
categorically more than five, viz., Grammar, Geometry, Music, Astronomy,
and Arithmetic. In the 5th century we find the Seven Arts to form the
successive subjects of the last seven books of the work of Martianus
Capella, much used in the schools during the early Middle Ages.
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