Expleto ad CCCCXLVI mensis setembris die
vigesimo-octavo."
These extracts indicate that it belongs to the same type as the Sloane
MS. No. 6, in our list.
Note by Comm. Nicolo Barozzi, Director of the Museo Civico at Venice.
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FERRARA
Public Library, No. 35n (336, N.B. 5)
Italian, with a Venetian tinge.
Incipit prologus Libri qui vulgari hominum dictur "El Milione."
This looks as if it were not Pipino's.
Note by the Abate S.B. Mondino.
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MILAN
Ambrosian Library, M. 526, Sc. D.
Latin.
Fragments extracted from Pipino's version inserted at end of 2nd part of
the Cronica Libri Ymaginis Mundi of Fr. Jacopo d'Acqui. (Vol. i.
Int., Captivity of M. Polo.)
Paper, folio. 14th century.
Lazari.
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MODENA
Este Library
Latin.
Pipino's Parchment of 14th century. Muratori speaks of this.
(Script. VII.) as "fortassis autographum."
Muratoni; and Prof. Bianconi, Degli Scritta di Marco Polo, etc.
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FLORENCE
Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Nationale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV. c. 104
Italian (Tuscan).
The Crusca MS., of which an account has been given, vol. i. Int.,
Original Language of the Book.
Paper, folio, early in 14th century.
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FLORENCE
Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Nazionale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV. c. 73
Itailian.
Many liberties taken with the text, and much abridged and disarranged.
Thus, after the Prologue it proceeds: "Al nome di Dio io Marcho Polo
Veneziano raccontero tutte le maravigliose chose ch'io trovai e
vidi, etc. etc." It ends the chapter on Russia with the following
impertinence: "E se volete sapere piu innanzi dimandatene un altro
ch'io Marcho Polo non cercai piu avanti." The Khalif is called
Largaliffe; Reobarles, Reubarbe, with a marginal note in
an old hand, "Reubarbe citta di Persia, donde viene il reubarbero
herba medicinale." Completed by Dolfo Spini, 16th July, 1425. Paper.
Belonged to the Strozzi Collection.
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FLORENCE
Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Nazionale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV., c. 61
Italian.
This corresponds to the Pucci MS. noted below (No. 47). It
contains the colophon quoted at vol. i. Int., Some Estimate of Polo
and his Book, p. 115, note.
Paper, folio, 1392, 100 ff. of which the first 40 contain Polo.
Not well written.
Ex. Bibl. Gaddiana.
*Baldelli-Boni.
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FLORENCE
Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Naxionale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV., c. 136
Italian.
Both beginning and end are missing. Slightly different from the Crusca.
14th century.
*Baldelli-Boni.
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FLORENCE
Riccardian Library
Italian.
Ends with chapter on Russia. Followed by an extract of Mandevile and a
valuable coll. of geographical documents of 15th century and beginning
of 16th.
Paper 4to, 16th century.
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45
FLORENCE
Riccardian Library
Latin.
Pipino's; but reaching only to Bk. III. ch. 31.
Paper, 14th century.
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46
FLORENCE
Riccardian Library, No. 1924.
Italian (Ven. dialect).
Partial and defective transcript under the title of Itinerario di
Levante.
G. Uzielli, Note.
47
FLORENCE
Library of Pucci family
Italian.
See remarks at vol. i. Int., Various Types of the Text. Completed
20th Nov. 1391.
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48
FLORENCE
Bib. Palatina (now united to Nazionale), 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."
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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 nobile
homo 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.
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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
assume that it is the same that I saw.
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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.
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ROME
Vatican Library, No. 2935
Latin.
An old Latin abridgment of Polo, entitled 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.
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54
ROME
Vatican Library, No. 5260
Latin.
Pipino's. Very clearly and regularly written. Apparently 15th cent.
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55
ROME
Barberini Library, XXXIV. 4
Latin.
A MS. volume, containing Ricold of Monte Croce; Tractatus divisionis et
ambitus Orbis 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.
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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.
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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.
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ROME
Corsini Library, No.
