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Lxviii-lxix.].

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4 British Museum Library Bib. Reg. XIX., D.I. French.

[Contains eight works: Le livre d'Alexandre; Jehan le Venelais, la Vengeance d'Alexandre; Marc Pol; Odoric; Ascelin, Mission chez les Tartares; le Directoire; Primat, Chronique des regnes de Louis IX. et de Philippe III.; Extraits de la Bible; Translation of Jean de Vignay. (See H. Cordier, Odoric, pp. cv.-cvi.; 14th century.)].

Paul Meyer, Doc. ms. de l'ancienne litt. de la France, 1871, pp. 69-80

5 British Museum Library Additional MSS., No. 19, 952 Plut. cxcii. B. Latin.

Pipino's

Paper, small 4to. - 111 ff.

Appended, f. 85 et seqq., is a notice of Mahommed and the Koran: Incipit Noticia de Machometo et de Libro Legis Sarracenorum, etc. Appears to be the work of William of Tripoli. (See vol. i. p. 23.). Purchased of D. Henry Wolff, 12th August, 1854.

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6 British Museum Library Sloane MSS., No. 251 Italian dialect.

Paper, small fol. 39 ff. A good deal abridged, and in a desperately difficult handwriting; but notable as being the only MS. besides the Geog. Text which contains the war of Toctai and Nogai at the end of the Book. It does not, however, contain the majority of the historical chapters forming our Book IV.

At the f. 39 v., is "Esplizzit Liber Milionis Ziuis Veneziani Questo libro scrissi Saluador Paxuti(?) del=1457 a viazo di Baruti [Patron Misser Cabual Volanesso, chapit. Misser Polo Barbarigo]." (The latter words [in part. - H.C.] from Marsden; being to me illegible).

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7 British Museum Library Egerton, 2176 French.

Translated from the Latin version of Pipino.

Parchment, 103 folio, 4to. Illuminated Capital Letters. Purchased of R. Townley Nordman, 22nd June, 1872.

Yule, 2nd ed., II p. 517.

8 OXFORD. Bodleian, No. 264. French.

This is bound up with the celebrated Alexander MS. It is a beautiful work, embellished with thirty-eight miniatures, some of which are exquisite, e.g., the Frontispiece, a large piece of about 9-1/2 in., forming a sort of condensed view of the Field of Travel; a large part of it occupied by VENICE, of which our cut (The Piazzetta) in vol. i., p. 18, Introduction, is an extract. Another fine work (f. 220) represents the three Polos presenting the Pope's Letter to the Khan. The embroidered hands on the Khan's robe form an inscription, in which is legible "Johannes me facit." This Mr. Coxe attributes to John of Cologne, a known artist of the 14th century. He considers the MS. to be of about 1380. The Alexander is dated 1338, and its illuminations as finished in 1344 by Jehan de Gruse. [See supra, p. 528, note.]

A comparison of a good many readings, as well as of the point where the version breaks off, and the words: "Explicii la Livre nomme du Gerunt Gann de la Graunt Cite de Cambaluc, Dieux ayda Amien," indicate that this MS. is of the same type as Pauthier's C (No. 20 in this List) and the Bern.

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