The notary here is the same who made the official record of the document last cited.

[This document was kept in the Archives of the Istituto degli Esposti, now transferred to the Archivio di Stato, and was found by the Ab.  Cav.  V. Zanetti, and published by him in the Archivio Veneto, XVI., 1878, pp. 98-100; parchment, 1157, filza I.; Marco Polo the traveller, according to a letter of the 16th March, 1306, had made in 1304, a loan of 20 lire di grossi to his cousin Nicolo, son of Marco the elder; the sum remaining unpaid at the death of Nicolo, his son and heir Marcolino became the debtor, and by order of the Doge Giovanni Soranzo, Marco Galetti, according to a sentence of the Giudici del Mobile, of the 2nd July, transferred to the traveller Marco on the 10th September, 1319, duas proprietates que sunt hospicia et camere posite in ... confinio sancti Ihoanis grisostomi que fuerunt Nicolai Paulo.  This Document is important, as it shows the exact position of Marcolino in the family.—­H.C.]

7.—­(1323).

Document concerning House Property in S. Giovanni Grisostomo, adjoining the Property of the Polo Family, and sold by the Lady Donata to her husband Marco Polo.  Dated May, 1323.

See No. 16 below.

8.—­(1324).

    Will of MARCO POLO. (In St. Mark’s Library.)[4]

In Nomine Dei Eterni Amen.  Anno ab Incarnatione Dni.  Nri.  Jhu.  Xri.
    millesimo trecentesimo vige-
simo tertio, mensis Januarii die nono,[5] intrante Indictione septima,
    Rivoalti. 
Divine inspiracionis donum est et provide mentis arbitrium ut antequam
    superve-
niat mortis iudicium quilibet sua bona sit ordinare sollicitus ne ipsa
sua bona inordinata remaneant.  Quapropter ego quidem MARCUS PAULO
de confinio Sancti Johannis Chrysostomi, dum cotidie debilitarer propter
    infirmitatem cor-
poris, sanus tamen per Dei gratiam mente, integroque consilio et sensu,
    timens ne ab in-
testato decederem, et mea bona inordinata remanerent, vocari ad me
feci JOHANEM JUSTINIANUM presbiterum Sancti Proculi et Notarium, ipsumque
    rogavi quatenus hoc meum
scriberet testamentum per integrum et compleret.  In quo meas
    fidecommissarias etiam con-
stituo DONATAM dilectam uxorem meam, et FANTINAM et BELLELAM atque MORETAM
peramabiles filias meas, ut secundum quod hic ordinavero darique jussero,
ita ipse post obitum meum adimpleant.  Primiter enim omnium volo et ordi-
no dari rectam decimam et volo et ordino distribui libras denariorum
venetorum duo millia ultra decimam, de quibus dimitto soldos viginti
    denariorum
Venet. grossorum Monasterio Sancti Laurentii ubi meam eligo sepulturam. 
    Item di-
mitto libras trecentas den.  Venet. YSABETE QUIRINO cognate mee quas
mihi dare tenetur.  Item soldos quadraginta cuilibet