The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,335 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2.

The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,335 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2.

  Derives from the Paris 5631 and 2810 and the Stockholm MS., 14th
  century.

G.  Raynaud, Romania, xi. pp. 429-430.

ITALY.

31
VENICE
St. Mark’s Library, Cl.  X. Codd.  Lat. 72
Latin.

  Pipino’s.

Formerly belonged to the Monastery of St. John’s in Viridario at Padua, to which it was presented by John Marchanova, Doctor of Arts and Medicine, 1467.  Paper, 4to. (It is mentioned by Marsden as at Padua, p. lv.)

Lazari.

32
VENICE
St. Mark’s Library, Cl.  X. Codd.  Lat. 128
Latin.

  Another of Pipino’s.  Paper, 4to, of 15th century.

Lazari.

33
VENICE
St. Mark’s Library, Cl.  VI.  Codd.  Ital., 56
Italian (Ven. dialect).

  A rude translation of Pipino’s version, written late in the 15th century

  Also contains a translation of the same Pipino’s Tract, De Locis
  Terrae Sanctae
.  Belonged to T.G.  Farsetti.  Paper, folio.

Lazari.

34
VENICE
St. Mark’s Library, Cl.  VI.  Codd.  Ital., 208
Italian (Ven. dialect).

  Corresponds to the Venetian edition of 1496, but even more inaccurate,
  with absurd interpolations.

  The volume contains also Odoric, A. Ca’ da Mosto, V. da Gama, Columbus,
  etc., being of the beginning of the 16th century.

  Paper, 4to.  Belonged to Morelli.

*_Lazari_.

35
VENICE
Museo Civico, Coll.  Cicogna, No. 2389, now 2408. 
Latin.

  +Paper, large 4to; belonged to Gian-Giuseppe Liruti, and after to E.A. 
  Cicogna; contains also Odoric, published by G. Venni in 1761, and other
  matter.

This is the MS. noticed at vol. i. Int., Ramusio’s Italian Version, p. 102, as containing several passages found in no other text except Ramusio’s Italian.  Written in 1401 by the Notary Philip, son of Pietro Muleto of Fodan (or Fogan?)[4] in Friuli, whilst studying Rhetoric at Padua.

[_H.  Cordier_, _Odoric_, pp. xci.-xcii.]

36
VENICE
Library of Count Dona delle Rose
Italian, with a Venetian tinge.

It begins:  “Quegli che desiderano d’entendere le maraviglose chose del mondo de l’Asia de Armenia persia e tartaria dell indie et diverse parti del mondo legano questo libro et intenderano quello chel nobelle citadino Veneciano Miss.  Marcho Polo,” etc., and end:  “Explicit liber Millionis civis Veneciarum.  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.

37
FERRARA
Public Library, No. 35n (336, N.B. 5)
Italian, with a Venetian tinge.

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