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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49 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.
50
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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51
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.
52
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.