the Public the few Informations he had from others, mixed with the
    many Fictions of his own.  He set out again for the East in 1331; but
    warned, it seems, by an Apparition a few Miles from Padua, he
    returned thither, and died.”  And a final blow in the index:  “Oderic,
    Friar, Travels of, iv. 620 a. A great liar!!”

[34] E.B.  Nicholson.—­Letters to the Academy, 11th November, 1876;
    12th February, 1881.  E.B.N. and Henry Yule, MANDEVILLE, in
    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., 1883, pp. 472-475.

[35] Die ungedruckten Lateinischen Versionen Mandeville’s. (Beilage zum
    Programm des Gymnasiums zu Crefeld.) 1886.

[36] Untersuchungen ueber Johan von Mandeville und die Quellen seiner
    Reisebeschreibung.  Von Albert Bovenschen. (Zeitschrift d.  Ges. fuer
    Erdkunde zu Berlin, XXIII.  Bd., 3 u. 4 Hft.  No. 135, 136, pp.
    177-306.)

[37] (1) Itinerarivm // per nonnv. las // Galliae Belgicae partes,
    // Abrahami Ortelii et // Ioannis Viviani. // Ad Gerardvm Mercatorem,
    // Cosmographvm. // Antverpiae, // Ex officina Christophori Plantini.
    // clo. lo. lxxxiv. // small 8vo, pp. 15-16.

    (2) Read 1372.

(3) Purchas, His Pilgrimes, 3rd Pt., Lond., 1625, reproduces it on p. 128:  “Hic jacet vir nobilis, D. Ioannes de Mandeville, aliter dictus ad Barbam, Miles, Dominus de Campdi, natus de Anglia, Medicinae Professor, deuotissimus, orator, & bonorum largissimus pauperibus erogator qui toto quasi orbe lustrato, Leodij diem vitae suae clausit extremum.  Anno Dom. 1371, Mensis Nouembris, die 17.”

[38] Bibliotheque nationale:—­Catalogue des manuscrits des fonds Libri
    et Barrois.  Paris, 1888. 8vo. cf. pp. 251-253.

INDEX

Aas, Asu, see Alans. 
Abacan, a Tartar general. 
Abah, see Avah. 
Abaji, Kublai’s son. 
Abaka (Abaga), Khan of Persia. 
Abano, Pietro of, his notice of Polo. 
Abash (Habsh), see Abyssinia. 
Abba Gregory. 
Abbas, Shah. 
Abbott, Consul Keith E.. 
Abdul Kuri islands.
——­ Mejid. 
Abeskun (Baxon), on the Caspian. 
Abher. 
Abkashian forests, boxwood of the.
Abnus, ebony. 
Abraha, ruler of Yemen. 
Abraiaman, see Brahmans. 
Abubakr, Atabeg of Fars.
——­ Ibrahim, and Mahomed, engineers employed by Kublai. 
Abu’l Abbas Ahmed VII., Khalif of Baghdad.
——­ Fazl
Abulfeda, his geography;
  at the siege of Acre. 
Abulfiez Khan, king of Bokhara. 
Abu Nasr Mohammed IX., Khalif of Baghdad.
——­ Said. 
Abyssinia (Abash),
  its king’s punishment of Soldan of Aden;
  dominion on the coast, mediaeval history and chronology;
  table of kings;
  wars with Mahomedan states. 
Acbalec Manzi, “White City of the Manzi frontier”.