The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

Marco Polo (translated by Sir Henry Yule, revised by Henri Cordier) · c. 1298-1299 primary

passage 490 of 704 · BOOK SECOND—(*Continued*). > Part of the Frontispiece is engraved in vol. i. p. *18* of the present work; the whole of the Frontispiece representing the Piazzetta reduced has been poorly reproduced in Mrs. Oliphant’s *The Makers of Venice*, (6/6)

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41 FLORENCE Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Nazionale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV. c. 73 Italian

Many liberties taken with the text, and much abridged and disarranged. Thus, after the Prologue it proceeds: “Al nome di Dio io Marcho Polo Veneziano racconterò tutte le maravigliose chose ch’io trovai e vidi, etc. etc.” It ends at the chapter on Russia with the following impertinence: “E se volete sapere più innanzi dimandatene un altro ch’io Marcho Polo non cercai più avanti.” The Khalif is called Largaliffe; Reobarles, Reubarbe, with a marginal note in an old hand, “Reubarbe città di Persia, donde viene il reubarbero herba medicinale.” Completed by Dolfo Spini, 16th July, 1425. Paper. Belonged to the Strozzi Collection.

42 FLORENCE Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Nazionale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV., c. 61 Italian

This corresponds to the Pucci MS. noted below (No. 47). It contains the colophon quoted at vol. i. _Int., Some Estimate of Polo and his

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The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 · Marco Polo (translated by Sir Henry Yule, revised by Henri Cordier) · 1298–1299