HKB
Paper, folio, 1392, 100 ff. of which the first 40 contain Polo. Not well written. Ex. Bibl. Gaddianâ.
43 FLORENCE Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Nazionale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV., c. 136 Italian
Both beginning and end are missing. Slightly different from the Crusca. 14th century.
44 FLORENCE Riccardian Library Italian
Ends with chapter on Russia. Followed by an extract of Mandevile and a valuable coll. of geographical documents of 15th century and beginning of 16th. Paper 4to, 16th century.
45 FLORENCE Riccardian Library Latin
Pipino’s; but reaching only to Bk. III. ch. 31. Paper, 14th century.
46 FLORENCE Riccardian Library Italian (Ven. dialect), No. 1924
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.
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.”
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’ Berettari 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 comīcio ellibro di Missere Mācho Polo da Vinegia de le cose māuiglose che trovo p̄ 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.
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
Pipino’s. Very neat and clean; apparently of 14th cent. Parchment.
54 ROME Vatican Library, No. 5260 Latin
Pipino’s. Very clearly and regularly written. Apparently 15th cent.
55 ROME Barberini Library, XXXIV. 4 Latin
A MS. volume, containing Ricold of Monte Croce; Tractatus divisionis et ambitûs Orbis Terrarum, etc.; Liber de divisione Orbis Terrarum; Libellus de Mirabilibus Urbis Romae; and “Incipit de Morum et Gentium Varietatibus editus a Marcho Polo Veneto.” It is very cramply written, much compressed, and has no division into books or chapters. Ends with “Roscia, provincia maxima.” “Explicit libellus editus a Dno. Marcho Polo de Venetiis de diversis provinciis et gentibus mundi, et earum ritibus et moribus diversis et artibus.” Parchment, large thin 4to, 14th cent.
56 ROME Barberini Library, LVIII. 40 Italian (Venetian dial.)