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Often appears with: translation methodology · translation and the transmission of texts · pauthier’s edition · history and the writing of history · eclectic text formation

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“For ye shall find therein all kinds of wonderful things, and the divers histories of the Great Hermenia, and of Persia, and of the Land of the Tartars, and of India, and of many another country” Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 · observation

The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 primary

Marco Polo · c. 1298 (Book of Marco Polo)
C.S.I., Major-General KEYES, C.B., Dr. GEORGE BIRDWOOD, Mr. BURGESS, of

The editor gives an explanation of his translation method, preferring French manuscript sources and describing an “eclectic” English text formed by comparing Pauthier with a Geographic Text.

THE PROLOGUE. Great Princes, Emperors, and Kings, Dukes and Marquises, Counts, Knights, and Burgesses! and People of all degrees who desire to get knowledge of the various races of mankind and of the diversities of the sundry regions of the World, take this Book and cause it to be read to you. For ye shall find therein all kinds of wonderful things, and the divers histories of the Great Hermenia, and of Persia, and…