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Notes on Marco Polo : vol.2 | |
マルコ=ポーロについての覚書 : vol.2 |
774 279. MARSARCHIS
279. MARSARCHIS
marchachi V marsarchin TA3 marsarcho VL
marchis VB marsaquis FB masarchim TAl
marisarchis LT marsarchis F, P, P5 morsachis G
marsachis VA, Z; R
We ought probably to read « Marsarghis », Syriac Mar-Sargis, « Holy Sergius », which in
Mongolian has given Mar-Särgis and Mar-Sirgis, in Chinese transcriptions , j â Ma 6
Hsieh-li-chi-ssti, or Ma Hsieh-êrh[ QJ-chi-ssü, or Ma Hsi[ â ]-êrh-chi-ssû. The name is very common among the Nestorians; in the list of seventy odd names of priests engraved on the Nestorian
stele of A. D. 781, there are four different Mar-Sargis, if not five. si
It is PALLADIUS who discovered the principal Chinese texts relating to Mar-Sargis's tenure of
office at Chên-chiang (see « Cinghianfu ») and to the churches he built : six churches in Chên-chiang E,
or the immediate neighbourhood of Chên-chiang, and one in Hang-chou (see « Quinsai »). These texts have been translated by MOULE and L. GILES in TP, 1915, 627-686, and again in Mo, 145-160; cf. also T'u Chi, 117, 3 a-b. Mar-Sargis's family came from Samarkand. His grandfather and his father had served as Court physicians. He himself was called to the Court by Qubilai in 1268 to make a presentation of sherbet; later on, in 1273, he accompanied Sayyid Alai' to Yün-nan; in 1275, he served in Chê-chiang and Fu-chien; in 1277, or early in 1278, he was first appointed governor (daruyaci), and a little later reappointed but only vice-governor (vice-daruyaci) of Chênchiang (Mong. daruyaci, from daru-, « to press », just as its Turkish synonym basqaq is from bas-, « to press »; the two verbs mean also « to impress », « to print »). Mar-Sargis remained in office at Chên-chiang three years according to Polo, five years according to the inscription due to Liang Hsiang. From Polo's mention of « three years » for Mar-Sargis at Chên-chiang as well as in his own case at Yang-chou (see « Yangiu ») — the case of « Çulficar » at the asbestos mines of « Ghinghin Talas » might be added — YULE ( Y, II, 178) deduced that the normal term of office in Qubilai's time must have been of three years. As a matter of fact, such a rule, which was moreover in agreement with Chinese custom before and after the Mongol period, was expressly laid down in 1291, but not strictly enforced (cf. TP, 1915, 638). For Mar-Sargis, « three years » appears to be too short, as Mar-Sargis arrived at Chên-chiang in February 18, 1278, at the latest, and is said to have been
still in office when he founded a monastery there in 1281; but there are some difficulties, linked 1q
perhaps with Mar-Sargis's transfer from the position of a daruyaci to the lower one of a vice-daruyaci
(cf. TP, 1915, 638, 644-645, 648; Mo, 145, 156).
Whatever the case may be, Mar-Sargis seems to have remained the rest of his life in the region
of Chên-chiang, and to have exerted some influence there. He was still alive in 1295, as appears
from a new document which CH'EN Yüan discovered in the j $1 tt T'ung-chih t'iao-ko
section of the A t Ai iJ Ta-Yüan t'ung-chih of 1323, and to which MOULE (Mo, 233) merely
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