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Notes on Marco Polo : vol.2 |
292. MUTIFILI 787
HUNG Chün (ch. 24) and T'u Chi (ch. 146) have each a whole chapter on the Ismaiiians (Mula-i), but these are, as a rule, second-hand rehearsals of Western sources, sometimes faulty, with a few useful hints.
To the biography given in Y, I, 148, and Y1, II, 258, may be added, on Alamüt, the more recent accounts of IVANOW, L. LOCKHART and Fr. STARK in Geogr. Journal, Jan. 1931, 38-60, and of EDMUNDS, ibid., June 1931, 555-558.
291. MUS
masa V mus L, Z; R
This is Mush (Mfg) in Armenia; the name is written « Mus » in R, Z, and L, and altered to « Masa » in V; although we would have preferred a form from F or FA, it seems that Polo really used the word « Mus » and not « Musce » or the like. Polo couples « Mus » with « Meridin » as the name of one province. This, as YULE has observed (Y, i, 62), is rather surprising, and there is no confirmation of such use of the two names. On Mùg, cf. LS, 116.
292. MUTIFILI
anruessi, morfili VA muzuliro V
kurfali G motyfy, mutfily,
molfili LT FB
molfuli LT moufy FAt
monsul VB, Rr muisuli VL
montifi F mulfili Pt
mosul Fr, t multifili TAIT
motifi L multifilii TA3
motifili, murfoli (cor.),
multifily TA1, TA3
mutifyli murfili R
murphili R, Rr mutfili F, FA, L, P mutfyly FBt muthphyli Z mutifili F, FA mutisili Pr
This form, supported by some of the Mss., and indirectly by «Butifiiis» of the Catalan and Leardo maps (cf. HALLBERG, 364-365), seems to me to be better than the « Mutfiii » of YULE and BENEDETTO. The name, as YULE has shown (Y, II, 362; Y', IH, 70), is an Arabic pronunciation of Motupalli, Motupallé, Mutapali, of modern authors and maps; it lies about 110 kilometres southwest of Masulipatam (there was no reason, in B', 445, still to quote PAUTHIER'S identification of « Mutifili » with this last city). Apart from Polo, I find the name in the Multi; of Sidi `Ali Celebi (1554), who probably took it from Ibn Mi)id or from Sulaymân al-Mahri, both of the first half of the 16th cent.; Sidi `Ali writes ,51.:. which FERRAND transcribes Mutibali (Fe, 498) and Motubali
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