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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 |
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Citation Information
So INTRODUCTION
mensis aprilis. Inuentarium rerum qui sunt in camera rubea domi
habitationis clarissimi domini MARINI FALETRO de confinio SS. Apostolorum, scriptum per me Johannem, presbiterura, dicte ecclesie.
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Item alia capsaleta cum ogiis auri et argenti, inter quos unum anulum con inscriptione que dicit : Ciuble Can Marco Polo, et unum torques cum multis animalibus Tartarorum sculptis, que res donum dedit predictus MARCUS cuidam Faletrorum.
Item 2 capsalete de conio albo cum varies rebus auri et argenti, quas habuit praedictus MARCUS a Barbarorum rege.
Item i ensem mirabilem, qui habet 3 enses simul, quern habuit in suis itineribus praedictus MARCUS.
Item I tenturam de pannis indicis, quam habuit praedictus MARCUS. Item de itineribus MARCI praedicti liber in conio albo cum multis figuris. Itenz aliud volumen quod vocatur de locis m rabzlzbus Tartarorum, scrijtunz manu .Araedicti MARCI.
I I. There is kept at the Louvre, in the very valuable
collection of China Ware given by M. Ernest Grandidier, a white
porcelain incense-burner said to corne from Marco Polo. This
incense-burner, which belonged to Baron Davillier, who received
it, as a present, from one of the keepers of the Treasury of
St. Mark's at Venice, is an octagonal tíng from the Fo-kien
province, and of the time of the Sung Dynasty. By the kind
permission of M. P. Grandidier, we reproduce it from Pl. II.
6, of the Céramique chinoise, Paris, 1894, published by this
learned amateur. H. C.]
IX. MARCO POLO'S BOOR; AND THE LANGUAGE IN WHICH IT WAS FIRST WRITTEN.
50. The Book itself consists essentially of Two Parts.
First, of a Prologue, as it is termed, the only part which is
actual personal narrative, and which relates, in a very
interesting but far too brief manner, the circumstances
which led the two elder Polos to the Kaan's Court,
and those of their second journey with Mark, and of their return
to Persia through the Indian Seas. Secondly, of a long series of
chapters of very unequal length, descriptive of notable sights and
products, of curious manners and remarkable events, relating to
the different nations and states of Asia, but, above all, to the
General statement of what the Book con-
tains.
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