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Citation Information
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MARCO POLO BOOK I.
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with a council of twenty-four merchants, and in 1320 there is evidence of a Venetian
settlement there. (Elie de la Prim. 161 ; Heyd, II. 82.) ,
Rasbiduddin says of Tabriz that there were gathered there under the eyes of the Padishah of Islam " philosophers, astronomers, scholars, historians, of all religions, of all sects ; people of Cathay, of Máchín, of India, of Kashmir, of Tibet, of the Uighúr and other Turkish nations, Arabs and Franks." Ibn Batuta : " I traversed the bazaar of the jewellers, and my eyes were dazzled by the varieties of precious stones which I beheld. Handsome slaves, superbly dressed, and girdled with silk , offered their gems for sale to the Tartar ladies, who bought great numbers. [Odoric (ed. Cordier) speaks also of the great trade of Tabriz.] Tabriz maintained a large population and prosperity down to the 17th century, as may be seen in Chardin. It is now greatly fallen, though still a place of importance." (Quat. Rash. p. 39 ; I. B. II. 13o.)
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NOTE 4. —In Pauthier's text this is Touzi, a mere clerical error, I doubt not for Torizi, in accordance with the G. Text (" le peuple de la cité que surat apelés Taurin"), with the Latin, and with Ramusio. All that he means to say is that the people are called Tabrízís. Not recondite information, but 'tis his way. Just so he tells us in ch. iii. that the people of Hermenia are called Hermins, and elsewhere that the people of Tebet are called Tebet. So I-ayton thinks it not inappropriate to say that the people of Catay are called Cataini, that the people of Corasmia are called Corasmins, and that the people of the cities of Persia are called Persians.
NOTE 5.—Hamd Allah Mastaufi, the Geographer, not long after Polo's time, gives an account of Tabriz, quoted in Barbier de Meynard's Dict. de la Perse, p. 132. This also notices the extensive gardens round the city, the great abundance and cheapness of fruits, the vanity, insolence, and faithlessness of the Tabrízís, etc. (p. 132 segq. ). Our cut shows a relic of the Mongol Dynasty at Tabriz.
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