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THE GREATNESS AND POWER OF CUBLAI KAAN ∎MARCO POLO LT womens names; & they give them such names that they may induce women to worship FB FB them. Now let us leave speaking to you of this, and we shall tell you of the very great
deeds and of the wonders of the very great lord of the lords of all the Tartars of FB LT the world, that is the very noble and powerful great Kaan who is called Cublai. The first book of Master Marc Pol concerning the wonders of the eastern regions ends, and the second book on the same subject begins.
ERE HE TELLS OF ALL THE DEEDS OF THE GREAT KAAN WHO NOW REIGNS WHO IS CALLED CUBLAI KAAN, AND TELLS HOW HE HOLDS COURT AND HOW HE MAINTAINS HIS PEOPLE WITH GREAT JUSTICE, ANI) AGAIN HE
VA SPEAKS OF HIS AFFAIRS. NOW I WISH to begin to tell you in this part of our book LT all the very great doings and all the very great marvels of the very great lord of the Tartars, namely the great Kaan who now reigns, who is called Cublai Kaan, VA FB VA which Kaan means to say in our language' the great lord of lords, emperor-, and this VA lord who now reigns indeed he really has this name of lord of lords by right because everyone knows truly that this great Kaan is the most powerful [34a1 man in people and in lands and in treasure that ever was in the world or that now is FB R from the time of Adam our first father till this moment; and under him all the peoples are set with such obedience as has never been done under any other former king. And this I shall R LT P show you quite clearly in the course of • this our second book, that it is a true thing FB VA which I have told you, so that each will be sure that he is as we say without contra-FB P diction the greatest lord that ever was born in the world or that now is; and in the following chapters I shall show you reason how.
77 • T T ERE HE TELLS OF THE GREAT BATTLE WHICH WAS BETWEEN THE GREAT
KAAN AND THE KING NAIAN HIS UNCLE. NOW you may know quite
FA VA 1 1 truly that it is true that this •king who is named Cublai, he is of the direct L FA descent from the imperial line of Cinghis Kaan the first lord of all the Tartars of the world; for the lord of all the Tartars is bound to be directly of that lineage. And this FB Cublai Kaan is the sixth great Kaan, as I have told you before in this book; this means to TA say that he is the sixth great lord of all the Tartars who have been until now. And you P may know that he had the rule in the 1256 year that was since Jesus Christ was born,
it. .. in the world in their monasteries.") could easily have dropped out, or could easily have become e ("&") as in V; and that "their monasteries are all women", though accepted by B., seems to be improbable. The most plausible reading is perhaps that of VB: ano lellor chiexe
ouer tenpli separati daialtri et ano issuo idolli tuti de nomi femenil VA: tute lidolle ... anno nomi
de femene.
1 FB: en francoiz L: in latino
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