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MARCO POLO.

APP. F.

homes a Caval e ape-lense casitans, qui vol dir leyals cavalers a son

seyor a quests. XIJ'I'. homes an. IIIJ. capitans . . ."

The words underlined are included almost verbatim in the Catalan

Map. Cf. H. CORDIER, L' Extrême Orient dans l'Atlas Catalan, p. 14.

The manuscript begins, fol. i recto : " Aci comensa lo libre de les

provincies et de les encontrades que sont sotz la seyoria del gran

Emperador del Catay I lo quai ha la seyoria del Gamballech et seyor

de los Tartres ayi corn ho reconta o messer March Pollo ciutada

noble de Venecia. Et primerament diun ay de la provincia de Tangut

hon el stech XXVI. anys per saber la veritat de les coses daval

sorites."

Cf. Un manoscritto inedito dei viaggi di Marco Polo. Di Giovanni

Vacca (Riv. Geog. Ital., XIV., 1907, pp. 107-108).

II., p. 546.

ESCURIAL, Latin, Pipino's (?). See No. 6o. This is probably the

MS. mentioned by the second Viscount of Santarem, p. 574, in his

volume, Ineditos (Miscellanea), Lisboa, 1914, large 8vo : " Un Ms. de

Marc Polo du XVe. siècle qui est mal indiqué par le titre suivant :

Consuetudines et condiciones orientalium regionum descrij5to per mestrum

Paulum de t enetiis scri~to chat tes vix saeculo XV. incipience, Q –ij— i3."

My late friend, Prof. H. Derenbourg, gives me a few notes regard-

ing this Latin MS., paper, small 4to, ff. 1-95 v ; contains 187 chapters

with a special title in red ink. Begins : Librum j5rudentis honorabilis

ac fedelissimi viri Domini Marci Pauli De Venetiis de conditionibus

orientalium ab me vulgari edictum et scrip/um.

II., p. 548.

NUREMBERG. Latin MS. containing Marco Polo, St. Brandan,

Mandeville, Odoric, Schildtberger; bad handwriting. See French

edition of Odoric, p. LXXXII.

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