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0594 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
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doi: 10.20676/00000269
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Appendix F.—List of MSS. of Marco Polo's Book so far as they are known.—(continued).

| No. | Localities. | Indications. | Language. | Description of MSS. | Authorities. |
|-----|-------------|--------------|-----------|---------------------|--------------|
| 8 | Oxford | Bodleian, No. 264 | Great French | Britain and Ireland—(continued). This is bound up with the celebrated Alexander MS. It is a beautiful volume; the miniatures are exquisite, &c.; the Frontispiece, a large piece of about 9¾ in. × 9 in., forming a sort of condensed view of the Field of Travel; a large part of the Book of Travel; a large part on [The Piazzetta] in vol. i., p. 18, Introduction, is an extract. Another fine work (i. 220) represents the three Polos presenting the Pope's Letter to the Kaan. The embroidered initial in which is legible "Johannes me fecit." This Mr. Coxe attributes to John of Cologne, a known artist of the 14th century. He considers the MS. to be of about 1350. The illuminations as finished in [1344] by Jehan de Grise. [See supra, p. 528, note.] A comparison of a good many readings, as well as of the point where the MS. ends, and as the words "Explicit le Livre nommi du Grant Caun de la Grannt Cité de Cambaluc, Dieux ayde Amen," indicate that this MS. is of the same type as Pauthier [N. G.] 20 in the class B. The name given in the colophon as above has | [P. Meyer, Romania, XL, 1882, pp. 299-301. E. W. B. Nicholson; Personal.—H. C.] |