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bird. On another occasion they repeated this statement, alleging that this bird
was known in the Udoc (?) country near the coast. These priests were able to com-
municate directly with their informants, and certainly believed the story. Dr.
Hildebrand, also, a competent German naturalist, believed in it. But Sir John Kirk
himself says that "what the priests had to show was most undoubtedly the whalebone
of a comparatively small whale."

12.—A Spanish Edition of Marco Polo.

As we go to press we receive the newly published volume, El Libro de Marco Polo—
Aus dem vermichtnis des Dr. Hermann Knust nach der Madrider Handschrift
herausgegeben von Dr. R. Stuebe. Leipzig, Dr. Seele & Co., 1902, 8vo., pp. xxvi.-
114. It reproduces the old Spanish text of the manuscript Z-I-2 of the Escurial
Library from a copy made by Señor D. José Rodriguez for the Society of the Spanish
Bibliophiles, which, being unused, was sold by him to Dr. Hermann Knust, who
made a careful comparison of it with the original manuscript. This copy, found among
the papers of Dr. Knust after his death, is now edited by Dr. Stuebe. The original
14th century MS., written in a good hand on two columns, includes 312 leaves of
parchment, and contains several works; among them we note: 1°, a Collection
entitled Flor de las Ystorias de Oriente (fol. 1-104), made on the advice of Juan
Fernandez de Heredia, Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (1377),
of which Marco Polo (fol. 50-104) is a part; 2° and Secretum Secretorum (fol. 254 r.-
fol. 312 v.); this MS. is not mentioned in our List, App. F., II. p. 546, unless it be
our No. 60.
The manuscript includes 68 chapters, the first of which is devoted to the City of
Lob and Sha-chau, corresponding to our Bk. I., ch. 39 and 40 (our vol. i. pp. 196
seqq.); ch. 65 (p. 111) corresponds approximatively to our ch. 40, Bk. III. (vol. ii.
p. 451); chs. 66, 67, and the last, 68, would answer to our chs. 2, 3, and 4 of Bk. I.
(vol. i., pp. 45 seqq.). A concordance of this Spanish text, with Pauthier's, Yule's,
and the Geographic Texts, is carefully given at the beginning of each of the 68
chapters of the Book.
Of course this edition does not throw any new light on the text, and this volume
is but a matter of curiosity.

13.—Sir John Mandeville.

One of the last questions in which Sir Henry Yule* took an interest in, was the
problem of the authorship of the book of Travels which bears the name of Sir
John Mandeville, the worthy Knight, who, after being for a long time considered
as the "Father of English Prose" has become simply "the name claimed by the
compiler of a singular book of Travels, written in French, and published between
1357 and 1371."†
It was understood that "Johan Maundeuille, chiualer, ia soit ceo qe ico ne
soie dignes, neez et norriz Dengleterre de la ville Seint Alban," crossed the sea "Ian
millesme cccme vintisme et secund, le iour de Seint Michel,"‡ that he travelled since
across the whole of Asia during the 14th century, that he wrote the relation of his
travels as a rest after his fatiguing peregrinations, and that he died on the 17th of
November, 1372, at Liège, when he was buried in the Church of the Guillemins.
No work has enjoyed a greater popularity than Mandeville's; while we describe
but eighty-five manuscripts of Marco Polo's, and I gave a list of seventy-three manu-

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