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0663 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 / Page 663 (Color Image)

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scripts of Friar Odoric's relation,* it is by hundreds that Mandeville's manuscripts
can be reckoned. As to the printed editions, they are, so to speak, numberless;
Mr. Carl Schönborn† gave in 1840, an incomplete bibliography; Tobler in his
Bibliographia geographica Palestinae (1867),‡ and Röhricht§ after him compiled a
better bibliography, to which may be added my own lists in the Bibliotheca Sinica ‖
and in the T'oung-Pao.¶
Campbell, Ann. de la Typog. néerlandaise, 1874, p. 338, mentions a Dutch
edition: Reysen int heilige lant, s.l.n.d., folio, of which but two copies are known,
and which must be dated as far back as 1470 [see p. 600]. I believed hitherto (I am
not yet sure that Campbell is right as to his date) that the first printed edition was
German, s.l.n.d., very likely printed at Basel, about 1475, discovered by Tross, the
Paris Bookseller.** The next editions are the French of the 4th April, 1480,†† and
8th February of the same year,‡‡ Easter being the 2nd of April, then the Latin,§§