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APPENDICES.

LIST OF MSS. OF MARCO POLO'S BOOK SO FAR

AS THEY ARE KNOWN.'

II., p. 533.

GLASGOW, Hunterian Museum.2 No. 84, vellum, 4to, Cent. XV. :

I. Guido de Colonna's Destruction of Troy. 2. Julius Valerius'

History of Alexander the Great. 3. Archbishop Turpin's Itinerary.

4. Marco Polo.

Begins (25, 5 [f. 191 (197) r°, lines I-3) : ¶ [blue] Incipit liber

domini marci Pauli de Venecijs de condicionibus et consuetudinibus

orientalium regionum [rubric] L [small illuminated initial] Ibrum

prudentis honorabilis ac fidelissimi domini marci.

Ends (33, 3 [f. 253 (259) r°, lines 8-12) : girfalci et herodij qui

inde postmodum ad diuersas prouincias I et regiones deferuntur et

cetera.   [blue] Explicit liber domini marci Pauli I de Venecijs de

diuisionibus et consue- ( tudinibus orientalium regionum [Pipino's

Version].

5.  Frater Odoricus Forojuliensis.

6.  Iohannis Mandeville, Be Mirabilibus.

II., p. 533.

GLASGOW, Hunterian Museum, Cent. XIV.3 No. 458, vellum, 4to.

1. Marci Pavli Veneti, De Orientalibvs Regionibvs.

Begins after a preface by " Frater Franciscus Pipinus de Bononia "

beginning (r, z ro, lines 1-4) : Incipit liber primus domini marci

pauli de venecijs de orien [rubric] I L [gilt historiated initial with

gestures forming a floreated border.] Ibrum prudentis talibus regionibus.

Prolo [last three words rubric] ( honorabilis ac fidelissimi domini gus.

1 See The Book of Ser Marco Polo, Vol. II., pp. 530 seq.

2 Pages 89, 90 of !4 Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow planned and begun by the late John Young . . . continued and completed under the direction of the Young Memorial Committee by P. Henderson Aitken. . . . Glasgow, James Maclehose and Sons, 1908, gr. in —4.

3 Cf. Young's Catalogue, p. 378.

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