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APP. F.

I 34   MARCO POLO.

[last word rubric] ( marci pauli de venetijs de conditio and ending

(1, 2 r , line 3) : nostri ihesu christi cunctorum uisibilium et inuisi-

bilium creatoris, after which comes a list of the chapters, titles and

numbers (the latter rubricated) which concludes (I, 7 r°, line I) : D

(small blue initial with red ornament] e prouincia ruthenorum, xlix.-

(1, 7 r°, lines 2-5) : Capitulum primum primi libri. Qualiter et quare

dominus ( nicholaus pauli de venetijs, et dominus marchus [rubric] i T

[blue and red illuminated initial with minute spread eagle in centre]

Empore quo transierunt ad partes [last three words rubric] I balduinus

princeps oriental es. [last words rubric.]

Ends (14, I r°, lines 26, 27) : et diuersas prouincias deferuntur.

Explicit liber domini marci pauli de venetis de diuisionibus et

consuetúdinibus orientalium. 2. Odoric.

II., p. 534.

PARIS, see No. 18 Bibliothèque Nationale Département des

Manuscrits—Livre des Merveilles, Odoric de Pordenone, Mandeville,

Hayton, etc.—Reproduction des 265 miniatures du Manuscrit français

2810 de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris, Imprimerie Berthaud frères,

31, rue de Bellefond, 2 vol. in -8.

Marco Polo, Planches, I-84.

II., p. 539.

ANTWERP, Museum Plantin-Moretus. Exhibited in Room III.,

No. 61 : Extraits du Livre de Marco Polo de Venise et d'un livre sur

l'origine de quelques villes belges.

132 leaves ; 185 X 270 millimeters, XVth Century. Adorned

initials, alternately blue and red. Headings of chapters underlined in

red. Leather binding XVIth century, with small flowers de luce ;

copper clasps and ten nails. On the last leaf, in a running hand : Este

liber partinet Nicholao le buqueteur ; the name of Abraham Vander

Veken (Abrā Vander Veque), and the date 1600, 3/22, on the first

and on the last but one leaves.

Fol. 2 recto. Extrada de libro dni Pauli de Venecijs de diversis

provincijs et regnis maior[um] et de diversis moribus habitantiu[m] et de

multis mirabilibus in his locis et Asie. Eleven lines further : Quomodo

iverunt at Berchaman. Fol. 95 r . .De Sancto Thoma apto ubi jacet et

qno mortu(us) est. Fol. io6 r : Epilogatio de maiori Yndia. F. 117 v,

last chapter : De dissentione orta inter Alandim Tartaror[um] et Bcha

regem. Ends, f. 118 r : Hii tarnen reges proximi parentis erant et ambo

ex Chinchini imperialis progenie descendentes. Explicit.

The end of the MS. (f. 118-132) has for object the origin of

Belgian villages.

I owe this information to M. J. DENUCÉ,