The Travels of Marco Polo, by Marco Polo

We attempt a list of all the editions of Polo; a task for which Sir Henry Yule had no advantages, and which will be found well done for the time in Lazari’s Appendix, based on Marsden. It may be also useful to mention the chief Editions, with their dates.

• 1477. The first Printed Edition is in German. We give a reduced Facsimile of its Frontispiece.

• 1481. A reproduction of the preceding at Augsburg, in the same volume with the History of Duke Leopold and his Son William of Austria.

• About 1490. Pipino’s Latin; the only printed edition of that version. Without place, date, or printer’s name.

• 1496. Edition in Venetian Dialect, printed by J.H. da Sessa.

• 1500. The preceding reproduced at Brescia (often afterwards in Italy).

• 1502. Portuguese version from Pipino, along with the Travels of Nicolo Conti. Printed at Lisbon by Valentym Fernandez Alemaão (see vol. ii. of this work). Stated to have been translated from the MS. presented by Venice to Prince Pedro (vol. i.)

• 1503. Spanish version by Rodrigo de Santaella. Sevilla.

• 1529. Ditto. Reprinted at Logroño.

• 1532. Novus Orbis–Basileae. (See vol. i.)

• 1556. French version from the Novus Orbis.

• 1559. Ramusio’s 2nd volume, containing his version of Polo, of which we have spoken amply.

• 1579. First English Version, made by John Frampton, according to Marsden,

  from the Spanish version of Seville or Logroño.

• 1625. Purchas’s Pilgrims, vol. iii. contains a very loose translation from Ramusio.

• 1664. Dutch Version, from the Novus Orbis. Amsterdam.

• 1671. Andreas Müller of Greiffenhagen reprints the Latin of the Novus Orbis, with a collation of readings from the Pipino MS. at Berlin; and with it the book of Hayton, and a disquisition De Chataiâ. The Editor appears to have been an enthusiast in his subject, but he selected his text very injudiciously. (See vol. i.)

• 1735. Bergeron’s interesting collection of Mediaeval Travels in Asia, published in French at the Hague. The Polo is a translation from Müller, and hence is (as we have already indicated) at 6th hand.

• 1747. In Astley’s Collection, IV. 580 seqq., there is an abstract of Polo’s book, with brief notes, which are extremely acute, though written in a vulgar tone, too characteristic of the time.

• 1818. Marsden’s famous English Edition.

• 1824. The Publication of the most valuable MS. and most genuine form of the text, by the Soc. de Géographie of Paris. (See vol. i.) It also contains the Latin Text (No. 24 in our list of MSS. App. F.).

• 1827. Baldelli–Boni published the Crusca MS. (No. 40), and republished the Ramusian Version, with numerous notes, and interesting dissertations. The 2 volumes are cumbered with 2 volumes more containing, as a Preliminary, a History of the Mutual Relations of Europe and Asia, which probably no man ever read. Florence.

• 1844. Hugh Murray’s Edition. It is, like the present one, eclectic as regards the text, but the Editor has taken large liberties with the arrangement of the Book.

• 1845. Bürck’s German Version, Leipzig. It is translated from Ramusio, with copious notes, chiefly derived from Marsden and Ritter. There are some notes at the end added by the late Karl Friedrich Neumann, but as a whole these are disappointing.

• 1847. Lazari’s Italian edition was prepared at the expense of the late Senator T. Pasini, in commemoration of the meeting of the Italian Scientific Congress at Venice in that year, to the members of which it was presented. It is a creditable work, but too hastily got up.

• 1854. Mr. T. Wright prepared an edition for Bohn’s Antiq. Library. The notes are in the main (and professedly) abridged from Marsden’s, whose text is generally followed, but with the addition of the historical chapters, and a few other modifications from the Geographic Text.

• 1854–57. Voyageurs Anciens et Modernes, &c. Par M. Ed. Charion.

  Paris. An interesting and creditable popular work. Vol. ii. contains Marco Polo, with many illustrations, including copies from miniatures in the Livre des Merveilles. (See list in App. F. p. 528.)

• 1863. Signor Adolfo Bartoli reprinted the Crusca MS. from the original, making a careful comparison with the Geographic Text. He has prefixed a valuable and accurate Essay on Marco Polo and the Literary History of his Book, by which I have profited.

• 1865. M. Pauthier’s learned edition.

• 1871. First edition of the present work.

• 1873. First publication of Marco Polo in Russian.

• 1875. Second edition of this work.

• 1882. Facsimile of the French Stockholm MS. by Baron A.E. Nordenskiöld.

ii.— Bibliography of Printed Editions.^*

^* [Sir Henry Yule expressed his regret to me that he had not the facility at Palermo to undertake this Bibliography which I consider as a legacy from the first and illustrious editor of this book.— H.C.]

A.— German editions.

• 1.— 1. Nuremberg . . . 1477.

  The first translation of Marco Polo’s Book was printed in German, at Nuremberg, in 1477.

  Collation: 58 ff. folio without pagination and without signatures.

  Verso f. 1: Frontispiece: Portrait of Marco Polo with this inscription round the border: [Top] Das ist der edel Ritter. Marcho polo von [right] Venedig der grost landtfarer der vns beschreibt die grossen wunder der welt [Foot] die er selber gesehenn hat. Von dem auffgang [left] pis zu dem nydergãg der sunne. der gleyche vor nicht meer gehort seyn. [See p. 555.]

  Recto f. 2, begins:

  Hie hebt sich an das puch dés edelñ Ritters vñ landtfarers || Marcho polo. In dem er schreibt die grossen wunderlichen || ding dieser welt. Sunderlichen von den grossen kunigen vnd || keysern die da herschen in den selbigen landen | vnd von irem || volck vnd seiner gewonheit da selbs.

  Verso f. 58: Hie endet sich das puch des edelñ Ritters und lañdtfarerz || Marcho polo | das do sagt võ mangerley wunder der landt || vñ lewt | vñ wie er die selbigen gesehen vñ durch faren hat || von de auffgang pisz zu dem nydergang der sune Seliglich.

  Disz hat gedruckt Fricz Creïszner zu Nurmberg Nach cristi || gepurdt Tausent vierhundert vñ im siben vñ sibenczigte iar.

  
  Frontispiece of the first German Edition.

  The copy which I have examined is in the Grenville Library, No. 6787. (Vide Bib. Grenvilliana, Part II. p. 305.) When Marsden edited his Marco Polo, Grenville did not possess this edition. The only known copy was in the Vienna Imperial Library, but was without the portrait. Grenville had made a transcript spoken of by Marsden, pp. lxx.-lxxi., which we describe infra. “When Mr. Marsden,” says Grenville in a MS. note at the beginning of this fine volume, “published his translation of this work, the only known copy of this first German Edition was in the Imperial Library at Vienna, and I had a literal transcript made from it: Since that time a second copy was found and sold by Payne and Foss to Lord Spencer: and now I have purchased from Leipsick a third [the present] beautiful copy. I know of no fourth copy. The copy at Vienna wants the portrait.”

  Vide Bib. Spenceriana, vol. vi. p. 176.

  Other copies are to be found at the Imperial Library, Vienna, the Royal Library, Berlin, the Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg; a sixth copy was in the Crawford Collection (London, June, 1887, 1359) with the portrait, and was purchased by B. Quaritch. [See H. Cordier, Cent. of Marco Polo, p. 41.]

  — The copy we just spoke of has No. LII. in the Grenville collection, British Museum; it is a folio of 114 pages numbered with a pencil; bound with the arms of the Rt. Honble. Thos. Grenville. Page 114, the exactness of this copy is thus certified: “Apographum collatum cum prototypo, quod in Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensi adservatur. Illo quidem, qui descripsit, recitante ex prototypo, me vero hoc apographum inspectante. Respondet pagina paginae, versui versus & syllaba syllabae. Vindobonae die 29. Augusti 1817. B. Kopitar, Biblioth. Palatinae Vindobon. scriptor.”

  With this manuscript is bound a letter addressed to Mr. Grenville by the Chevalier Scotti, who had the copy made; it is dated “Vienne 20 nmbre 1817,” and ends with this post-scriptum: “N.B. Comme cette Edition fort peu connue du 477. est une édition non seulement précieuse, mais à la vérité fort rare aussi, elle avoit été prise par les Francois et portée à Paris la dernière fois qu’ils ont été à Vienne. Elle y a été rendue avec tout le reste qu’on avoit emporté à la suite des heureux succès des Coilisés, auxquels L’immortel Wellington a tant contribué en y mettant la dernière couronne dont les lauriers resteront à jamais inflétrissables.”

• 2.— 2. Augsburg . . . 1481.

  — The second German edition of Marco Polo has been reprinted at Augsburg in 1481; it is as scarce as the first edition; I have examined the copy in the Imperial Library at St. Petersburg.

  Collation: 60 ff. folio, without pagination nor signatures.

  Recto f. 1: End of the story of William of Austria, after which is printed Marco Polo.

  Verso f. 1: Frontispiece: Portrait of Marco Polo coloured with this inscription round the border: [Top] Das ist der edel ritter Marcho polo von Venedig. [right] der grõst landfarer der vas beschreibt die grossen wunder der welt die er selber gese [foot] he:n hat. Von dem auffgang biss zu dem nidergang der [left] sunnen | der geleich vor nit meer gehõrt seind.

  Recto f. 2, begins:

  Hie hept sich an das buch des edle ritters vñ landtfarers Marcho polo, in dem er schreibt die grossen wunderlichen ding diser welt. sunderlichen võ den grossen künigen vnd keisern | die da herschen in den selbigen landen vnd von jrem volck vnnd seiner gewonheÿt da selbs.

  Recto f. 60: Hie enndet sich herczog Wilhalm von österreich vñ das buch des edeln ritters vñ landtfarers Marcho polo | das da sagt von mengerleÿ wunder der land vnd leüt. vnd wie er die selbige gesehen vñ durch faren hat von dem auffgang biss zu dem nÿdergang d’sunnen Seligklich. Diss hat gedruckt Anthonius Sorg zu Augspurg Nach xpi gepurt tausent vier hundert vnd jm lxxxj. jare.

  No. fig. in the text.

• 3.— 3. Die New Welt der landschaften vnnd Insulen . . . gedruckt zu Strassburg durch Georgen Vlricher . . . An. M.D.XXXIIII, folio.

  Ff. 103–133; Marr Paulen des Venedigers Erst Buch | von den Morgenlandern.— Ff. 134–152: Haithon des Armeniers Premonstratensis ordens | von den Tartern.

  Translated from the Novus Orbis Regionvm.— See 11–12.

• 4.— 4.* M. Polus. Reise in die Tartarey und zum Grossen Chan von Chatai, uebersetzt. v. H. Megisser. Altenburg, 1609, 8vo.

  H. Ternaux–Compans, Bibliothèque asiatique et africaine, No. 1031.—[Notwithstanding all my researches, I could not find this edition in any private or public library in Germany.— H.C.]

• 5.— 5. Chorographia Tartariae: || Oder || Warhafftige Beschreibung der || vberaus wunderbahrlichen Reise | || welche der Edle vnd weit erfahrne Venedigi —|| sche GENTILHUOMO MARCUS POLUS, mit dem || zunahmen MILLION, noch vor vierthalb hundert Jah=||ren | in die Oriental vnd Morgenlãnder | Sonderlich aber in || die Tartarey | zu dem grossen Can von Cathai | zu || Land vnd Wasser Persönlich verrichtet: || Darinnen ausführlich vnd vmbständ=||lich erzehlet werden | viel zuvor vnbekandte Landschaff=||ten | Königreich vnd Städt | sampt dero Sitten vnd || Gebräuchen | vnd andern seltzamen Sachen: || Die Er | als der erste Erfinder der newen Welt | gegen || Orient | oder den Ost Indien | gesehen vnd erfahren. || In drey vnterschiedliche Bücher abge=||[t]heilet: sampt einem Discurs Herrn Johan Bapti=||stae Rhamnusij | der Herrschafft zu Vene=||dig geheimen Secretarij | von dem || Leben des Autoris. || Alles aus dem Original | so in Italianischer || Sprach beschrieben | treulich vnd mit fleis ver=|| teutschet | auch mit Kupfferstücken || geziehret | durch || HIERONYMUM MEGISERUM.—|| Anno M. DC. XI. || Leipzig | in vorlegung Henning Grossen des Jüngern. Small 8vo. pp. 354 (last page numbered by mistake 351) + 36 prel. ff. for the tit., preface, etc., and 7 ff. at the end for the table.

  Plates.— See p. 350: Alphabetum Tartaricúm, et Oratio Dominica Tartaricé.

• 6.— 6. Die Reisen des Marco Polo, oder Marcus Paulus, eines Venetianers, in die Tartarey, im Jahre 1272. (Allgemeine Historie der Reisen, Leipzig, 1750, VII, pp. 423 et seq.)

• 7.— 7. Marco Paolo’s || Reise in den Orient | || während der Jahre 1272 bis 1295. ||— Nach den || vorzüglichsten Original=Ausgaben verdeutscht, || und || mit einem Kommentar begleitet|| von || Felix Peregrin. ||— Ronneburg und Leipzig, || bei August Schumann, 1802, 8vo., pp. vi-248.

  P. 248: Eisenberg, gedruckt bei Johann Wilhelm Schöne.

• 8.— 8. Die Reisen des Venezianers Marco Polo im dreizehnten Jahrhundert.— Zum ersten Male vollständig nach den besten Ausgaben Deutsch mit einem Kommentar von August Bürck.-Nebst Zusätzen und Verbesserungen von Karl Friedrich Neumann. Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1845, 8vo, pp. xvi-631.

  — Di un frammento inedito di Marco Foscarini intorno ai Viaggiatori Veneziani e di una nuova traduzione in tedesco dei Viaggi di Marco Polo. [By Tommaso Gar] (Archivio Storico Italiano, Appendice, T. IV, Firenze, 1847, pp. 89 et seq.)

• 9.— 9. Die Reisen des Venezianers Marco Polo im dreizehnten Jahrhundert.— Zum ersten Male vollständig nach den besten Ausgaben Deutsch mit einem Kommentar von August Bürck. Nebst Zusätzen und Verbesserungen von Karl Friedrich Neumann. Zweite unveränderte Ausgabe.— Leipzig, Druck und Verlag von B.G. Teubner, 1855, 8vo, pp. xvi-631.

  B.— Latin Editions.

• 10.— 1. Commence; In nomine dni nri ihu xpi filij dei viui et veri amen. Incipit plogus i libro dni marci pauli de venecijs de cosuetudinibus et codicionibus orientaliu regionu.

  Then the declaration of “Frater franciscus pepur. de bononia frm pdicatoru” who translated the work from the vulgar language into Latin.

  End p. 147: Explicit liber dni marci de venecijs Deo gracias.

  Collation: 74 f. or 148 pages; the last is blank, 4to, no title, no pagination; signatures p. 1, a. 1 = p. 141, k. 3 (a-h, par 8; i, by 4; k, by 6); maximum 33 lines by page; [1485?].

  It is interesting to note that Christopher Columbus had a copy of this edition of Marco Polo, now kept in the Colombina at Seville. The margins of the following folios contain the autograph notes of the great navigator:

  9 v.	31 r. & v.	46 v.	55 r. & v.	66 r. & v.
  13 v.	36 v.	47 r. & v.	57 r. & v.	67 r. & v.
  15 r. & v.	38 v.	48 r. & v.	59 r. & v.	68 r. & v.
  17 v.	39 r.	49 r. & v.	60 r. & v.	69 r. & v.
  18 r. & v.	40 r. & v.	50 r. & v.	61 r. & v.	70 r. & v.
  19 r.	41 r.	51 r. & v.	62 r. & v.	71 r. & v.
  23 r. & v.	42 r. & v.	52 r. & v.	63 r.	72 r. & v.
  24 r. & v.	43 r. & v.	53 r. & v.	64 v.	73 r. & v.
  25 r.	44 r. & v.	54 r.	65 r. & v.	74 r.

  Cf. Simón de la Rosa y Lopéz, pp. XXIII, XLIII-XLIV of vol. II, Sevilla, 1891, 4to: Biblioteca Colombina.— Catálogo de sus libros impresos publicado por primera vez en virtud de acuerdo del Excmo. é Ilmo. Sr. Déan y Cabildo de la Santa Metropolitana y Patriarcal Iglesia de Sevilla bajo la immediata dirección de su Bibliotecario el Ilmo. Sr. Dr. D. Servando Arbolf y Faraudo Dignidad de Capellán Mayor de San Fernando.— See also H. Harrisse, Bibl. americana vetustissima.— Additions, p. XII.

  “Edition fort rare, dit Brunet, et la plus ancienne que l’on ait de cette version latine de Marco Polo, faite par Pipino, vers 1320. Elle est imprimée avec les mêmes caractères, que l’Itinerarium de Joan. de Mandeville, c’est-à-dire par Gerard de Leeu, à Anvers, vers 1485, et non pas à Rome et à Venise, comme on l’avait supposé. Vend. 4 liv. 14 sh. 6d. Hanrott; 7 liv. Libri en 1859. (Choicer portion, 1562.)” Brunet writes elsewhere (cf. Mandeville par H. Cordier) about Mandeville from the same press: “ . . . La souscription que nous allons rapporter semble prouver qu’elle a été imprimée à Venise; cependant Panzer, IX, 200, la croit sortie des presses de Theodoric Martin, à Aloste, et M. Grenville en trouvait les caractères conformes à ceux que Gérard Leeu a employés à Anvers, de 1484–1485. M. Campbell (Ann. de la typ. néerlandaise) la donne à Gérard Leeu, et fixe la date de l’impression à la première année du séjour de ce typographe à Anvers, après son départ de Gouda.”

  It is certain from the use of the signatures a, aa, a, and the similitude of the type of the three works, that the Mandeville, the Ludolphe, and the Marco Polo come from the same printing office, and have been printed together as it seems to be proved by the copy of the Sunderland Library, which was complete and contained the three works.

  Lazari, p. 460, writes: “Jo. de Mandeville itineraria: Dom. Ludolph. de itinere ad Terrain Sanctam: M. Paul. Venet. de regionibus orientalibus. Liber rariss. Zwollis, 1483, in4.

  “Leggiamo questa nota nell’ opera Bibliotheca Beauclerkiana or Sale catalogue of the books of Topham Beauclerk’s Library, London, 1781, P. II., p. 15, n. 430. Marsden però ritiene celarsi sotto quell’erronea indicazione la seguente prima edizione [s.a., 4to] latina de’ viaggi di M. Polo. Fgli istitui molte ricerche per rinvenire in Inghilterra quell’ esemplare, ma non gli è stato possibile di averne traccia.”

• 11.— 2. Marci Pavli Veneti, de Regionibvs orientalibvs Libri III. (Novus Orbis Regionum).

  Editions of 1532, 1537, 1555.— See 3–3.

• 12.— 3. Marci Pavli || Veneti Itinerarivm, || seu de rebus Orientalibus || Libri tres. || Helmaestadii, || M.D. LXXXV, 4to.

  Part of the Collection of Reineccius:

  — Reineri Reinecii || Polyhistoris clarissimi || Historia O—|| rientalis: || Hoc est || Rerum in oriente à Christianis, Saracenis, Tur-||cis & Tartaris gestarum diuersorum || Auctorum. || Totum opus in duas partes tribulum est, || contenta in singulis sequens || pagina indicat. || Helmaestadii, || Typis Iacobi Lucij, impensis heredum Ludolphi || Brandes. Anno 1602, 4to.

  Verso of the title:

  Primus Tomus continet:

  — Chronicon Hierosolomytanum, cum appen-||dice Reineri Reineccij & Chronologia || Henr. Meibomij.

  In Altero sunt:

  — Vita Henrici VII. Imp. auctore Conrado Vec-||erio.

  — Vita Caroli IIII. Imp. ab ipso Carolo con||scripta.

  — Historia Orientalis Haythoni Armenij.

  — Pauli Veneti Itinerarium.

  — Fragmentum de reb. orientalibus ex Speculo || Historiali Vincentij Beluacensis.

  — Appendix ad Expositiones Haythoni auctore || Rein. Reineccio.

  The colophon at the end of the first part has the date of 1584; at the end of the second part, 1585.

  — This Marco Polo was reprinted according to Lazari, p. 465, in 1602.

• 13.— 4. MARCI PAULI VENETI, || Historici fidelissimi juxta ac praestantissimi, || de || REGIONIBUS || orientalibus || libri III. || Cum Codice Manuscripto Biblio-|| thecae Electoralis Brandenburgicae collati, exq’; || eo adjectis Notis plurimum turn suppleti || tum illustrati. || Accedit, propter cognationem materiae, || HAITHONI ARMENI HISTORIA || orientalis: quae & de Tartaris || inscribitur; || Itemque || ANDREAE MULLERI, Greiffenhagii, || de CHATAJA, cujus praedictorum Auctorum uter-|| que mentionem facit, DISQUISITIO; inque ipsum || Marcum Paulum Venetum PRAEFATIO, & || locupletissimi INDICES. || Coloniae Brandenburgicae, ||— Ex Officina Georgii Schulzii, Typogr. Elect. || Anno M. DC. LXXI. 4to.

  Contains:

  Engraved frontispiece.

  Dedicatory Epistle, 3 ff. not numbered.

  Andreae MÜLLERI Greiffenhagii, in Marci Pauli Veneti Chorographiam, Praefatio pp. 26.

  Doctorum Virorum De hoc Marci Pauli Veneti Opere Testimonia, ac Judicia . . . (Franciscus Pipinus, etc.) 8 ff. n. ch.

  MARCI PAULI Veneti De Regionibus orientalibus Libri III, pp. 167.

  Index primus Historicus, Sive alphabetica Recensio omnium eorum, quae Autor passim observavit, atque aliàs memoranda reliquit, 22 ff. not numbered.

  Index secundus Chronographicus, qui Annos & cujuslibet anni NOTABILIA (quae quidem Autor designavit) continet, 1 page.

  Index tertius Itineraries, Ubi Loca recensentur, quae auctor pertransiit, & Distanstantiae Locorum, quas ipse annotavit, 2 ff. not numbered.

  Index quartus Glossarius, Estque vocum exoticarum, quas Autor ipse interpretatus est, 1 half p.

  Emendanda in Marco Paulo Veneto, quaeq; ad hunc pertinent: aut ad eadem Addenda, 1 f. not numbered.

  HAITHONI Armeni || Historia ori-||entalis: || Qvae eadem & De Tartaris || inscribitur.|| Anno || CIC. ICC. LXXI, 2 ff. not numbered + pp. 107.

  [Errata] 2 pp. not numbered.

  Index, 7 pp. not numbered.

  Andreae MÜLLERI, || Greiffenhagii, || DISQUISITIO || Geographica & Historica, || De || CHATAJA, || In Quâ || I. Praecipuè Geographorum nobilis || illa Controversia: Quaenam CHATAJA sit, & an || sit idem ille terrarum tractus, quem Sinas, & vul-|| gó Chinam vocant, aut pars ejus aliqua? || latissimè tractatur; || 2. Eâdem verò operâ pleraque rerum, quae unquam || de Chataja, deque Sinis memorabilia || fuerunt, atque etiam nunc sunt, compendiosè || enarrantur. ||— Ecclesiastae I. v. 15. ||: [Hebrew] || Senec. de Beneficiis VI. I. || Etiam quod discere supervacuum est prodest || cognoscere. ||— Berolini, Typis Rungianis. || Anno M. DC. LXX, 2 ff. not numbered + pp. 115 on 2 col.

  C.— Italian Editions.

• 14.— 1. Marco Polo da Venie || sia de le merauegliose || cose del Mondo.

  Below this title the mark of the printer SESSA: a cat holding a mouse in its mouth with the initials I and B on the right and on the left of the coat of arms (with a ducal crown above) which exhibits this group, and S at foot. Verso of f. 83:

  Finisse lo libro de Marco Polo da Venie || sia dele merauegliose cose del modo Im || presso in Venetia per zoanne Baptista || da Sessa Milanese del M. ccccxcvi. || adi. xiii. del mese de Iunio regna || do lo Illustrissimo Principe Au || gustino Barbadico inclyto || Duce di Venetia.

  Recto of folio 84: “Registro. a b c d e f g h i k l Tutti questi sono quaderni excepto l chie duerno”; audessous le monogramme de l’imprimeur en blanc sur fond noir.— Verso of folio 84 is blank.

  The copy which I have examined is in the Grenville Library, No. 6666. It is in fine condition and complete, notwithstanding what the Sobolewski Sale Catalogue says to the contrary (No. 1730): it is a small 8vo ff. 84; each quire containing, as is indicated by the register, eight sheets, except quire 1, which has but four.

  Grenville added to his copy the following note: “This appears to be the first edition printed in the original Italian.— The Abbé Morelli who sent me this book from Venice had found great difficulty in procuring a copy for the Library of St. Marc.— Panzer III. 396, refers only to the mention made of it by Denis. Supp. I, p’e 415. I know of no other copy in England. . . . ”

  Lazari, p. 460, says: “Prima e rarissima edizione del compendio veneziano. Un capitolo che parla di Trebisonda, tratto dal viaggio di Fr. Odorico, precede il testo del Polo mutilo e scorrettissimo: quel capitolo non forma però parte d’esso, come nelle molte ristampe di questo compendio.”

  See Odoric de Pordenone, par Henri Cordier, p. 9.

  Ternaux–Compans (29) mentions an edition of Sessa of 1486, which does not seem to exist.

• 15 — 2. Marco Polo da Vene || sia de le maraueliose || cose del Mondo. || Small 8vo.; 64 ff. non chif., sig. a-i: a-g by 8 = 56 ff., h and i by 4 = 8 ff., total 64 ff.

  Collation:

  Recto 1st f.: border; vignette; above the vig. title ut supra.

  Verso 1st f. begins: Tractate delle più maraueliose cose e delle piu notabile: che si ri || trouano nelle pte del modo. Re || dutte & racolte sotto breuita . . .

  Recto f. 64: Impressa la presente opera per el Venerabile mi || ser pre Batista da Farfengo nella Magnifica cita de || Bressa. adi. xx. December. M. CCCCC. ||

  “Ristampa dell’ edizione 1496, leggiermente modificata nella introduzione. Rarissima.” (Lazari, p. 460.)

• 16.— 3. Marco Polo da Veniesia || de le marauegliose co= || se del Mondo. small 8vo, 56 ff. not numbered, sig. a-g by 8.

  Collation: title ut supra: Printer’s mark: a cat holding a mouse in its mouth, M O on the sides; S at foot.— Ends, recto f. 56; Impresso in Venetia per Melchior Sessa. An||no Dñi. M. CCCCC VIII. Adi. xxi. zugno.

• 17.— 4. Marco Polo || Venetiano || in CVI si tratta le meravi||gliose cose del mondo per lui uedute: del costu=||me di uarij paesi, dello stranio uiuere di || quelli; della descrittione de diuersi || animali, e del trouar dell’ o=||ro, dell’ argento, e delle || pietre preciose, co=||sa non men uti||le, che bel||la. [Vignette.] || In Venetia, 8vo; 56 ff. n. ch., sig. a-g by 8.

  At the end: Finite é lo libro de Marco Polo da Venetia delle: || marauegliose cose del mondo. || In Venetia per Matthio Pagan, in Frezaria, || al segno della Fede. 1555.

  “Ristampa dell’ edizione 1496. La edizione 1555 fu riprodotta dello stesso Mathio Pagan senza data.” (Lazari, p. 463.)

  A copy s.d. exists in the Grenville Library (304. a. 23), this is the title of it:

• 18.— 5. Marco Polo || Venetiano. || In cvi si tratta le meravi||gliose cose del mondo per lui uedute, del costu||me di uarij paesi, dello stranio uiuere di || quelli; della descrittione de diuersi || animali, e del trouar dell’ oro || dell’ argento, e delle pie||tre preciose, cosa || non men utile, || che bel||la. In Venetia. s.d., 8vo., 56 ff. not numbered, sig. a-g by 8. At the end: In Venetia per Mathio Pagan, in Freza||ria, al Segno della Fede. — On the title M. Pagan’s mark.

• 19.— 6. Opera stampata nouame||te delle marauigliose co=||se del mondo: comin=||ciado da Leuante a ponente fin al me||zo di. El mondo nouo & isole & lo=||chi incogniti & siluestri abonda||ti e sterili & doue aboda loro || & largento & Zoglie & pie || tre pciose & animali & || mostri spaurosi & do||ue manzano car=||ne humana e || i gesti & vi=||uer & co=||stumi || de quelli paesi cosa certamete molto cu=|lriosa de intendere & sapere.

  Small 8vo, 56 ff. not numbered, sig. a-g by 8. At foot of recto f. 56: Finito lo libro de Marco Polo da Venetia de le || marauegliose cose del mondo. || Stampata in Venetia per Paulo Danza Anno. || Dni M.D. xxxiij. Adi 10 Febraro. ||

  Reprint of the 1496 edition.

• 20.— 7. De i Viaggi di Messer Marco Polo Gentil’hvomo Venetiano (Ramusio, II, 1606.)

  See the former editions of Ramusio.

• 21.— 8. Marco Polo || Venetiano, || Delle Merauiglie del Mondo || per lui vedute; || Del Costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio || viuer di quelli. || Della Descrittione de diuersi Animali. || Del trouar dell’ Oro, & dell’ Argento. || Delle Pietre Preciose. || Cosa non meno vtile, che bella. || Di nouo Ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine || suo vero nel dire. || In Treuigi, Ad instantia di Aurelio Reghet||tini Libraro. M DXC. 8vo, 57 ff. numbered, a-g x 8 = 56 ff. + h X 1 = 57 ff.; vignette on the title; 1 wood-cut, not inserted in the text.

  The wood-cut is not to be found in the copy of the British Museum, G bbb 8.

• 22.— 9. Marco Polo Venetiano, Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per lui vedute; Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli. Della Descrittione de diuersi Animali. Del trouar Dell’ Oro, & dell’ Argento. Delle Pietre Preciose. Cosa non meno vtile, che bella, Di nouo Ristampato, & Osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. In Venetia, Appresso Marco Claseri, M DXCVII, 8vo, pp. 128, no cut.

• 23.— 10. Marco Polo || Venetiano, || Delle Maraviglie del Mondo || per lui vedute. || Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio viuer || di quelli. || Della Descrittione de diuersi Animali. || Del trouar dell’ Oro, & dell’ Argento. || Delle Pietre Pretiose. || Cosa non meno vtile, che bella. || Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo || vero nel dire. || [fleuron] In Venetia, M DCII. || Appresso Paolo Vgolino, small 8vo pp. 104; no cut.

  Page 104: Finito è lo Libro di Marco Polo da Venetia delle || Marauigliose cose del Mondo.

  This edition differs from the following bearing the same date:

• 24.— 11. Marco Polo Venetiano, Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per lui vedute. Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio viuere di quelli. Della Descritione de diuersi Animali. Del trouar Dell’ oro, & dell’ Argento. Delle Pietre Preciose. Cosa non meno vtile, che bella. Di nouo Risstampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. In Venetia. M DCII. Appresso Paulo Vgolino, 8vo, pp. 128; on the title, vig. exhibiting David carrying the head of Goliath; no cut.

• 25.— 12. Marco Polo Venetiano, Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per lui vedute. Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli. Della Descrittione de diuersi Animali. Dell trouar dell’ Oro, & dell’ Argento. Delle Pietre Preciose. Cosa non meno vtile, che bella. Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. Con licenza de’ Superiori, & Priuilegio. In Venetia, M. DC. XXVI. Appresso Ghirardo, & Iseppo Imberti, small 8vo, pp. 128; 1 wood-cut, not inserted in the text.

• 26.— 13. Marco Polo || Venetiano. || Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per || lui vedute. || Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli. || De la Descrittione de diuersi Animali. || Del trouar dell’ Oro, & de l’Argento. || Delle Pietre preciose. || Cosa non meno utile, che bella. || Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine || suo vero nel dire. || In Venetia, & poi in Treuigi per Angelo Righettini. 1267 [read 1627]. || Con Licenza de’ Superiori, small 8vo, pp. 128; 1 wood-cut, not inserted in the text.

• 27.— 14. Marco Polo || Venetiano. || Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per || lui vedute. || Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli. || De la Descrittione de diuersi Animali. || Del trouar dell’ Oro, & de l’Argento. || Delle Pietre preciose. || Cosa non meno utile, che bella. Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo || vero nel dire. || In Treuigi, Appresso Girolamo Righettini: 1640. || Con Licenza de Superiori, small 8vo, 128 pages with a vignette on the title, printer’s mark; wood-cut f. 2 verso.

• 28.— 15.—* In Trevigi M. DC. LVII., appresso Girolamo Righettini, 8vo.

• 29.— 16. Marco Polo Venetiano. Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per lui vedute. I. Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello strano viuer di quelli. II. De la Descrittione de diuersi Animali. III. Del trouar dell’ Oro, & dell’ Argento. IV. Delle Pietre pretiose. Cosa non meno vtile, che bella. Si nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. In Trevigi, Per il Righettini. M. DC. LXV. Con Licenza de’ Svperiori, small 8vo, 128 pp. with a wood-cut.

• 30.— 17. Marco Polo Venetiano Delle Merauiglie del Mondo per lui vedute. I. Del costume di varij Paesi, & dello strano viuer di quelli. II. Della Descrittione de diuersi Animali. III. Del trouar dell’ Oro, & dell’ Argento. IV. Delle Pietre pretiose. Cosa non meno vtile, che bella. Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. In Trevigi, Per il Reghettini. M. DC. LXXII. Con Licenza de’ Svperiori, small 8vo. pp. 128; 1 cut not inserted in the text.

  These various editions are reprints of the text of 1496.

• 31.— 18. Il Milione || di Marco Polo || Testo di lingua || del secolo decimoterzo || ora per la prima volta || pubblicato ed illustrato || dal Conte || Gio. Batt. Baldelli Boni. || Tomo primo || Firenze || Da’ Torchi di Giuseppe Pagani || M. DCCCXXVII. || Con approv. e privilegio, 4to, pp. XXXII.-CLXXV.-234+1 f. not numbered for the index.

  INDICE: Vita di Marco Polo, P.I.— Sommario Cronologico della Vita del Polo, P. XXV.— Storia del Milione, P.I.— Illustrazione della Tela del Salone dello Scudo, P. CV.— Descrizione dell’ Atlante Cinese, posseduto dalla Magliabechiana, P. CIX.— Schiarimento relativo all’ età dell’ Atlante Cinese, P. CXXI.— Notizia dei Manoscritti del Milione, di cui si è fatto uso nell’ Opera, o veduti, o fatti riscontrare, P. CXXIII.— Della Porcellana. Discorso, P. CXXXVII.— Del Portulano Mediceo, e delle Scoperte dei Genovesi nell’ Atlantico. Discorso, P. CLIII.— Voci del Milione di Marco Polo, citate dal Vocabolario della Crusca, P. CLXXIII.— Voci tratte dal Testo del Polo, e da citarsi dal Vocabolario della Crusca, P. CLXXIV. — Il Milione di Marco Polo, TESTO DELLA CRUSCA, P.I.

  — Il Milione || di || Messer Marco Polo || Viniziano || Secondo la lezione Ramusiana || illustrato e comentato || dal Conte || Gio. Batt. Baldelli Boni || Tomo Secondo || Firenze || Da’ Torchi di Giuseppe Pagani || M DCCC XXVII. || Con approv. e privilegio, 4to, pp. XXVI.-514 + 2 ff. n. ch.

  INDICE: Dichiarazione al Libro Primo, P. 1.— Proemio di Fra Pipino al Milione, P. 3.— TESTO RAMUSIANO del Milione. Libro Primo, P. 5 — Dichiarazione al Libro Secondo, per rischiarare le Legazioni di Marco Polo, P. 147.— Libro Secondo, P. 153.— Dichiarazione alla parte seconda del Libro Secondo. Delia Lingua Cinese, P. 223.— Libro Terzo, P. 357.— Aggiunte e Correzioni, P. 481.

  — Storia || delle || Relazioni vicendevoli || Dell’ Europa e dell’ Asia || dalla Decadenza di Roma || fino alla || distruzione del Califfato || del Conte || Gio. Batt. Baldelli Boni. || Parte Prima || Firenze || Da’ Torchi di Giuseppe Pagani || M DCCC XXVII. || Con approv. e privilegio, 4to, 4 ff. n. c. for the tit. and the ded.: “A Sua Altezza Imperiale e Reale Leopoldo Secondo Principe Imperiale d’Austria . . . ” +pp. 466.

  — Parte Seconda || Firenze || Da’ Torchi di Giuseppe Pagani || M DCCC XXVII. || Con approv. e privilegio, 4to, pp. 467 to 1004 + 1 f. n. ch.

  Eighty copies of Baldelli–Boni’s work were printed on large paper, and two on vellum.

  Two maps generally bound apart accompany the work.

• 32.— 19. I Viaggi in Asia in Africa, nel mare dell’ Indie descritti nel secolo XIII da Marco Polo Veneziano. Testo di lingua detto Il Milione illustrato con annotazioni. Venezia, dalla tipografia di Alvisopoli, M DCCC XXIX, 2 parts, 8vo, pp. xxi + 1–189, 195–397.

  “Ristampa del Testo di Crusca procurata da B. Gamba il quale vi appose piccole note a pie di pagina.” (Lazari, p. 470.)

  “Il en a été tiré 100 exemplaires, in8, auxquels est jointe la carte géographique qui fait partie de l’ouvrage de Zurla. Il y en a aussi des exemplaires in8, très grand Pap., et sur des papiers de différentes couleurs.” (Brunet.)

• 33.— 20. Il Libro di Marco Polo intitolato il Milione. (Relazioni di Viaggiatori, Venezia, co’ tipi del Gondoliere, M DCCC XLI, I, pp. 1–231.)

  Reprint of the Crusca Text.— See Baldelli–Boni, supra 31–18.

  Gondoliere’s Collection form vol. i. and ii. of the class XI. of the Biblioteca classica italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti disposta e illustrata da Luigi Carrer.

• 34.— 21. I Viaggi in Asia in Africa, nel marc dell’ Indie descritti nel secolo XIII da Marco Polo Veneziano testo di lingua detto Il Milione illustrato con annotazioni. Volume unico. Parma, per Pietro Fiaccadori, M DCCC XLIII, Small 8vo, pp. IV.-308.

  Reprint of the Crusca Text.

• 35.— 22. I Viaggi in Asia, in Africa, nel mare dell’ Indie descritti nel secolo XIII da Marco Polo Veneziano. Testo di lingua detto II Milione. Udine, Onofrio Turchetto, Tip. edit. 1851, 16mo, pp. X.-207

• 36.— 23. I Viaggi || di || Marco Polo || Veneziano || tradotti per la prima volta dall’ originale francese || di Rusticiano di Pisa || e corredati d’illustrazioni e di documenti || da Vincenzo Lazari || pubblicati per cura || di Lodovico Pasini || membro eff. e segretario dell’ I.R. Istituto Veneto. || Venezia || M DCCC XLVII, 8vo, pp. LXIV.-484, map.

  Verso of the title: “Coi Tipi di Pietro Naratovitch.”

  See pp. 447–471, Bibliografia.— Pp. 473–484, Indice Alfabetico delle Materie.

• 37.— 24. I Viaggi di Marco Polo secondo la lezione del Codice Magliabechiano più antico reintegrati col testo francese a stampa per cura di Adolfo Bartoli. Firenze, Felice Le Monnier, 1863, small 8vo, pp. LXXXIII.— 439.

• 38.— 25. Il Milione ossia Viaggi in Asia, in Africa e nel Mar delle Indie descritti nel secolo XIII da Marco Polo Veneziano. Torino, Tip. dell’ oratorio di S. Franc, di Sales, 1873, 32mo, pp. 280.

  Biblioteca della Gioventù Italiana.

• 39.— 26. Giulio Verne. I Viaggi di Marco Polo unica versione originale fedelmente riscontrata sub codice Magliabeccano e sulle opere di Charton per cura di Ezio Colombo. Volume Unico. Milano, Serafino Muggiani e Comp., 1878, 16mo, pp. 143.

  The frontispiece is a coarse wood-cut exhibiting Marco Polo; this vol. is part of a popular Collection of Travels.

• 40.— 27. Marco Polo.— I Viaggi secondo la lezione del codice Magliabechiano più antico. Milano, Sonzogno, 1886, 16mo.

  See supra 37–24.

  D.— Portuguese Edition

• 41.— 1. MARCO || PAULO. ¶ Ho liuro de Nycolao veneto. ¶ O trallado da carta de huu genoues das ditas terras. ¶ Cõ priuilegio del Rey nosso senhor q nenhuu faça a impres || sam deste liuro ne ho venda em todollos se’ regnos & senho=||rios sem liçeça de Valentim fernãdez so pena cõteuda na car || ta do seu preuilegio. Ho preço delle. Cento & dez reaes. folio of 106 ff.

  Collation: 8 prel. ff. n. chiff., and 98 ff. numbered.

  Recto 1st f.: Titre ut supra.— Vignette showing a sphere.

  Verso 2nd f.: Começase a epistola sobre a tralladaça do liuro de || Marco paulo. Feita per Valetym fernãdez escudey || ro da excellentissima Raynha Dona Lyanor. Ende || rençada ao Serenissimo & Inuictissimo Rey & Sen ||hor Dom Emanuel o primeiro. Rey de Portugal & || dos Alguarues. daque & alem mar em Africa. Sen || hor de Buynee. E da conquista da nauegaçom & co||mercio de Ethiopia. Arabia. Persia. & da India.

  Recto 7th f.: Começase a tauoa dos capitulos do liuro Primeyro.

  Recto 1st f. chif.: Começase ho Liuro Primeiro de Marco paulo || de Veneza das condiçoões & custumes das getes || & das terras & prouincias orientaes. E prime y ra||mente de como & em que maneyra Dom Marco=|| paulo de Veneza & Dom Maffeo seu irmaão se pas||sarom aas partes do oriente; vig. repres. a galley; border.

  Verso f. 77: End of Marco Polo.

  Recto f. 78: Nicolo Conti.

  Verso f. 95: End of Nicolo Conti.

  Recto f. 96: A Carta do genoues.

  Verso f. 98: Acabase ho liuro de Marco paulo. cõ ho liuro de Nicolao ve=||neto ou veneziano. & assi mesmo ho trallado de hua carta de huu || genoues mercador. que todos escreuerõ das Indias. a seruiço || de d’s. & auisameto daquelles q agora vam pera as ditas Indias || Aos quaes rogo & peço humilmente q benignamete queirã eme||dar & correger ho que menos achare no escreuer. s. nos vocabul’ || das prouincias. regnos. çidades. ylhas. & outras cousas muytas || & nõ menos em a distãcia das legoas de hua terra pa outra. Im=|| primido per Valentym fernãdez alemaão. Em a muy nobre çida || de Lyxboa. Era de Mil & quinhentos & dous annos. Aos. qua||tro dias do mes de Feureyro.— At the top, printer’s mark.

  A detailed description of this edition is to be found in Figanière’s Bibliographia, No. 947.

  E.— Spanish Editions.

• 42.— 1. Cosmographia || breue introdu||ctoria en el libro || d’ Marco paulo. ||— El libro del famoso Marco paulo || veneciano d’las cosas marauillosas || q vido enlas partes orietales cõuie || ne saber enlas Indias. Armenia. A||rabia. Persia & Tartaria. E d’l pode || rio d’l gra Ca y otros reyes. Co otro || tratado de micer Pogio floretino q || trata delas mesmas tierras & yslas.

  Folio; 2 col.; 34 ff. numbered and 4 prel ff. not numbered.

  On the title page 4 woodcuts exhibiting:

  Marc paulo.
  Micer pogio.
  S. Domingo, ela ysla Isabela.
  Calicu.

  — The 4 prelim. ff. contain:

  — Recto 1 f.: Title.
  — Verso 1 f.: Prologo primero.
  — F. 2 and 3: Maestre Rodrigo al lector.
  — F. 4: Tabla de los capitulos.

  — Marco Polo, ff. 1/26.

  — Tratado de Micer Pogio, ff. 27-recto f. 27 [read 34].

  — Last f. v. [numbered xxvij erroneously for xxxiv.]

  “Acabase el libro del famoso Marco paulo vene||ciano el ql cueta de todas las tierras prouicias & islas delas Indias. Arabia || Persia Armenia y Tartaria y d’las cosas marauillosas que enellas se ha||llan assi mesmo el gra señorio y riquezas del gran Can de Catayo se||ñor delos tartaros | añadido en fin vn tratado breue de micer Pogio || florentino el qual el mesmo escriuio por mandado de eugenio papa || quarto deste nombre por relacion de vn Nicolao [Conti] veneciano el || qual assi mesmo auia andado las ptidas orietales & de otros || testigos dinos d’ fe como por el parece fiel mete trasladado || en lengua castellana por el reueredo señor maestre Rodri||go de santa ella | Arcediano de reyna y canonigo ela sa || ta yglesia de Seuilla. El ql se eprimio por La [?] alao || polono y Jacome Crõberger alemano ela muy || noble y muy leal ciudad d’Seuilla. Año de || mil & q’ nietos y tres a. xxviij. dias d’mayo.”

• 43 — 2. Libro del famoso Marco || Polo veneciano delas cosas maraui||llosas q vido enlas partes orien=||tales: conuiene saber enlas|| Indias | Armenia | Ara||bia | Persia | & Tarta||ria. Edel poderio || del gran Can y || otros reyes. || Con otro || tratado || de mi||cer || Pogio Florentino & trata || delas mesmas tie=||rras & islas. s.l.n.d., fol.; 2 col. [Logroño, 1529].

  Collation: 4 prel. ff. not numbered + signatures a-d × 8 = 32 ff.; in all 36 ff. F. 1. v.: Prologo del Interprete.— f. 2 r. Cosmographia introductoria.— f. 3. v.: Tabla — f. 4 v.: Fin dela Tabla.— 32 numbered f. follow: F. i.— Begins: Libro de Marco Polo Veneciano || (col. 1.) Aqui comiença vn || libro que trata delas cosas marauillosas || que el noble varon micer Marco Polo de || Venecia vido enlas partes de Oriente.

  Ends: recto f. xxxij: La presente obra del famoso Marco || Polo veneciano q fue traduzida fielmete de lengua veneciana en || castellano por el reueredo señor maestre Rodrigo Arcedia||no de reyna y canonigo enla yglesia de Seuilla. || Fue impressa y corregida de nueuo enla || muy constante y leal civdad de || Logroño en casa d’Mi||guel de eguia || a treze || de junio de mill & qui||nientos y. xx. & nueue. ||

  “Cette édition de 1529, says Brunet est fort rare: 2 liv. 9 sh. Heber; 210 flor. Butsch, et 130 fr. en 1859.— Il y en a une plus ancienne de Séville, Cromberger, 1520 infol., que cite Panzer d’après Vogt.”

  Lazari says of this edition of 1520, p. 461: “Di estrema rarità. Questa traduzione è tratta da un antico testo italiano: l’autore n’é Maestro Rodrigo de Santaella.”

• 44.— 3. Historia || de las Gran-||dezas y Cosas || marauillosas de las Prouin-||cias Orientales. || Sacada de Marco Pavlo || Veneto, y traduzida de Latin en Romance, y aña-|| dida en muchas partes por Don Martin de Bolea || y Castro, Varon de Clamosa, || señor de la Villa de || Sietamo. || Dirigida a Don Beltran de || la Cueba, Duque de Alburquerque, Marques de|| Cuellar, Conde de Ledesma y Guelma, Lugar-|| teniente, y Capitan Geneial por su Ma-||gestad, en el Reyno de || Aragon. || Con Licencia, en Caragoça. || Por Angelo Tauano, Año. M. DCI, 8vo, 8 ff. n. ch.+163 ff.+ 8 ff. n. ch. for the tab. and errata. Last f. n. ch. verso: En Caragoça || Por Angelo Tauano || Año. 1601.

• 45.— 4. Biblioteca universal. Coleccion de los Mejores autores antiguos y modernos, nacionales y extranjeros. Tomo LXVI. Los Viages de Marco Polo veneciano. Madrid. Direccion y administracion, 1880, 16mo, pp. 192.

  “La edicion que hemos tenido principalmente à la vista, para formar este volúmen de nuestra Biblioteca, es la de Ludovico Pasini, Venecia 1847.”

  F.— French Editions.

• 46.— 1. La || description geo-||graphiqve des Provinces || & villes plus fameuses de l’Inde Orientale, meurs, || loix, & coustumes des habitans d’icelles, mesme-||ment de ce qui est soubz la domination du grand || Cham Empereur des Tartares. || Par Marc Paule gentilhomme Venetien, || Et nouuellement reduict en || vulgaire François. || [mark] A Paris, || Pour Vincent Sertenas tenant sa boutique au Palais en la gallerie par || ou on va a la Chacellerie. Et en larue neuue Nostre dame l’image sainct lehan l’Euangeliste. || 1556. || Avec Privilege dv Roy, || 4to, 10 prel. f. not numbered + 123 ff. numbered + I f. not numbered.

  Sommaire dv Privilege du Roy (verso of title).— Episle “A Adrian de Lavnay sei||gneur de sainct Germain le Vieil, Viconte de || sainct Siluain, Notaire & Secretaire || du Roy.” F.G.L.S.— De Paris ce xviii. iour d’Aoust 1556, 3 pages.— Preface av lectevr par F.G.L., 5 pages.— Table, 8 pages.— Pièces de vers 2 pages at the beginning and an advertisement (1 page) at the end.

  Begins page 1: “Lors que Bauldoyn Prince Chre||stien tat fameux & renommé tenoit || l’Empire de Constãtinople, assavoir || en Pan de l’incarnation de nostre || Saulueur mil deux cens soixante & || neuf, deux nobles & prudes citoyes || de Venise. . . .

  Verso of last f. not numbered, the mark of Vincent Sertenas.

  Oldest edition in French.

  Marsden and Yule believe that it has been translated from the Latin of the Novus Orbis.

• 47.— 2. Same title. A Paris, || Pour Estienne Groulleau, demourant en la rue neuue Nostre || dame, à l’image sainct Iehan Baptiste. || 1556. || Avec privilege dv Roy, 4to.

  Same edition with a different bookseller.

• 48.— 3. La Description geographique . . . de l’Inde Orientale . . . Par Marc Paule . . . || A Paris, || Pour Jehan Longis tenant sa boutique au Palais en la gallerie par || ou on va à la Chancellerie. || 1556.|| Auec Priuilege du Roy. 4to.

  Same edition as Sertenas’ with the privilege of this bookseller. A copy is marked in the Catalogue des livres . . . de . . . James de Rothschild, II, Paris, 1887, No. 1938. M.E. Picot remarks that the Preface by F.G. L., as well as the motto Inter utrumque belong to FRANÇOIS GRUGET, Lochois, who in the same year edited with the same booksellers the Dodechedron de Fortune.

• 49.— 4. Les || Voiages || très-curieux & fort remarquables, || Achevées par toute || l’Asie, Tartarie, Mangi, Japon, || les || Indes orientales, iles adjacentes, || & l’Afrique, || Commencées l’An 1252. || Par Marc Paul, Venitien, || Historien recommandable pour sa fidelité. || Qui contiennent une Relation très-exacte des Païs Orientaux: || Dans laquelle il décrit très exactement plusieurs Païs & Villes, lesquelles || Lui même a Voiagées & vües la pluspart: & où il nous enseigne briévement || les Moeurs & Coutumes de ces Peuples, avant ce tems là inconnues aux|| Européens; || Comme aussi l’origine de la puissance des Tartares, quand à leurs Conquêtes || de plusieurs Etats ou Païs dans la Chine, ici clairement proposée & expliquée. || Le tout divisé en III. Livres, || Conferé avec un Manuscrit de la Bibliothèque de S.A.E. de Brandebourg, || & enrichi de plusieurs Notes & Additions tirées du dit Manuscrit, || de l’Edition de Ramuzio, de celle de Purchas, || & de celle de Vitriare.

  Form a part of 43 and 185 col. in vol. ii. of Voyages faits principalement en Asie . . . par Pierre Bergeron. A la Haye, Chez Jean Neaulme M. DCC. XXXV, in 4.

  After André Müller Greiffenhag.

  Remark on the title-page the date of the voyage 1252! In the text, col. 6, it is marked 1272.

• 50.— 5. Marco Polo — Un Vénitien chez les Chinois avec étude biographique et littéraire par Charles Simond. Paris, Henri Gautier, s.d. [1888], pp^t 8vo, pp. 32.

  Forms No. 122 of Nouvelle Bibliothèque populaire à 10 Cent. Besides a short biographical notice, it contains Bergeron’s Text.

• 51.— 6. Voyages de Marco Polo. Première partie. Introduction, Texte. Glossaire et Variantes.

  Introduction, pp. xi.-liv. [by Roux.]

  Voyage de Marc Pol, pp. 1–288 — Table des Chapitres, pp. 289–296. [Published from MS. 7367 of the Bibliothèque nationale.]

  Peregrinatio Marci Pauli. Ex Manuscripto Bibliothecae Regiae, No 3195 f°, pp. 297–494 — Index Capitum, pp. 495–502.

  Glossaire des mots hors d’usage, pp. 503–530 [by Méon].

  Errata, pp. 531–532.

  Variantes et Tableau comparatif des noms propres et des noms de lieux cités dans les voyages de Marco Polo, pp. 533–552.

  (Vol. i. 1824, of the Recueil de Voyages, de la Société de géographie de Paris.)

  — Rapport sur la Publication des Voyages de Marco Polo, fait au nom de la section de publication, par M. Roux, rapporteur. (Bull. de la Soc. de Géog., I. 1822, pp. 181–191.)

  — Itinéraires à Jérusalem et Descriptions de la Terre Sainte rédigés en français aux xi’e, xii’e, & xiii’e siècles publiés par Henri Michelant & Gaston Raynaud. Genève, Fick, 1882, in8.

  Voyage des Polo, pp. xxviii.-xxix.— Ext. of MS. fr. 1116 are given, pp. 201–212, et of the version called after Thiébault de Cépoy, pp. 213–226.

  The Fr. MS. 1116, late 7367, has been reproduced by photography (including the binding, a poor modern one in calf!) at Karlsruhe this year (1902) under the title:

  — Le divisiment dou monde de Messer March Pol de Venece.— Die Handschrift Fonds Français No. 1116 der National bibliothek zu Paris photographisch aufgenommen auf der Gr. Hof-und Landes bibliothek zu Karlsruhe von Dr. A. Steiner.— Karlsruhe. Hof–Buchdruckerei Friedrich Gutsch. 1902, in4.

  Has No. Impr. 5210 in the National Library, Paris.

• 52.— 7. Marco Polo. (Charton, Voy. anc. et mod., II. pp. 252–440.)

  Modernized Text of the Geographical Society.— Notes, Bibliography, etc.

• 53.— 8.

  — Le livre || de || Marco Polo || citoyen de Venise || Conseiller privé et commissaire impérial || de || Khoubilaï-Khaân; || rédigé en français sous sa dictée en 1298 || par Rusticien de Pise; || Publié pour la première fois d’après trois manuscrits inédits de la Bibliothèque impériale de Paris, || présentant la rédaction primitive du Livre, revue par Marc Pol lui-même et donnée par lui, en 1307, à Thiébault de Cépoy, || accompagnée des variantes, de l’explication des mots hors d’usage, et de Commentaires géographiques et historiques, || tirés des écrivains orientaux, principalement chinois, avec une Carte générale de l’Asie; || par || M.G. Pauthier. ||— Paris || Librairie de Firmin Didot. . . . M. DCCC. LXV, 2 parts, large 8vo.

  — Polo (Marco) par G. Pauthier.

  Extrait de la Nouvelle Biographie générale, publiée par MM. Firmin Didot frères et fils. Ppt. 8vo, on 2 col.

  — A Memoir of Marco Polo, the Venetian Traveller to Tartary and China [translated from the French of M.G. Pauthier]. (Chin. & Jap. Rep., Sept. & Oct. 1863.)

• 54.— 9. Les Récits de Marco Polo citoyen de Venise sur l’histoire, les moeurs et les coutumes des Mongols, sur l’empire Chinois et ses merveilles; sur Gengis–Khan et ses hauts faits; sur le Vieux de la Montagne; le Dieu des idolâtres, etc. Texte original français du XIII’e siècle rajeuni et annoté par Henri Bellenger. Paris, Maurice Dreyfous, s.d., 18mo, pp. iv-280.

• 55.— 10. Le Livre de Marco Polo — Facsimile d’un manuscrit du XIV’e siècle conservé à la Bibliothèque royale de Stockholm, 4to, 4 ff. n. c. for the title ut supra and preface + 100 ff. n. c. [200 pages] of text facsimile.

  We read on the verso of the title-page: “Photolithographie par l’Institut lithographique de l’Etat–Major — Typographie par l’Imprimerie centrale — Stockholm, 1882.”— We learn from the preface by the celebrated A.E. Nordenskiöld, that 200 copies, two of which on parchment have been printed. In the preface is printed a letter, Paris, 22nd Nov. 1881, written by M. Léopold Delisle, which shows that the Stockholm MS. belonged to the library of the King of France, Charles V. (who had five copies of Polo’s Book) and had No. 317 in the Inventory of 1411; it belonged to the Louvre, to Solier of Honfleur, to Paul Petau when it was purchased by King Christina.

  — Le “Livre de Marco Polo.” Facsimile d’un manuscrit du XIV’e siècle conservé à la Bibliothèque royale de Stockholm. Stockholm, 1882, in4 (Signed: LÉOPOLD DELISLE)— Nogent-le-Rotrou, imp. de Daupeley–Gouverneur. [1882], pp. 8vo.

  Extrait de la Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes. t. xliii. 1882.—

  This is a reprint of an article by M. Delisle in the Bib. de l’Éc. des Chartes, xliii. 1882, pp. 226–235.— see also p. 434.— M.G. Raynaud has also given a notice of this edition of Stockholm in Romania, xl. 1882, pp. 429–430, and Sir Henry Yule, in The Athenaeum, 17th June, 1882, pp. 765–766.

  — Il libro di Marco Polo facsimile d’un manoscritto del XIV secolo. Nota del prof. G. Pennesi. (Bol. Soc. Geog. Ital., 1882, pp. 949–950.)

  — See MURET, Ernest, pp. 547 and 582.

  G.— English Editions.

• 56.— 1. The most noble || and famous trauels of || Marcus Paulus, one || of the nobilitie of the state of || Venice, into the East partes || of the world, as Armenia, Per||sia, Arabia, Tartary, with || many other kingdoms || and Prouinces. || No lesse pleasant, than || profitable, as appeareth || by the Table, or Contents || of this Booke. || Most necessary for all sortes || of Persons, and especially || for Trauellers. || Translated into English. || At London, || Printed by Ralph Nevvbery, || Anno. 1579. Small 4to. pp.[28]+167+[1]. Sig. *-**** A— X.

  Pp. 167 without the 28 first pages which contain the title (2 p.), the epistle of the translator, Iohn Frampton (2 p.). Maister Rothorigo to the Reader: An introduction into Cosmographie (10 pages), the Table of the Chapters (6 p.). The Prologue (8 p.).

• 57.— 2. The first Booke of Marcvs Pavlvs Venetvs, or of Master Marco Polo, a Gentleman of Venice, his Voyages. (Purchas, His Pilgrimes. London, Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, . . . 1625, Lib. I. Ch. 1111. pp. 65–108.)

  After Ramusio.

• 58.— 3. The Travels of Marco Polo, or Mark Paul, the Venetian, into Tartary, in 1272. (Astley’s Collection of Travels, IV. pp. 580–619).

  French translation in l’Hist. Gén. des Voyages.

• 59.— 4. Harris’s Navigantium atque Itin. Bib., ed. of 1715 and of 1744.

• 60.— 5. The curious and remarkable Voyages and Travels of Marco Polo, a Gentleman of Venice who in the Middle of the thirteenth Century passed through a great part of Asia, all the Dominions of the Tartars, and returned Home by Sea through the Islands of the East Indies. [Taken chiefly from the accurate Edition of Ramusio, compared with an original Manuscript in His Prussian Majesty’s Library and with most of the Translations hitherto published.] (Pinkerton, VII. p. 101.)

• 61.— 6. Marco Polo. Travels into China and the East, from 1260 to 1295. Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels. . . . Edinburgh, 1811–1824, vol. i.)

• 62.— 7. The || Travels || of || Marco Polo, || a Venetian, || in the Thirteenth Century: || being a || Description, by that early traveller, || of || remarkable places and things, || in || the || Eastern Parts of the World. || Translated from the Italian, || with || Notes, || by William Marsden, F.R.S., &c. || With a Map. || London: || M. DCCC. XVIII., large 4to, pp. lxxx.-782 + 1 f. n. ch. for the er.

  The first 80 pages are devoted to a remarkable Introduction, in which are treated of various subjects enumerated on p. 782: Life of Marco Polo; General View of the Work; Choice of Text for Translation; Original Language, etc. There is an index, pp. 757–781.

• 63.— 8. The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian. The Translation of Marsden revised, with a Selection of his Notes. Edited by Thomas Wright, Esq. M.A., etc. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854, small 8vo, pp. xxviii.-508.

• 64.— 9. The Travels of Marco Polo . . . By Hugh Murray . . . Edinburgh: Oliver amp; Boyd . . . M. DCCC. XLIV, 8vo, pp. 368.

  Vol. 38 of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, published at 5s.

  — Second Edition, . . . Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd . . . M DCCC XLIV, 8vo.

  — The Travels of Marco Polo, greatly amended and enlarged from valuable early manuscripts recently published by the French Society of Geography, and in Italy by Count Baldelli Boni. With copious Notes, illustrating the routes and observations of the author and comparing them with those of more recent Travellers. By Hugh Murray, F.R.S.E. Two Maps and a Vignette. New York, Harper, 1845, 12mo, pp. vi-326.

  — 4th ed., Edinburg, s.a.

• 65.— 10. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. Newly Translated and edited, with Notes. By Colonel Henry Yule, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers (Bengal), Hon. Fellow of the Geographical Society of Italy. In two volumes. With Maps, and other Illustrations. London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1871, 2 vol. 8vo.

• 66.— 11. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. Newly translated and edited, with Notes, Maps, and other Illustrations. By Colonel Henry Yule, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers (Bengal) . . . In two volumes. Second edition, revised. With the addition of new matter and many new illustrations. London: John Murray, 1875, 2 vols. 8vo.

  — Marco Polo e il suo Libro del Colonnello Henry Yule, C.B. Por Guglielmo Berchet. (Archivio Veneto, II. 1871, pp. 124–174, 259–350.)

  Contains a Translation of the Introductory Essay, etc.

  — The Story of Marco Polo. With Illustrations. London, John Murray, 1898, 8vo, pp. xiv.-247.

  Preface by Noah Brooks. “In his comments . . . the author has made use of the erudite notes of Colonel Henry Yule. . . . ”

• 67.— 12. Voyages and Travels of Marco Polo.— London, Cassell, 1886, 16mo, pp. 192.

  The Preface is signed H. M[osley].— From Pinkerton.— Popular Edition. Cassell’s National Library.

  H.— Dutch Editions

  — Die nieuvve vveerelt der Landtschappen ende Eylanden . . . Gheprint Thantwerpen . . . Anno. M.D. LXIII. folio.

  Marcus Pauwels, f. xxvii.

• 68.— 1. MARKUS PAULUS VENETUS || Reisen, || En || Beschryving || Der || oostersche || Lantschappen; || Daar in hy naaukeuriglijk veel Landen en Steden, die hy zelf ten meestendeel || bereist en bezichtigt heeft, beschrijft, de zeden en gewoonten van die Vol-||ken, tot aan die tijt onbekent, ten toon stelt, en d’opkoomst van de Heer-||schappy der Tartaren, en hun verövering van verscheide landen in Sina, || met ander namen genoemt, bekent maakt. || Beneffens de || Historie || Der || oostersche Lantschappen, || Door HAITHON van ARMENIEN te zamen gestelt. || Beide nieuwelijks door J.H. GLAZEMAKER vertaalt. || Hier is noch by gevoegt De Reizen van Nicolaas Venetus, en || Jeronymus van St. Steven naar d’oostersche Landen, en || naar d’Indien. Door P.P. vertaalt. || Als ook een Verhaal van de verovering van ‘t Eilant Formosa, door || de Sinezen; door J.V.K.B. vertaalt. || Met Kopere Platen verciert. || t’ Amsterdam, || Voor Abraham Wolfgang, Boekverkoper, aan d’Opgang van de || Beurs, by de Beurstooren, in ‘t Geloof, 1664. 4to, 6 ff. not numbered for the tit., prf. + pp. 99 + 4 ff. not numbered for the tab. etc. of Marco Polo.

  The other works have a special pagination.

  I.— TchÈQue Edition.

• 69.— 1. Million Marka Pavlova. Fragment of the tchèque translation of the Berlin Museum. Prague, No. 3 F. 26, XVth cent., by an Anonym, Moravian? (Výbor z Literatury ceské II. v Praze, 1868.)

• 70.— 2. Pohledy do Velkorise mongolské v cas nejmocnejsího rozkvetu jejího za Kublaje kána. Na základe cestopisu Marka Polova podává A.J. Vrtatko. (Výnato z Casopisu Musea král. Ceského 1873.) V Praze, J. Otto, 1873, 8vo, pp. 71.

  M.A. Jarosl. Vrtatko has translated the whole of Marco Polo, but he has published only this fragment.

  J.— Russian Editions.

• 71.— 1. [Russian: Marko Polo puteshestvie v’ 1286 godu po Tatarii i drugim’ stranam’ vostoka venetsianskago dvoryanina Marko Polo, proevannago Millionerom’,— Tri chasti.]— St. Petersburg, 1873, 8vo, pp. 250.

• 72.— 2. [Russian: I.P. Minaev’.— Puteshestvie Marko Polo perevod’ starofrantsueskago teksta.— Izdanie Imp. Rysskago Geog. Ouschestva pod’ redaktsiei d’istvitel’nago chlena V.V. Bartol’da.]— St. Petersburg, 1902, 8vo, pp. xxix + 1 f. + pp. 355.

  Vol. xxvi. of the Zapiski of the Russian Geog. Society, translated from the French.

  K.— Irish Edition.

• 73.— The Gaelic Abridgment of the Book of Ser Marco Polo. By Whitley Stokes. (Zeit. f. Celtische Philologie, 1 Bd., 2 & 3 Hft. Halle a. S. 1896–7, 8vo, pp. 245–273, 362–438.)

  Book of Lismore.— See our Introduction, I. p. 103, note.

  L.— Various Editions.

• 74.— 1. The edition of Marco Polo in preparation by Klaproth is announced in the part of June, 1824 of the Journal Asiatique pp. 380–381.

  “M. Klaproth vient de terminer son travail sur Marco Polo, qui l’a occupé depuis plusieurs années. . . .

  “La nouvelle édition de Marco Polo, que notre confrère prépare, contiendra l’italien de Ramusio, complété, et des Notes explicatives en bas des pages. Elle sera accompagnée d’une Carte représentant les pays visités ou décrits par le célèbre Vénitien.”

  — See also on this edition of Klaproth, the Bulletin des Sciences historiques, antiquités etc., juin 1824, art. 580; the Jour. des Savans, juillet 1824, pp. 446–447, and the Jour. As. of 1824–1828: Recherches sur les Ports de Gampou. Klaproth’s materials for this edition were sold after his death Fr.200 to the bookseller Duprat; See Cat. des Livres composant la Bib. de M.K., II’e Partie, No. 292.

• 75.— 2. Marco Polos Beskrivelse af det ostlige asiatiske Hoiland, forklaret ved C.V. Rimestad. Forste Afdeling, indeholdende Indiedningen og Ost–Turkestan. Indbydelseskrift til den aarlige offentlige Examen i Borgerdydskolen i Kjobenhavn i Juli 1841. Kjobenhavn, Trykt hos Bianco Luno. 1841, 8vo, pp. 80.

• 76.— 3. Marco Polo’s Resa i Asien.

  Small ppt. square 12mo, pp. 16; on p. 16 at foot: Stockholm, tryckt hos P.G. Berg, 1859.

  On the title-page a cut illustrating a traveller in a chariot drawn by elephants.

iii.— Titles of sundry books and papers which treat of Marco Polo and his book.

• 1. SALVIATI, Cavalier LIONARDO. Degli Avvertimenti delta Lingua sopra’l Decamerone. In Venezia, 1584.

  Has some brief remarks on Texts of Polo, and on references to him or his story in Villani and Boccaccio.

• 2. MARTINI, MARTINO. Novus Atlas Sinensis. Amstelodami, 1655.

  The Maps are from Chinese sources, and are surprisingly good. The Descriptions, also from Chinese works but interspersed with information of Martini’s own, have, in their completeness, never been superseded. This estimable Jesuit often refers to Polo with affectionate zeal, identifying his localities, and justifying his descriptions. The edition quoted in this book forms a part of Blaeu’s Great Atlas (1663). It was also reprinted in Thévenot’s Collection.

• 3. KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS. China Illustrata. Amstelodami, 1667.

  He also often refers to Polo, but chiefly in borrowing from Martini.

• 4. MAGAILLANS, GABRIEL DE (properly Magalhaens). Nouvelle Description de la Chine, contenant la description des Particularités les plus considérables de ce Grand Empire. Paris, 1688, 4to.

  Contains many excellent elucidations of Polo’s work.

• 5. CORONELLI, VINCENZO. Atlante Veneto. Venezia, 1690.

  Has some remarks on Polo, and the identity of Cathay and Cambaluc with China and Peking.

• 6. MURATORI, LUD. ANT. Perfetta Poesia, con note di SALVINI. Venezia, 1724.

  In vol. ii. p. 117, Salvini makes some remarks on the language in which he supposes Polo to have composed his Book.

• 7. FOSCARINI, MARCO. Delia Letteratura Veneziana. Padova, 1752. Vol. i. 414 seqq.

• 8. FOSCARINI, MARCO. Frammento inedito di, intorno at Viaggiatori Veneziani; accompanied by Remarks on Bürck’s German edition of Marco Polo, by TOMMASO GAR (late Director of the Venice Archives). In Archivio Storico Italiano, Append. tom. iv. p. 89 seqq. [See Bibliography, supra 8–8, p. 557.]

• 9. ZENO, APOSTOLO, Annotazioni sopra la Biblioteca dell’ Eloquenza Italiana di Giusto Fontanini. Venezia, 1753.

  See Marsden’s Introduction, passim.

• 10. TIRABOSCHI, GIROLAMO. Storia della Letteratura Italiana. Modena, 1772–1783.

  There is a disquisition on Polo, with some judicious remarks (iv. pp. 68–73).

• 11. TOALDO, GIUSEPPE. Saggi di Studj Veneti nell’ Astronomia e nella Marina. Ven. 1782.

  This work, which I have not seen, is stated to contain some remarks on Polo’s Book. The author had intended to write a Commentary thereon, and had collected books and copies of MSS. with this view, and read an article on the subject before the Academy of Padua, but did not live to fulfil his intention (d. 1797).

  [See Cicogna, II. p. 386; vi. p. 855.]

• 12. LESSING. Marco Polo, aus einer Handschrift ergänzt, und aus einer andern sehr zu verbessern: (Zur Geschichte und Litteratur . . . von G.E. Lessing. II. Beytrag. Braunschweig, 1773, 8vo, pp. 259–298.)

• 13. FORSTER, J. REINHOLD. H. des Découvertes et des Voyages faits dans le Nord. French Version. Paris, 1788.

• 14. SPRENGEL, MATHIAS CHRISTIAN. Geschichte der wichtigsten geographischen Entdeckungen &c. 2nd Ed. Halle, 1792.

  This book, which is a marvel for the quantity of interesting matter which it contains in small space, has much about Polo.

• 15. ZURLA, Abate PLACIDO. Life of Polo, in Collezione di Vite e Ritratti d’Illustri Italiani. Padova, 1816.

  This book is said to have procured a Cardinal’s Hat for the author. It is a respectable book, and Zurla’s exertions in behalf of the credit of his countrymen are greatly to be commended, though the reward seems inappropriate.

• 16. ——, ——. Dissertazioni di Marco Polo e degli altri Viaggiatori Veneziani, &c. Venezia, 1818–19, 4to.

• 17. 18, 19. QUARTERLY REVIEW, vol. xxi. (1819), contains an Article on Marsden’s Edition, written by John Barrow, Esq.; that for July, 1868, contains another on Marco Polo and his Recent Editors, written by the present Editor; and that for Jan. 1872, one on the First Edition of this work, by R.H. Major, Esq.

• 20. ASIA, Hist. Account of Discovery and Travels in. By HUGH MURRAY Edinburgh, 1820.

• 21. STEIN, C.G.D. Rede des Herrn Professor Dr. Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein. (Gesprochen den 29sten September, 1819.) Ueber den Venetianer Marco Polo. Pages 8–19 of Einladung zur Gedächtniszfeier der Wohlthater des Berlinisch-Köllnischen Gymnasiums . . . von dem Direktor Johann Joachim Bellermann. Sm. 8vo, s.d. [1821]

• 22. KLAPROTH, JULIUS. A variety of most interesting articles in the Journal Asiatique (see sér. I. tom. iv., tom. ix.; sér. II. tom. i. tom. xi. etc.), and in his Mémoires Relatifs à l’Asie. Paris, 1824.

  Klaproth speaks more than once as if he had a complete Commentary on Marco Polo prepared or in preparation (e.g., see J. As., sér. i. tom. iv. p. 380). But the examination of his papers after his death produced little or nothing of this kind.—[Cf. supra, p. 573.]

• 23. CICOGNA, EMMANUELE ANTONIO. Delle Iscrizioni Veneziane, Raccolte ed Illustrate. Venezia, 1824–1843.

  Contains valuable notices regarding the Polo family, especially in vol. ii.

• 24. RÉMUSAT, JEAN PIERRE ABEL. Mélanges Asiatiques. Paris, 1825. Nouveaux Mélanges As. Paris, 1829.

  The latter contains (i. 381 seqq.) an article on Marsden’s Marco Polo, and one (p. 397 seqq.) upon Zurla’s Book.

• 25. ANTOLOGIA, edited by VIEUSSIEUX. Tom. xix. B. pp. 92–124. Firenze, 1825.

  A review of the publication of the old French Text by the Soc. de Géographie.

• 26. ANNALI UNIVERSALI DI STATISTICA. Vol. xvi. p. 286. Milano. 1828. Article by F. CUSTODI.

• 27. WALCKENAER, Baron C. Vies de plusieurs Personnages Célèbres des temps anciens et modernes. Laon, 1830, 2 vol. 8vo.

  This contains a life of Marco Polo, vol. ii. pp. 1–34.

• 28. ST. JOHN, JAMES AUGUSTUS. Lives of Celebrated Travellers. London (circa 1831).

  Contains a life of Marco Polo, which I regret not to have seen.

• 29. COOLEY, W.D. Hist. of Maritime and Inland Discovery. London, (circa 1831).

  This excellent work contains a good chapter on Marco Polo.

• 30. RITTER, CARL. Die Erdkunde von Asien. Berlin, 1832, seqq.

  This great work abounds with judicious comments on Polo’s Geography, most of which have been embodied in Bürck’s edition.

• 31. DELECLUZE, M. Article on Marco Polo in the Revue des Deux Mondes for 1st July, 1832. Vol. vii. 8vo, pp. 24.

• 32. PAULIN PARIS. Papers of much value on the MSS. of Marco Polo, etc., in Bulletin de la Soc. de Géographie for 1833, tom. xix. pp. 23–31; as well as in Journal Asiatique, sér. II. tom. xii. pp. 244–54; L’Institut, Journal des Sciences, &c., Sect. II tom. xvi. Jan, 1851.

• 33. MALTE-BRUN. Précis de la Géog. Universelle, 4th Ed. par HUOT. Paris, 1836.

  Vol. i. (pp. 551 seqq.) contains a section on Polo, neither good nor correct.

• 34. DE MONTÉMONT, ALBERT. Bibliothèque Universelle des voyages.

  In vol. xxxi. pp. 33–51 there is a Notice of Marco Polo.

• 35. PALGRAVE, Sir FRANCIS. The Merchant and the Friar. London, 1837.

  The Merchant is Marco Polo, who is supposed to visit England, after his return from the East, and to become acquainted with the Friar Roger Bacon. The book consists chiefly of their conversations on many subjects.

  It does not affect the merits of this interesting book that Bacon is believed to have died in 1292, some years before Marco’s return from the East.

• 36. D’AVEZAC, M. Remarks in his most valuable Notice sur les Anciens Voyages de Tartarie, &c., in the Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires publié par la Société de Géographie, tom. iv. pp. 407 seqq. Paris,1839. Also article in the Bulletin de la Soc. de Géog., &c., for August, 1841; and in Journal Asiat. sér. II. tom. xvi. p. 117.

• 37. PARAVEY, Chev. DE. Article in Journ. Asiatique, sér. II. tom. xvi. 1841, p. 101.

• 38. HAMMER-PURGSTALL, in Bull. de la Soc. de Géog., tom. iii. No. 21, p. 45.

• 39. QUATREMÈRE, ÉTIENNE. His translations and other works on Oriental subjects abound in valuable indirect illustrations of M. Polo; but in Notices et Extraits des MSS. de la Bibliothèque du Rio, tom. xvi. Pt. i. pp. 281–286, Paris, 1843, there are some excellent remarks both on the work itself and on Marsden’s Edition of it.

• 40. MACFARLANE, CHARLESE Romance of Travel. London, C. Knight. 1846.

  A good deal of intelligent talk on Marco Polo.

• 41. MEYER, ERNST H.F. Geschichte der Botanik. Königsberg, 1854–57.

  In vol. iv, there is a special chapter on Marco Polo’s notices of plants.

• 42. THOMAS, Professor G.M. Zu Marco Polo, aus einem Cod. ital. Monacensis in the Sitzungsberichten der Münchner Akademie, 4th March, 1862, pp. 261–270

• 43. KHANIKOFF, NICOLAS DE. Notice sur le Livre de Marco Polo, édité et commenté par M.G. Pauthier. Paris, 1866. Extracted from the Journal Asiatique. I have frequently quoted this with advantage, and sometimes have ventured to dissent from it.

• 44. CAHIER, Père. Criticism of Pauthier’s Marco Polo, and reply by G. Pauthier, in Études Littéraires et Religieuses of 1866 and 1867. Paris.

• 45. BARTHÉLEMY ST. HILAIRE. A series of articles on Marco Polo in the Journal des Savants of January–May, 1867, chiefly consisting of a reproduction of Pauthier’s views and deductions.

• 46. DE GUBERNATIS, Prof. ANGELO. Memoria intorno ai Viaggiatori italiani nelle Indie Orientali, dal secolo XIII. a tutto il XVI. Firenze, 1867.

• 47. BIANCONI, Prof. GIUSEPPE. Degli Scritti di Marco Polo e dell’ Uccello RUC da lui menzionato. 2 parts large 8vo. Bologna, 1862 and 1868, pp. 64, 40.

  A meritorious essay, containing good remarks on the comparison of different Texts.

• 48. KINGSLEY, HENRY. Tales of Old Travel renarrated. London, 1869.

  This begins with Marco Polo. The work has gone through several editions, but I do not know whether the author had corrected some rather eccentric geography and history that were presented in the first. Mr. Kingsley is the author of another story about Marco Polo in a Magazine, but I cannot recover the reference.

• 49. NOTES AND QUERIES for CHINA AND JAPAN. This was published from January, 1867, to November, 1870, at Hong–Kong under able editorship, and contained some valuable notes connected with Marco Polo’s chapters on China.

• 50. GHIKA, Princess ELENA (Dora d’Istria). Marco Polo, Il Cristoforo Colombo dell’ Asia. Trieste, 1869, 8vo, pp. 39.

• 51. BUFFA, Prof. GASPARE. Marco Polo, Orazione commemorativa, Letta nel R. Liceo Cristoforo Colombo il 24 marzo 1872. Genova, 8vo, pp. 18.

• 52. EDINBURGH REVIEW, January, 1872, pp. 1–36. A review of the first edition of the present work, acknowledged by SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, and full of Oriental knowledge. (See also No. 19 supra.)

• 53. OCEAN HIGHWAYS, for December, 1872, p. 285. An interesting letter on Marco Polo’s notices of Persia, by Major OLIVER ST. JOHN, R.E.

• 54. RICHTHOFEN, Baron F. VON. Das Land und die Stadt Caindu von Marco Polo, a valuable paper in the Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin. No. 1 of 1874, p. 33.

• 55. BUSHELL, Dr. S.W., Physician to H.M.‘s Legation at Peking. Notes of a Journey outside the Great Wall of China, embracing an account of the first modern visit to the site of Kúblái’s Palace at Shang-tu. Appeared in J.R.G.S. vol. xliv. An abstract was published in the Proc. R.G.S. xviii., 1874, pp. 149–168.

• 56. PHILLIPS, GEORGE, of H.M.‘s Consular Service in China.— Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta in Fookien (Chinese Recorder, III., 1870–1871, pp. 12, 44, 71, 87, 125); Notices of Southern Mangi, with Remarks by COLONEL HENRY YULE, C.B. (from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society); Notices of Southern Mangi [Abridgment] (Proc. R. Geog. Soc., XVIII., 1873–1874, pp. 168–173); Zaitun Researches (Chin. Rec., V. pp. 327–339; VI. 31–42; VII. pp. 330–338, 404–418; VIII. 117–124); Changchow, the Capital of Fuhkien in Mongol Times, read before the Society, 19th November, 1888 (Jour. C.B.R.A.S., XXIII. N.S., n’o 1, 1888, pp. 23–30); The Identity of Marco Polo’s Zaitun with Chang-chau, with a sketch-map of Marco–Polo’s route (T’oung Pao, I., Oct. 1890, pp. 218–238); Two Mediaeval Fuh-kien Trading Ports, Chüan-chow and Chang-chow.— Part I. Chang-chow (T’oung-Pao, VI. No. 5, déc. 1895, pp. 449/463).— Part II. Chüan-Chow (Ibid., VII. No. 3, Juillet 1896 pp. 223/240, with 3 photog.).

• 57. WHEELER, J. TALBOYS. History of India (vol. iii. pp. 385–393) contains a résumé of, and running comment on, Marco Polo’s notices of India.

  Mr. Wheeler’s book says; “His travels appear to have been written at Comorin, the most southerly point of India” (p. 385). The words that I have put in Italics are evidently a misprint, though it is not clear how to correct them.

• 58. DE SKATTSCHKOFF, CONSTANTIN. Le Vénitien Marco Polo, et les services qu’il a rendus en faisant connaître l’Asie. Read before the Imp. Geog. Society at St. Petersburg, 6/18 October, 1865; translated by M. Emile Durand in the Journ. Asiatique, sér. VII. tom. iv. pp. 122–158 (September, 1874).

  The Author expresses his conviction that Marco Polo had described a number of localities after Chinese written authorities; for in the old Chinese descriptions of India and other transmarine countries are found precisely the same pieces of information, neither more nor fewer, that are given by Marco Polo. Though proof of this would not be proof of the writer’s deduction that Marco Polo was acquainted with the Chinese language, it would be very interesting in itself, and would explain some points to which we have alluded (e.g., in reference to the frankincense plant, p. 396, and to the confusion between Madagascar and Makdashau, p. 413). And Mr. G. Phillips has urged something of the same kind. But M. de Skattschkoff adduces no proof at all; and for the rest his Essay is full of inaccuracy.

• 59. CANTÙ, CESARE. Italiani Illustri Ritratti, 1873, vol. i. p. 147.

• 60. MARSH, JOHN B. Stories of Venice and the Venetians . . . illustrated by C. Berjeau. London, 1873, 8vo, pp. vii.-418.

  Chaps, VI., VII. and VIII. are devoted to Marco Polo.

• 61. KINGSMILL, THOS. W. Notes on the Topography of some of the Localities in Manji, or Southern China mentioned by Marco Polo. (Notes and Queries on China and Japan, vol. i. pp. 52–54.)

  —— Notes on Marco Polo’s Route from Khoten to China. (Chin. Recorder, VII. 1876, pp. 338–343.)

• 62. PAQUIER, J.B. Itinéraire de Marco Polo à travers la région du Pamir au XIII’e siècle. (Bull. Soc. Géog., 1876, août, pp. 113–128.)

• 63. PALLADIUS, ARCHIMANDRITE. Elucidations of Marco Polo’s Travels in North–China, drawn from Chinese Sources. (Jour. N.C.Br.R.As.Soc., x. 1876, pp. 1–54.)

  Translated into English by A. Wylie and E. Bretschneider. The Russian text has just been published (T. xxxviii. 1902, of the Isviestiya) by the Imp. Russian Geog. Society.

  Sir Henry Yule wrote in the Addenda of the second edition:

  “And I learn from a kind Russian correspondent, that an early number of the J. N. China Branch R. Asiatic Society will contain a more important paper, viz.: Remarks on Marco Polo’s Travels to the North of China, derived from Chinese Sources; by the ARCHIMANDRITE PALLADIUS. This celebrated traveller and scholar says (as I am informed): ‘I have followed up the indications of Marco Polo from Lobnor to Shangdu, and in part to Peking. . . . It would seem that I have been so fortunate as to clear up the points that remained obscure to Yule.’ I deeply regret that my book cannot now profit by these promised remarks. I am not, however, without hope, that in the present edition, with its Appendices, some at least of the Venerable Traveller’s identifications may have been anticipated.”

  The greater part of the notes of my late friend, the Archimandrite Palladius Katharov, have been incorporated in the present edition of Marco Polo.— H.C.

• 64. JIRECEK, JOSEF. Básen o pobití Tataruv a “Million” Marka Pavlova, (Casopis Musea království ceského, 1877, pp. 103–119).

• 65. GEBAUER, J. Ein Beitrag zur Erklärung der Königinhofer Handschrift. (J. Gebauer, in Archiv für Slavische Philologie, Berlin, 1877, ii. pp. 143–155.)

• 66. ZANETTI, V. Quattro Documenti inediti dell’ Archivio degli Esposti in Venezia (Marco Polo e la sua Famiglia — Marin Falier). Por V. Zanetti. (Archivio Veneto, xvi. 1878, pp. 95–110.)

  See Calendar, Nos. 6, 19, and 20 for the three Documents relating to the Polo Family.

  — Marco Polo e la sua famiglia. (Ibid., xvii. 1879, pp. 359–362.) Letters of Comm. G. Berchet and Yule regarding these documents.

• 67. HOUTUM-SCHINDLER, Gen. Notes on Marco Polo’s Itinerary in Southern Persia (Chapters xvi. to xxi., Col. Yule’s Translation). (Jour. R. As. Soc., N.S., vol. xiii. Art. XX. Oct. 1881, pp. 490–497.)

  —— Marco Polo’s Camadi. (Ibid., Jan. 1898, pp. 43–46.)

• 68. THOMSON, J.T. Marco Polo’s Six Kingdoms or Cities in Java Minor, identified in translations from the ancient Malay Annals, by J.T.T., Commissioner of Crown Lands, Otago, 1875. (Proc.R.G.Soc., XX. 1875–1876, pp. 215–224.)

  Translation from the “Salafat al Salatin perturan segala rajaraja,” or Malay Annals.

• 69. K.C. AMREIN. Marco Polo: Oeffentlicher Vortrag, gehalten in der Geographisch — Kommerziellen Gesellschaft in St. Gallen. Zurich, 1879, 8vo.

• 70. VIDAL-LABLACHE, PAUL. Bibliothèque des Écoles et des Families.— Marco Polo, son temps et ses voyages. Paris, 1880, 8vo, pp. 192.

  There is a second edition.

• 71. G.M. URBANI DE GHELTOF. III. Congresso Geografico Internazionale in Venezia.— La Collezione del Doge Marin Faliero e i tesori di Marco Polo. Venezia, 1881, 8vo, pp. 8.

  From the Bulletino di Arti, industrie e curiosità veneziane III. pp. 98–103.— See Int. p. 79.

• 72. SEGUSO, L. La Casa dei Milioni o labitazione di Marco Polo. (Venezia e il Congresso, 1881.)

• 73. CORDIER, HENRI. Maison de Marco Polo [à Venise.] (Revue de l’Extrême-Orient, i. No. 1, p. 157); Statue de Marco Polo. (Revue de l’Extrême-Orient, i. No. 1, pp. 156–157.)

• 74. Illustrazione Italiana, No. 38, Sept. 18, 1881.

• 75. YULE, Sir HENRY. Marco Polo. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1885, 9th ed., xix. pp. 404–409.)

• 76. SCHUMANN, Dr. K. Marco Polo, ein Weltreisender des XIII. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, 1885. 8vo, pp. 32.

  Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenschaftlicher Vorträge, herausgegeben von Rud. Virchow und Fr. von Holtzendorff. XX. Serie. Heft 460.

• 77. Marco Polo. (Blackwood’s Mag., clxii. Sept. 1887, pp. 373–386.) (Rep. in Littell’s Living Age, Boston, CLXXV., p. 195.)

• 78. EDKINS, JOSEPH. Kan Fu. (China Review, xv. pp. 310–331.)

• 79. OLIPHANT, Mrs.— The Makers of Venice. London, 1887, 8vo. Part II.— Chap. i. The Travellers: Niccolo, Matteo, and Marco Polo, pp. 134–157.

• 80. DUCLAU, S.— La Science populaire — Marco Polo, sa Vie et ses Voyages. Par S. Duclau. Limoges, Eugène Ardant, s.d. [1889], 8vo, pp. 192.

• 81. PARKER, E.H. Charchan. (China Review, xviii. p. 261); Hunting Lodges (Ibid., p. 261); Barscol. (Ibid.); Life Guards (p. 262); Canfu or Canton (Ibid., xiv. pp. 358–359); Kaunchis (Ibid., p. 359); Polo (Ibid., xv., p. 249); Marco Polo’s Transliterations (Ibid., xvi., p. 125); Canfu (Ibid., p. 189).

• 82. SCHALLER, M.— Marco Polo und die Texte seiner “Reisen”.— Programm der Kgl. Studien — Anstalt Burghausen für das Studienjahr 1889–90 von Michael Schaller, Kgl. Studienlehzer f.n. Sprachen. Burghausen, Russy, 8vo, pp. 57.

• 83. SEVERTZOW, Dr. NICOLAS. Etudes de Géographie historique sur les anciens itinéraires à travers le Pamir, Ptolémée, Hiouen–Thsang, Song-yuen, Marco Polo. (Bul. Soc. Géog., 1890, pp. 417–467, 553–610.)

  (Marco Polo, pp. 583 seqq.)

• 84. AMENT, W.S. Marco Polo in Cambaluc: A Comparison of foreign and native Accounts. (Journ. Peking Orient. Soc., III. No. 2, 1892, pp. 97–122.)

• 85. COLLINGRIDGE, GEORGE. The Early Cartography of Japan. By George Collingridge. (Geographical Journal, May, 1894, pp. 403–409.)— Japan or Java? An Answer to Mr. George Collingridge’s Article on “The Early Cartography of Japan,” by F.G. Kramp. Overgedrukt uit het “Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, Jaargang 1894.” Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1894, 8vo, pp. 14. The Early Cartography of Japan. By H. Yule Oldham. (Geographical Journal, Sept. 1894, pp. 276–279.)

• 86. HIRTH, FRIED. Ueber den Schiffsverkehr von Kinsay zu Marco Polo’s Zeit. (T’oung Pao, Dec. 1894, pp. 386–390.)

• 87. DRAPEYRON, LUDOVIC.— Le Retour de Marco Polo en 1295. Cathay et Sypangu. (Revue de Géographie, Juillet, 1895, pp. 3–8.)

• 88. CORDIER, HENRI. Centenaire de Marco Polo. Paris, 1896, 8vo.

  A Lecture with a Bibliography which is the basis of the list of this edition of Marco Polo.

• 89. MANLY.— Marco Polo and the Squire’s Tale. By John Matthews Manly. (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, vol. xi. 1896, pp. 349–362.)

  Cf. our Introduction, p. 128.

• 90. SUEZ, IUMING C. Marco Polo. (St. John’s Echo, Shanghaï, Nov. 1899.)

• 91. NORDENSKIÖLD, A.E.— Om det inflytande Marco Polos reseberättelse utöfvat på Gastaldis kartor öfver Asien. (ur Ymer, Tidskrift utgifven af Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi, Årg. 1899, H. 1, pp. 33 to 42).

  —— The Influence of the “Travels of Marco Polo” on Jacobo Gastaldi’s Map of Asia. (Geog. Journal, April, 1899, pp. 396 to 406.)

  See Introduction, p. 137.

• 92. CHAIX, PAUL. Marco Polo. (Le Globe, Soc. Géog. Genève, fév.-avril, 1900, pp. 84–94.)

• 93. LE STRANGE, GUY. The Cities of Kirman in the time of Hamd–Allah Mustawfi and Marco Polo. (J. R. As. Soc., April, 1901, pp. 281–290.)

• 94. MURET, ERNEST. Un fragment de Marco Polo. Paris, 1901, 8vo., pp. 8.

  From Romania, tom. xxx. See p. 547, App. F., 65.

• 95. GREAT EXPLORERS.— Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, Mungo Park, Sir John Franklin, David Livingstone, Christopher Columbus, etc., etc. Thomas Nelson, London, 1902, 8vo, pp. 224.

  Marco Polo, pp. 7–21.