N.B.—Such MSS. as are not enclosed in Cartouches are hypothetical, or
not known now to exist, but are recognized or demonstrable as links in
the series. Nos. refer to List of MSS. in App. F. Printed Editions are
in small capitals.
I.—Principal Editions.
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. (See p. 555.)
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. (See p. 558.)
1496. Edition in Venetian Dialect, printed by J. B. 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 Alemao (see vol.
ii. of this work, p. 295). Stated to have been translated from the MS.
presented by Venice to Prince Pedro (vol. i. p. 135.)
1503. Spanish version by Rodrigo de Santaella. Sevilla.
1529. Ditto. Reprinted at Logroño.
1532. Novus Orbis—Basileæ. (See vol. i. p. 95.)
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. p. 96.)
1735. Bergeron’s interesting collection of Mediæval 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. p. 83.) 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. Charton.
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.[1]
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 sunnẽ. der gleychẽ vor nicht
meer gehört 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 kũnigen 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 dẽ
auffgang pisz zu dem nydergang der sũnẽ Seliglich.
Disz hat gedruckt Fricz Creũszner zu Nurm̃berg Nach cristi ‖ gepurdt
Tausent vierhundert vñ im siben vñ sibenczigtē 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 François 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 vns beschreibt die
grossen wunder der welt die er selber gese [foot] hen hat. Von dem
auffgang biss zu dem nidergang der [left] sunnen | der geleich vor nit
meer gehört seind.
Recto f. 2, begins:
Hie hept sich an das buch des edlẽ 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 selbigẽ gesehen
vñ durch faren hat von dem auffgang biss zu dem nÿdergang d’sunnen
Seligklich. Diss hat gedruckt Anthonius Sorg zu Augspurg Nach xp̃i
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 Tartariæ: ‖ 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 dn̄i nri ihū xp̄i filij dei viui
et veri amen. Incipit plogus ī libro dn̄i marci pauli de venecijs de
cōsuetudinibus et cōdicionibus orientaliū regionū.
Then the declaration of “Frater franciscus pepur. de bononia frm̃
p̄dicatorū” who translated the work from the vulgar language into Latin.
End p. 147: Explicit liber dn̄i 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. |
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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 Arbolí 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 Terram Sanctam: M. Paul. Venet. de regionibus
orientalibus. Liber rariss. Zwollis, 1483, in–4.
“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. Egli 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 plurimùm
tum suppleti ‖ tum illustrati. ‖ Accedit, propter cognationem
materiae, ‖ Haithoni Armeni historia ‖ orientalis: quae &
de Tartaris ‖ inscribitur; ‖ Itemque ‖ Andreae Mülleri,
Greiffenhagii, ‖ de Chataja, cujus praedictorum Auctorum uter-‖
que mentionem facit, Disquisitio; inq́ue 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.
Andreæ 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 Itinerarius, Ubi Loca recensentur, quae auctor
pertransiit, & Distantiae Locorum, quas ipse annotavit, 2 ff. not numbered.
Index quartus Glossarius, Estq́ue vocum exoticarum, quas Autor ipse
interpretatus est, 1 half p.
Emendanda in Marco Paulo Veneto, quaeq́; ad hunc pertinent: aut ad eadem
Addenda, 1 f. not numbered.
Haithoni Armeni ‖ Historia ori-‖entalis: ‖ Qvae eadem & De Tartaris ‖
inscribitur. ‖ Anno ‖ CIↃ. IↃC. 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, deq́ue Sinis memorabilia ‖ fuerunt, atque etiam nunc
sunt, compendiosè ‖ enarrantur. ‖—Ecclesiastae I. v. 15. ‖: לתסטת תסות לא יוכל
‖ 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 mōdo Im ‖ presso in Venetia per zoanne Baptista ‖ da Sessa
Milanese del M. ccccxcvi. ‖ adi. xiii. del mese de Iunio regnā
‖ 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 l, 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, pe 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: Tractato delle più maraueliose cose e delle
piu notabile: che si ri ‖ trouano nelle ꝑte del mōdo. 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 nouamē‖te delle marauigliose co=‖se del mondo:
comin=‖ciādo da Leuante a ponente fin al me‖zo di. El mondo nouo
& isole & lo=‖chi incogniti & siluestri abondā‖ti e sterili &
doue abōda loro ‖ & largento & Zoglie & p̄ie ‖ tre p̄ciose &
animali & ‖ mōstri spaurosi & do‖ue manzano car=‖ne humana e ‖
i gesti & vi=‖uer & co=‖stumi ‖ de quelli paesi cosa certamēte
molto cu=‖riosa 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. ‖ Dñi 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 ✕ 8 = 56 ff. + h ✕ 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, in-8, auxquels est jointe la carte
géographique qui fait partie de l’ouvrage de Zurla. Il y en a aussi des
exemplaires in-8, 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 mare 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 Il
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 Ludovico 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 huũ genoues das ditas terras. ¶ Cõ priuilegio del Rey
nosso senhor q̃ nenhuũ faça a impres ‖ sam deste liuro. nẽ ho
venda em todollos se’ regnos 
senho=‖rios sem liçẽça 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 2d f.: Começase a epistola sobre a tralladaça do
liuro de ‖ Marco paulo. Feita per Valẽtym 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. daquẽ 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 gẽtes ‖ 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 hũa carta de
huũ ‖ genoues mercador. que todos escreuerõ das Indias. a seruiço ‖ de
d’s. auisamẽto daquelles q̃ agora vam pera as ditas Indias ‖ Aos quaes
rogo peço humilmente q̃ benignamẽte queirã emẽ‖dar correger ho que
menos acharẽ no escreuer. s. nos vocabul’ ‖ das prouincias. regnos.
çidades. ylhas. outras cousas muytas ‖ nõ menos em a distãcia das
legoas de hũa terra p̱a 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 ‖ q̃ vido enlas partes oriẽtales. cõuie ‖ ne saber
enlas Indias. Armenia. A‖rabia. Persia Tartaria. E d’l pode ‖
rio d’l grã Cā y otros reyes. Cō otro ‖ tratado de micer Pogio
florētino q̄ ‖ 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, ēla 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 q̃l cuēta de
todas las tierras prouīcias ; islas delas Indias. Arabia ‖ Persia
Armenia y Tartaria y d’las cosas marauillosas que enellas se ha‖llan
assi mesmo el grā 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 ꝑtidas oriẽtales ; de otros ‖
testigos dinos d’ fe como por el parece fiel mēte trasladado ‖ en
lengua castellana por el reuerēdo señor maestre Rodri‖go de santa ella
| Arcediano de reyna y canonigo ēla sā ‖ ta yglesia de Seuilla. El q̄l
se ēprimio por Lā [?] alao ‖ polono y Jacome Crōberger alemano ēla muy
‖ noble y muy leal ciudad d’Seuilla. Año de ‖ mil ; q’ niẽtos y tres a.
xxviij. dias d’mayo.”
43.—2. Libro del famoso Marco ‖ Polo veneciano delas cosas
maraui‖llosas q̄ 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 q̃ fue traduzida fielmẽte de lengua veneciana en ‖ castellano
por el reuerẽdo 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 in-fol., 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 General 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 à ‖ l’image sainct Iehan
l’Euangeliste. ‖ 1556. ‖ Avec Privilege dv Roy, ‖ 4to, 10 prel.
f. not numbered + 123 ff. numbered + 1 f. not numbered.
Sommaire dv Privilege du Roy (verso of title).—Epistle “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 tãt fameux
& renommé tenoit ‖ l’Empire de Constãtinople, assavoir ‖ en l’an de
l’incarnation de nostre ‖ Saulueur mil deux cens soixante & ‖ neuf,
deux nobles & prudẽs citoyẽs ‖ 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 Mœurs & 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 Bibliotheque 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], ppt. 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 xie, xiie, & xiiie siècles publiés par Henri
Michelant & Gaston Raynaud. Genève, Fick, 1882, in-8.
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
Landesbibliothek zu Karlsruhe von Dr. A. Steiner.—Karlsruhe.
Hof-Buchdruckerei Friedrich Gutsch. 1902, in-4.
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. 忽必烈樞密副使博羅本書
—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
mœurs 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 XIIIe 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 XIVe 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 XIVe
siècle conservé à la Bibliothèque royale de Stockholm. Stockholm,
1882, in-4 (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
Athenæum, 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. iiii. 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 & 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 české, II. v Praze, 1868.)
70.—2. Pohledy do Velkorise mongolské v čas nejmocnejšího rozkvetu
jejího za Kublaje kána. Na základe čestopisu Marka Polova podává
A. J. Vrtatko. (Výnato z Časopisu Musea král. Českého 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. Марко Поло путешествіе въ 1286 году по Татаріи и
другимъ странамь востока венеціанскаго дворянина Марко Поло,
прозваннаго Милліонеромъ.—Три части.—St. Petersburg, 1873, 8vo, pp. 250.
72.—2. И. П. Минаевъ.—Путешествіе Марко Поло переводъ старофранцузскаго
текста.—Изданіе Имп. Русскаго Геог. Общества подъ редакціей
дѣйствительнаго члена В. В. Бартольда.—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., IIe Partie, No. 292.
75.—2. Marco Polos Beskrivelse af det ostlige asiatiske Hoiland,
forklaret ved C. V. Rimestad. Forste Afdeling, indeholdende
Indledningen 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 della 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. Della Letteratura Veneziana.
Padova, 1752. Vol. i. 414 seqq.
8. Foscarini, Marco. Frammento inedito di, intorno ai
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 Studi 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 ergănzt,
und aus einer andern sehr zu verbessern: (Zur Geschichte und
Literatur ... 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 Wohlthăter 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, 4iéme 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
Roi, 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, Charles. 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 has 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., no 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 Mediæval 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 XIIIe 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. Jireček, Josef. Báseň o pobití Tataruv a “Million” Marka
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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.
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Art. XX. Oct. 1881, pp. 490–497.)
—————————— Marco Polo’s Camadi. (Ibid., Jan. 1898, pp. 43–46.)
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69. K. C. Amrein. Marco Polo: Oeffentlicher Vortrag, gehalten in
der Geographisch-Kommerziellen Gesellschaft in St. Gallen.
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70. Vidal-Lablache, Paul. Bibliothèque des Écoles et des
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There is a second edition.
71. G. M. Urbani de Gheltof. III. Congresso Geografico
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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 l’abitazione di Marco
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74. Illustrazione Italiana, No. 38, Sept. 18, 1881.
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(Rep. in Littell’s Living Age, Boston, CLXXV., p. 195.)
78. Edkins, Joseph. Kan Fu. (China Review, xv. pp.
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The Livre Tournois of the period may be taken, on the mean of
five valuations cited in a footnote at p. 87 of vol. i., as equal in
modern silver value to ... 18·04 francs.
Say English money ... 14s. 3·8d.
The Livre Parisis was worth one-fourth more than the
Tournois,[1] and therefore equivalent in silver value to ...
22·55 francs.
Say English money ... 17s. 10·8d.
(Gold being then to silver in relative value about 12:1 instead of
about 15:1 as now, one-fourth has to be added to the values based on
silver in equations with the gold coin of the period, and one-fifth to
be deducted in values based on gold value. By oversight, in vol. i. p.
87, I took 16:1 as the present gold value, and so exaggerated the value
of the livre Tournois as compared with gold.)
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determines the valuation of these livres, in the reign of St.
Lewis, by taking a mean between a value calculated on the present value
of silver, and a value calculated on the present value of gold,[2] and
his result is:
Livre Tournois = 20·26 francs.
Livre Parisis = 25·33 „
Though there is something arbitrary in this mode of valuation, it is,
perhaps, on the whole the best; and its result is extremely handy for
the memory (as somebody has pointed out) for we thus have
One Livre Tournois = One Napoleon.
„ „ Parisis = One Sovereign.
Venetian Money.
The Mark of Silver all over Europe may be taken fairly at
2l. 4s. of our money in modern value; the Venetian mark
being a fraction more, and the marks of England, Germany and France
fractions less.[3]
The Venice Gold Ducat or Zecchin, first coined in
accordance with a Law of 31st October 1283, was, in our gold
value, worth ... 11·82 francs.[4]
or English ... 9s. 4·284d.
The Zecchin when first coined was fixed as equivalent to 18
grossi, and on this calculation the Grosso should be
a little less than 5d. sterling.[5] But from what follows it
looks as if there must have been another grosso, perhaps only
of account, which was only ¾ of the former, therefore equivalent to
3¾d. only. This would be a clue to difficulties which I do not
find dealt with by anybody in a precise or thorough manner; but I can
find no evidence for it.
Accounts were kept at Venice not in ducats and grossi, but in
Lire, of which there were several denominations, viz.:
1. Lira dei Grossi, called in Latin Documents Libra
denariorum Venetorum grosorum.[6] Like every Lira or
Pound, this consisted of 20 soldi, and each soldo of
12 denari or deniers.[7] In this case the Lira was
equivalent to 10 golden ducats; and its Denier, as the name implies,
was the Grosso. The Grosso therefore here was ¹⁄₂₄₀ of 10 ducats
or ¹⁄₂₄ of a ducat, instead of ¹⁄₁₈.
2. Lira ai Grossi (L. den. Ven. ad grossos). This
by decree of 2nd June, 1285, went two to the ducat. In fact it is
the soldo of the preceding Lira, and as such the
Grosso was, as we have just seen, its denier; which is perhaps
the reason of the name.
3. Lira dei Piccoli (L. den. Ven. parvulorum). The ducat
is alleged to have been at first equal to three of these Lire
(Romanin, I. 321); but the calculations of Marino Sanudo
(1300–1320) in the Secreta Fidelium Crucis show that he reckons
the Ducat equivalent to 3·2 lire of piccoli.[8]
In estimating these Lire in modern English money, on the basis
of their relation to the ducat, we must reduce the apparent value by ⅕.
We then have:
1. Lira dei Grossi equivalent to nearly 3l. 15s.
0d. (therefore exceeding by nearly 10s. the value of the
Pound sterling of the period, or Lira di Sterlini, as it was
called in the appropriate Italian phrase).[9]
2. Lira ai Grossi ... 3s. 9d.
3. Lira dei Piccoli ... 2s. 4d.
The Tornese or Tornesel at Venice was, according
to Romanin (III. 343) = 4 Venice deniers: and if these are the
deniers of the Lira ai Grossi, the coin would be worth a
little less than ¾d., and nearly the equivalent of the denier
Tournois, from which it took its name.[10]
The term Bezant is used by Polo always (I believe) as it is
by Joinville, by Marino Sanudo, and by Pegolotti, for the Egyptian
gold dínár, the intrinsic value of which varied somewhat, but can
scarcely be taken at less than 10s. 6d. or 11s.
(See Cathay, pp. 440–441; and see also J. As. sér. VI.
tom. xi. pp. 506–507.) The exchange of Venice money for the Bezant or
Dinar in the Levant varied a good deal (as is shown by examples in the
passage in Cathay just cited), but is always in these examples a
large fraction (⅙ up to ⅓) more than the Zecchin. Hence, when Joinville
gives the equation of St. Lewis’s ransom as 1,000,000 bezants
or 500,000 livres, I should have supposed these to be livres
Parisis rather than Tournois, as M. de Wailly prefers.
There were a variety of coins of lower value in the Levant called
Bezants,[11] but these do not occur in our Book.
The Venice Saggio, a weight for precious substances was ⅙ of an
ounce, corresponding to the weight of the Roman gold solidus,
from which was originally derived the Arab Misḳál. And Polo
appears to use saggio habitually as the equivalent of
Misḳál. His pois or peso, applied to gold
and silver, seems to have the same sense, and is indeed a literal
translation of Misḳál. (See vol. ii. p. 41.)
For measures Polo uses the palm rather than the foot. I do not
find a value of the Venice palm, but over Italy that measure varies
from 9½ inches to something over 10. The Genoa Palm is stated at 9·725
inches.
Jal (Archéologie Nav. I. 271) cites the following Table of
Old Venice Measures of Length.
| 4 fingers |
= |
1 handbreadth. |
| 4 handbreadths |
= |
1 foot. |
| 5 feet |
= |
1 pace. |
| 1000 paces |
= |
1 mile. |
| 4 miles |
= |
1 league. |
ad vlterio // res trāsmarinas
domini Jo//hannis de Mandeville mili//tis Jncipit feliciter.—F.
4. recto: Jncipit Itinerarius a ter//ra Anglie in ptes
Jherosoli =//mitanas. 
