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British Museum Library
Egerton, 2176
French.

Translated from the Latin version of Pipino.

Parchment, 103 folio, 4to. Illuminated Capital Letters. Purchased of R.
Townley Nordman, 22nd June, 1872.

Yule, 2nd ed., II p. 517.

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OXFORD.
Bodleian, No. 264.
French.

This is bound up with the celebrated Alexander MS. It is a beautiful
work, embellished with thirty-eight miniatures, some of which are
exquisite, e.g., the Frontispiece, a large piece of about 9-1/2
in., forming a sort of condensed view of the Field of Travel; a large
part of it occupied by VENICE, of which our cut (_The Piazzetta_)
in vol. i., p. _18, Introduction_, is an extract. Another fine work
(f. 220) represents the three Polos presenting the Pope's Letter to the
Khan. The embroidered hands on the Khan's robe form an inscription, in
which is legible "_Johannes me facit_." This Mr. Coxe attributes
to John of Cologne, a known artist of the 14th century. He considers
the MS. to be of about 1380. The Alexander is dated 1338, and its
illuminations as finished in 1344 by Jehan de Gruse. [See supra,
p. 528, _note_.]

A comparison of a good many readings, as well as of the point where the
version breaks off, and the words: "_Explicii la Livre nomme du Gerunt
Gann de la Graunt Cite de Cambaluc, Dieux ayda Amien_," indicate that
this MS. is of the same type as Pauthier's C (No. 20 in this List) and
the Bern. MS. (No 63).

The name given in the colophon as above has caused the work to be
entered in the old Printed Catalogue under a wrong title. Hence the MS.,
as one of Marco Polo, has been overlooked.

[_P. Meyer, Romania_, XI., 1882, pp. 290-301. _E. W.B. Nicholson_;
Personal.--H. C]

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OXFORD
Merton College, No. 312
Latin.

Pipino's; followed by Hayton, and Palladius _de Agricultura_.

_Coxe, Catal. Codd. MSS. Oxen_. Pt. I., p. 123.

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CAMBRIDGE
University Library, D. d. I. 17, No. 12
Latin.

Pipino's.

The same folio contains Jacques de Vitry, Hayton, several works on
Mahommedanism, among others that of William of Tripoli (vol. i. p. 23),
Piers Plowman, etc., etc.

_Catal. of MSS. in Lib. of Camb. University_, I. 22.

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CAMBRIDGE
University Library, D. d. VIII. 7
Latin.

Fragment of _Marci Pauli Veneti Historia Tartarorum_ (probably
Pipino's)

_Catal. of MSS. in Lib. of Camb. University_, I. 22.

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CAMBRIDGE
Gonville and Caus College, N