nterpolations.
The volume contains also Odoric, A. Ca' da Mosto, V. da Gama, Columbus,
etc., being of the beginning of the 16th century.
Paper, 4to. Belonged to Morelli.
*_Lazari_.
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VENICE
Museo Civico, _Coll. Cicogna_, No. 2389, now 2408.
Latin.
+Paper, large 4to; belonged to Gian-Giuseppe Liruti, and after to E.A.
Cicogna; contains also Odoric, published by G. Venni in 1761, and other
matter.
This is the MS. noticed at vol. i. _Int., Ramusio's Italian
Version_, p. 102, as containing several passages found in no
other text except Ramusio's Italian. Written in 1401 by the Notary
Philip, son of Pietro Muleto of Fodan (or Fogan?)[4] in Friuli, whilst
studying Rhetoric at Padua.
*[_H. Cordier_, _Odoric_, pp. xci.-xcii.]
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VENICE
Library of Count Dona delle Rose
Italian, with a Venetian tinge.
It begins: "Quegli che desiderano d'entendere le maraviglose chose del
mondo de l'Asia de Armenia persia e tartaria dell indie et diverse parti
del mondo legano questo libro et intenderano quello chel nobelle
citadino Veneciano Miss. Marcho Polo," etc., and end: "Explicit liber
Millionis civis Veneciarum. Expleto ad CCCCXLVI mensis setembris die
vigesimo-octavo."
These extracts indicate that it belongs to the same type as the Sloane
MS. No. 6, in our list.
Note by Comm. Nicolo Barozzi, Director of the Museo Civico at Venice.
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FERRARA
Public Library, No. 35n (336, N.B. 5)
Italian, with a Venetian tinge.
_Incipit prologus Libri qui vulgari hominum dictur "El Milione."_
This looks as if it were _not_ Pipino's.
_Note by the Abate S.B. Mondino_.
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MILAN
Ambrosian Library, M. 526, Sc. D.
Latin.
Fragments extracted from Pipino's version inserted at end of 2nd part of
the _Cronica Libri Ymaginis Mundi_ of Fr. Jacopo d'Acqui. (Vol. i.
_Int., Captivity of M. Polo_.)
Paper, folio. 14th century.
_Lazari_.
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MODENA
Este Library
Latin.
Pipino's Parchment of 14th century. Muratori speaks of this.
(_Script._ VII.) as "_fortassis autographum._"
_Muratoni;_ and _Prof. Bianconi, Degli Scritta di Marco Polo, etc._
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FLORENCE
Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Nationale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV. c. 104
Italian (Tuscan).
The Crusca MS., of which an account has been given, vol. i. _Int.,
Original Language of the Book_.
Paper, folio, early in 14th century.
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FLORENCE
Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Nazionale), C
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