inibus
orientalium regionum [rubric] L [small illuminated initial] Ibrum
prudentis honorabilis ac fidelissimi domini marci.
_Ends_ (33, 3 [f. 253 (259) r'o, lines 8-12): girfalci et herodij qui inde
postmodum ad diuersas prouincias | et regiones deferuntur et cetera.
pp. [blue] Explicit liber domini marci Pauli | de Venecijs de diuisionibus
et consue- | tudinibus orientalium regionum [Pipino's Version].
5. Frater Odoricus Forojuliensis.
6. Iohannis Mandeville, _De Mirabilibus_.
II., p. 533.
GLASGOW, Hunterian Museum, Cent. XIV.[3] No. 458, vellum, 4to. 1. Marci
Pavli Veneti, _De Orientalibus Regionibus_.
_Begins_--after a preface by "Frater Franciscus Pipinus de Bononia"
beginning (I, 1 r'o, lines 1-4): Incipit liber primus domini marci pauli de
venecijs de orien [rubric] | L [gilt historiated initial with gestures
forming a floreated border.] Ibrum prudentis talibus regionibus. Prolo
[last three words rubric] | honorabilis ac fidelissimi domini gus. [last
word rubric] | marci pauli de venetijs de conditio | and ending (i, 2 r'o,
line 3): nostri ihesu christi cunctorum uisibilium et inuisibilium
creatoris, after which comes a list of the chapters, titles and numbers
(the latter rubricated) which concludes (i, 7 r'o, line i): D (small blue
initial with red ornament) e prouincia ruthenorum, xlix.--(i, 7 r'o, lines
2-5): Capitulum primum primi libri. Qualiter et quare dominus | nicholaus
pauli de venetijs, et dominus marchus [rubric] | T [blue and red
illuminated initial with minute spread eagle in centre] Empore quo
transierunt ad partes [last three words rubric] | balduinus princeps
orientales. [last words rubric.]
_Ends_ (14, 1 r'o, lines 26, 27): et diuersas prouincias deferuntur.
Explicit liber domini | marci pauli de venetis de diuisionibus et
consuetudinibus orientalium.
2. Odoric.
II., p. 534.
PARIS, see No. 18--Bibliotheque Nationale Departement des
Manuscrits--Livre des Merveilles, Odoric de Pordenone, Mandeville, Hayton,
etc.--Reproduction des 265 miniatures du Manuscrit francais 2810 de la
Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris, Imprimerie Berthaud freres, 31, rue de
Bellefond, 2 vol. in 8.
Marco Polo, Planches, 1-84.
II., p. 539.
ANTWERP, Museum Plantin-Moretus. Exhibited in Room III., No. 61:
_Extraits du Livre de Marco Polo de Venise_ et d'un livre sur l'origine de
quelques villes belges.
132 leaves; 185 x 270 millimeters, XVth Century. Adorned initials,
alternately blue and red. Hea
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