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_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_.
38 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_.
39 MODENA Este Library Latin.
Pipino's Parchment of 14th century. Muratori speaks of this.
(_Script._ VII.) as "_forta.s.sis autographum._"
_Muratoni;_ and _Prof. Bianconi, Degli Scritta di Marco Polo, etc._
40 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.
41 FLORENCE Bib. Magliabecchiana (now n.a.z.ionale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV. c. 73 Itailian.
Many liberties taken with the text, and much abridged and disarranged.
Thus, after the Prologue it proceeds: "_Al nome di Dio io Marcho Polo Veneziano racconter tutte le maravigliose chose ch'io trovai e vidi_, etc. etc." It ends the chapter on Russia with the following impertinence: "_E se volete sapere piu innanzi dimandatene un altro ch'io Marcho Polo non cercai piu avanti._" The Khalif is called _Largaliffe_; Reobarles, _Reubarbe_, with a marginal note in an old hand, "_Reubarbe_ citta di Persia, donde viene il reubarbero herba medicinale." Completed by Dolfo Spini, 16th July, 1425. Paper.
Belonged to the Strozzi Collection.
42 FLORENCE Bib. Magliabecchiana (now n.a.z.ionale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV., c. 61 Italian.
This corresponds to the _Pucci_ MS. noted below (No. 47). It contains the colophon quoted at vol. i. _Int., Some Estimate of Polo and his Book_, p. 115, _note_.
Paper, folio, 1392, 100 ff. of which the first 40 contain _Polo_.
Not well written.
Ex. Bibl. Gaddiana.
*_Baldelli-Boni_.
43 FLORENCE Bib. Magliabecchiana (now Naxionale), Cl. XIII., Plut. IV., c. 136 Italian.
Both beginning and end are missing. Slightly different from the Crusca.
14th century.
*_Baldelli-Boni_.
44 FLORENCE Riccardian Library Italian.
Ends with chapter on Russia. Followed by an extract of Mandevile and a valuable coll. of geographical doc.u.ments of 15th century and beginning of 16th.
Paper 4to, 16th century.
45 FLORENCE Riccardian Library Latin.
Pipino's; but reaching only to Bk. III. ch. 31.
Paper, 14th century.
46 FLORENCE Riccardian Library, No. 1924.
Italian (Ven. dialect).
Partial and defective transcript under the t.i.tle of _Itinerario di Levante_.
_G. Uzielli, Note_.
47 FLORENCE Library of Pucci family Italian.
See remarks at vol. i. _Int., Various Types of the Text_. Completed 20th Nov. 1391.
