33. Cynocephali.

34. "

35. Idolaters of Little Java.

36. Pearl Divers.

37. Shrine of St. Thomas.

38. The Six Kings, subject to Abyssinia.

Part of the Frontispiece is engraved in vol. i. of the present work; the whole of the Frontispiece representing the Piazzetta reduced has been poorly reproduced in Mrs. Oliphant's _The Makers of Venice_. London, 1887, p. 134.

APPENDIX F.--List of MSS. of Marco Polo's Book so far as they are known.[3]

The MSS. marked thus '*' are spoken of after Personal Inspection by the Editor.

NO.

LOCALITIES.

INDICATIONS.

LANGUAGE.

DESCRIPTION OF MSS.

AUTHORITIES.

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

1 British Museum Library Harleian MSS., No. 5115 Latin.

Pipino's Version; with the work of Hayton the Armenian; Parchment; written about A.D. 1400, in a careful hand.--152 ff.--folio.

2 British Museum Library Arundel, XIII., Plut. 163 c.

Latin.

Pipino's; followed by Odoric in same hand, but more carelessly written.

Parchment. [4to; 51 fol.,14th century.--_H. Cordier, Odoric de Pordenone_, p. lxix.].

3 British Museum Library Bibl. Reg. XIV., c. 13.--Plut. 12 f.

Latin.

Pipino's. A well-written folio [311 ff.] on parchment, containing _Ranulf of Chester; Praefationes Historiographum; Gyraldus Camb. de Conq. Hyberniae; Libellus de Mirab. Sanctae Terrae; Odoric; Rubruquis; Polo; Verses of Master Michael of Cornwall_; etc.--[_H. Cordier, Odoric_, pp. lxviii-lxix.].

4 British Museum Library Bib. Reg. XIX., D.I.

French.

[Contains eight works: _Le livre d'Alexandre_; Jehan le Venelais, la _Vengeance d'Alexandre_; Marc Pol; Odoric; Ascelin, _Mission chez les Tartares_; _le Directoire_; Primat, _Chronique des regnes de Louis IX.

et de Philippe III.; Extraits de la Bible_; Translation of Jean de Vignay. (See _H. Cordier, Odoric_, pp. cv.-cvi.; 14th century.)].

Paul Meyer, Doc. ms. de l'ancienne litt. de la France, 1871, pp. 69-80

5 British Museum Library Additional MSS., No. 19, 952 Plut. cxcii. B.

Latin.

Pipino's

Paper, small 4to.--111 ff.

Appended, f. 85 et seqq., is a notice of Mahommed and the Koran: _Incipit Noticia de Machometo et de Libro Legis Sarracenorum_, etc.

Appears to be the work of William of Tripoli. (See vol. i. p. 23.).

Purchased of D. Henry Wolff, 12th August, 1854.

6 British Museum Library Sloane MSS., No. 251 Italian dialect.

Paper, small fol. 39 ff. A good deal abridged, and in a desperately difficult handwriting; but notable as being the only MS. besides the Geog. Text which contains the war of Toctai and Nogai at the end of the Book. It does not, however, contain the majority of the historical chapters forming our Book IV.

At the f. 39 _v._, is "_Esplizzit Liber Milionis Ziuis Veneziani Questo libro scrissi Saluador Paxuti(?) del=1457 a viazo di Baruti_ [Patron Misser Cabual Volanesso, chapit. Misser Polo Barbarigo]." (The latter words [in part.--H.C.] from Marsden; being to me illegible).

7 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.