48 FLORENCE Bib. Palatina (now united to n.a.z.ionale), Cod. 572 Italian.

The language differs slightly from that of the Crusca, and, where I have compared it, is less compressed. Ends with _Rossia_.

Paper, small 4to, 14th century.

Written somewhat roughly in a very old hand. Rustician is _Messer Restazo da Pisa_. The Grand Kaan gives the Polo's a "tovaglia _d'Oro_."

49 LUCCA Bib. governativa, Coll. (Lucchesini, Giacomo), No. 26 (now No. 296) Italian (Ven. dialect).

Corresponds to the corrupt Venice epitome published in 1496. Contains also Odorico.

[Ends:--"_Complito el libro de le cosse mirabile vedute per lo n.o.bile h.o.m.o Messer Marcho Polo gientelomo de Venesia a di 12 de Marzo 1465 per mi Daniele da Verona in sul Ponte de' Berettiari al onore e laude dell' Omnipotente._"

Paper, 4to, 75 ff.

_H. Cordier_, _Odoric_, pp. xcvi.-xcviii.]

_Baldelli-Boni_.

50 SIENA Public Library, c. V 14 Italian.

This is a miscellaneous MS. which, among other things; contains a fragment of Polo, "Qui comicio ellibro di Missere Macho Polo da Vinegia de le cose maniglose che trovo p lo mondo," etc. It calls Rusticiano _Missere Stacio da Pisa_.--N.B.--Baldelli gives a very similar description of a fragment at Sienna, but under press mark A. IV. 8. I a.s.sume that it is the same that I saw.

51 ROME Vatican Library, Cod. 2207, _Ottoboniano_ French.

A fragment, going no further than the chapter on Georgia, and ending thus: "Autre chose ne vous en scay dire parquoi je vous fois fin en ce livre; le nom de notre Seigneur soi benoist et de sa benoiste Mere.

Amen. Loys de Luxembourg."

Parchment, 14 cent.

_Baldelli-Boni_.

52 ROME Vatican Library, No. 2935 Latin.

An old Latin abridgment of Polo, ent.i.tled _De Mirabilibus Mundi_.

The same volume contains a tract, _De Mirabilibus Romae_, to which also Polo's name is given.

Paper, 14th cent.

_Baldelli-Boni_ and _Lazari_.

53 ROME Vatican Library, No. 3153 Latin.

Pipino's. Very neat and clean; apparently of 14th cent.

Parchment.

54 ROME Vatican Library, No. 5260 Latin.

Pipino's. Very clearly and regularly written. Apparently 15th cent.

55 ROME Barberini Library, x.x.xIV. 4 Latin.

A MS. volume, containing Ricold of Monte Croce; Tractatus divisionis et ambitus...o...b..s Terrarum, etc.; Liber de divisione Orbis Terrarum; Libellus de Mirabilibus Urbis Romae; and "_Incipit de Morum et Gentium Varietatibus editus a Marcho Polo Veneto._" It is very cramply written, much compressed, and has no division into books or chapters.

Ends with "_Roscia, provincia maxima._" "_Explicit libellus editus a Dno. Marcho Polo de Venetiis de diversis provinciis et gentibus mundi, et earum ritibus et moribus diversis et artibus._"

Parchment, large thin 4to, 14th cent.

56 ROME Barberini Library, LVIII. 40 Italian (Venetian dial).

This is the fragment spoken of, vol. i. p. 101, note. It is a transcript made apparently in the 17th cent., from a MS. written in 1465.

57 ROME Barberini Library, No. 934 Italian.

I give this on Baldelli's authority. I did not see it on my visit to the Barberini.

_Baldelli-Boni_.

58 ROME Corsini Library, No. 1111 Italian(?).

_Baldelli-Boni_.

59 ROME Chigi Library, M. VI. 140 Italian.