Volume II Part 84 (1/2)

Yule, 2nd ed., II p. 517.

8 OXFORD.

Bodleian, No. 264.

French.

This is bound up with the celebrated Alexander MS. It is a beautiful work, embellished with thirty-eight miniatures, some of which are exquisite, e.g., the Frontispiece, a large piece of about 9-1/2 in., forming a sort of condensed view of the Field of Travel; a large part of it occupied by VENICE, of which our cut (_The Piazzetta_) in vol. i., p. _18, Introduction_, is an extract. Another fine work (f. 220) represents the three Polos presenting the Pope's Letter to the Khan. The embroidered hands on the Khan's robe form an inscription, in which is legible ”_Johannes me facit_.” This Mr. c.o.xe attributes to John of Cologne, a known artist of the 14th century. He considers the MS. to be of about 1380. The Alexander is dated 1338, and its illuminations as finished in 1344 by Jehan de Gruse. [See supra, p. 528, _note_.]

A comparison of a good many readings, as well as of the point where the version breaks off, and the words: ”_Explicii la Livre nomme du Gerunt Gann de la Graunt Cite de Cambaluc, Dieux ayda Amien_,” indicate that this MS. is of the same type as Pauthier's C (No. 20 in this List) and the Bern. MS. (No 63).

The name given in the colophon as above has caused the work to be entered in the old Printed Catalogue under a wrong t.i.tle. Hence the MS., as one of Marco Polo, has been overlooked.

[_P. Meyer, Romania_, XI., 1882, pp. 290-301. _E. W.B. Nicholson_; Personal.--H. C]

9 OXFORD Merton College, No. 312 Latin.

Pipino's; followed by Hayton, and Palladius _de Agricultura_.

_c.o.xe, Catal. Codd. MSS. Oxen_. Pt. I., p. 123.

10 CAMBRIDGE University Library, D. d. I. 17, No. 12 Latin.

Pipino's.

The same folio contains Jacques de Vitry, Hayton, several works on Mahommedanism, among others that of William of Tripoli (vol. i. p. 23), Piers Plowman, etc., etc.

_Catal. of MSS. in Lib. of Camb. University_, I. 22.

11 CAMBRIDGE University Library, D. d. VIII. 7 Latin.

Fragment of _Marci Pauli Veneti Historia Tartarorum_ (probably Pipino's)

_Catal. of MSS. in Lib. of Camb. University_, I. 22.

12 CAMBRIDGE Gonville and Caus College, No. 162 Latin.

Pipino's; with Odoric, and other works relating to Asia. [_H. Cordier, Odoric_, p. lxviii.]

_Catal. of MSS. of Gonville and Caius Coll. Library, by Ref. J.J. Smith_, 1849.

13 GLASGOW Hunterian Collection, S. 5. 7 Latin.

Pipino's Version, with illuminated initials, in a volume containing Guido Colonna's Hist. destruct. Trojae; De Gestis Alex. Magni; Turpinus de Gestis Caroli Magni; M.P.V.; Oderichus de Mirabilibus Tartariae. Parchment, 4to.