APPENDIX H.-Bibliography of Marco Polo's Book.

I. PRINCIPAL EDITIONS.

I do not intend to attempt a list of all the editions of Polo; a task for which I have no advantages, and which will be found well done in Lazari's Appendix, based on Marsden. But it may be useful to mention the chief Editions, with their dates.

1477. The first Printed Edition is in German. We have given a reduced Facsimile of its Frontispiece at page ciii. "Diss hat gedruckt Fricz Creüssner zu Nurmberg nach cristi gepurdt Tausent vierhundert vnd im siben vnd sibenczigte iar” (Marsden).

1481. A reproduction of the preceding at Augsburg, in the same volume with the History of Duke Leopold and his Son William of Austria.

About 1490. Pipino's Latin; the only printed edition of that version. Without place, date, or printer's name.

1496. Edition in Venetian Dialect, printed by G. B. Sessa.

1500. The preceding reproduced at Brescia (often afterwards in Italy).

1502. Portuguese Version from Pipino, along with the Travels of Nicolo Conti. Printed at Lisbon by Valentym Fernandez, Alemao (see vol. ii. of this work, p. 239). Stated to have been translated from the MS. presented by Venice to Prince Pedro (vol. i. p. cliv).

1520. Spanish version by Rodrigo de Santaella. Sevilla.

1529. Ditto. Reprinted at Logrono.

1532. Novus Orbis-Basileæ (see vol. i. p. cxxi).

1556. French Version from the Novus Orbis.

1559. Ramusio's 2nd volume, containing his version of Polo, of which we have spoken amply.

1579. First English Version, made by John Frampton, according to Marsden, from the Spanish version of Seville or Logrono.

1625. Purchas's Pilgrims, vol. iii. contains a very loose translation from Ramusio. 1664. Dutch Version, from the Novus Orbis. Amsterdam.

1671. Andreas Müller of Greiffenhagen reprints the Latin of the Novus Orbis,

with a collation of readings from the Pipino MS. at Berlin; and with it the book of Hayton, and a disquisition De Chataid. The Editor appears to have been an enthusiast in his subject, but he selected his text very injudiciously (see vol. i. p. cxxi).

1735. Bergeron's interesting collection of Medieval Travels in Asia, published in French at the Hague. The Polo is a translation from Müller, and hence is (as we have already indicated) at 6th hand.

1747. In Astley's Collection, IV. 580, seqq., there is an abstract of Polo's book, with brief notes, which are extremely acute, though written in a vulgar tone, too characteristic of the time.

1818. Marsden's famous English Edition.

1824. The Publication of the most valuable MS. and most genuine form of the text, by the Soc. de Géographie of Paris (see vol. i. p. cix). It also contains the Latin Text (No. 19 in our list of MSS.).

1827. Baldello-Boni published the Crusca MS. (No. 34), and republished the Ramusian Version, with numerous notes and interesting dissertations. The 2 volumes are cumbered with 2 volumes more, containing, as a Preliminary, a History of the Mutual Relations of Europe and Asia, which probably no man ever read. Florence.

1844. Hugh Murray's Edition. It is, like the present one, eclectic as regards the text, but the Editor has taken large liberties with the arrangement of the Book.

1845. Bürck's German Version, Leipzig. It is translated from Ramusio, with copious notes, chiefly derived from Marsden and Ritter. There are some notes at the end added by the late Karl Friedrich Neumann, but as a whole these are disappointing.

1847. Lazari's Italian edition was prepared at the expense of the late Senator L. Pasini, in commemoration of the meeting of the Italian Scientific Congress at Venice in that year, to the members of which it was presented. It is a creditable work, but too hastily got up.

1854. Mr. T. Wright prepared an edition for Bohn's Antiq. Library. The notes are in the main (and professedly) abridged from Marsden's, whose text is generally followed, but with the addition of the historical chapters, and a few other modifications from the Geographic Text.

1854-57. Voyageurs Anciens et Modernes, &c. Par M. Ed. Charton. Paris. An interesting and creditable popular work. Vol. ii. con

tains Marco Polo, with many illustrations, including copies from miniatures in the Livre des Merveilles (App. F, No. 15).

1863. Signor Adolfo Bartoli reprinted the Crusca MS. from the original, making a careful comparison with the Geographic Text. He has prefixed a valuable and accurate Essay on Marco Polo and the Literary History of his Book, by which I have profited.

1865. M. Pauthier's learned edition.

II. TITLES OF SUNDRY BOOKS AND PAPERS WHICH TREAT
OF MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.

1. SALVIATI, Cavalier LIONARDO. Degli Avvertimenti della Lingua sopra 'l Decamerone. In Venezia, 1584.

Has some brief remarks on Texts of Polo, and on references to him or his story in Villani and Boccaccio.

2. MARTINI, MARTINO. Novus Atlas Sinensis. Amstelodami, 1655. The Maps are from Chinese sources, and are surprisingly good. The Descriptions, also from Chinese works but interspersed with information of Martini's own, have, in their completeness, never been superseded. This estimable Jesuit often refers to Polo with affectionate zeal, identifying his localities, and justifying his descriptions. The edition quoted in this book forms a part of Blaeu's Great Atlas (1663). It was also reprinted in Thévenot's Collection.

3. KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS.

China Illustrata. Amstelodami, 1667.

He also often refers to Polo, but chiefly in borrowing from Martini.

4. MAGAILLANS, GABRIEL DE (properly Magalhaens). Nouvelle Description de la Chine, contenant la description des Particularités les plus considerables de ce Grand Empire. Paris, 1688.

Contains many excellent elucidations of Polo's work.

5. CORONELLI, VINCENZO. Atlante Veneto. Venezia, 1690.

Has some remarks on Polo, and the identity of Cathay and Cambaluc with China and Peking.

6. MURATORI, LUD. ANT. Perfetta Poesia, con note di SALVINI. Venezia, 1724.

In vol. ii. p. 117, Salvini makes some remarks on the language in which he supposes Polo to have composed his Book.

7. FOSCARINI, MARCO. Della Letteratura Veneziana. Padova, 1752. Vol. I. 414, seqq.

8.

Frammento inedito di, intorno ai Viaggiatori Veneziani; accompanied by Remarks on Bürck's German edition of Marco Polo, by TOMMASO GAR (now Director of the Venice Archives). In Archivio Storico Italiano, Append. Tom. IV. p. 89, seqq.

9. ZENO, APOSTOLO. Annotazioni sopra la Biblioteca dell'Eloquenza Italiana di Giusto Fontanini. Venezia, 1753.

See Marsden's Introduction, passim.

10. TIRABOSCHI, GIROLAMO.

Modena, 1772-1783.

Storia della Letteratura Italiana.

There is a disquisition on Polo, with some judicious remarks (IV. pp. 68-73).

11. TOALDO, GIUSEPPE. Saggi di Studj Veneti nell' Astronomia e nella Marina. Ven. 1782.

This work, which I have not seen, is stated to contain some remarks on Polo's Book. The author had intended to write a Commentary thereon, and had collected books and copies of MSS. with this view, and read an article on the subject before the Academy of Padua, but did not live to fulfil his intention (d. 1797).

12. FORSTER, J. REINHOLD. H. des Découvertes et des Voyages faits dans le Nord. French Version. Paris, 1788.

13. SPRENGEL, MATHIAS CHRISTIAN.

geographischen Entdeckungen, &c.

Geschichte der wichtigsten 2nd Ed. Halle, 1792.

This book, which is a marvel for the quantity of interesting matter which it contains in small space, has much about Polo.

14. ZURLA, Abate PLACIDO. Dissertazioni di Marco Polo e degli altri Viaggiatori Veneziani, &c. Venezia. 1818-19.

This book is said to have procured a Cardinal's Hat for the author. It is a respectable book, and I dare say the reward has been often worse earned, though it seems inappropriate.

15, 16. QUARTERLY REVIEW, Vol. XXI. (1819), contains an Article on Marsden's Edition, written by John Barrow, Esq.; and that for July, 1868, contains another on Marco Polo and his Recent Editors, written by the present Editor.

17. ASIA, Hist. Account of Discovery and Travels in.

MURRAY. Edinburgh, 1820.

BY HUGH

18. KLAPROTH, JULIUS. A variety of most interesting articles in the Journal Asiatique (see Ser. I. Tom. IV., Tom. IX.; Ser. II. Tom. I., Tom. XI., &c.), and in his Mémoires Relatifs à l'Asie. Paris, 1824.

Klaproth speaks more than once as if he had a complete Commentary on Marco Polo prepared or in preparation (e. g., see J. As., Ser. I. Tom. IV. p. 380). But the examination of his papers after his death produced little or nothing of this kind.

19. CICOGNA, EMMANUELE. Delle Iscrizioni Veneziane, Raccolte ed Illustrate. Venezia, 1824-1843.

Contains valuable notices regarding the Polo Family.

20. RÉMUSAT, JEAN PIERRE ABEL-. Mélanges Asiatiques. Paris, 1825. Nouvelles Mélanges As. Paris, 1829.

The latter contains (I. 381, seqq.) an article on Marsden's Marco Polo, and one (p. 397, seqq.) upon Zurla's Book.

21. ANTOLOGIA, edited by VIEUSSIEUX. Tom. XIX. B. pp. 92-124. Firenze, 1825.

A Review of the publication of the old French Text by the Soc. de Géographie. 22. ANNALI UNIVERSALI DI STATISTICA. Vol. XVI. p. 286. Milano, 1828. Article by F. CUSTODI.

23. WALCKENAER, Baron C. Vies de plusieurs Personnes Celèbres. Laon, 1830.

This contains a Life of Marco Polo, but I have not seen it.

24. ST. JOHN, JAMES AUgustus.

London, (circa 1831.)

Lives of Celebrated Travellers.

Contains a Life of Marco Polo, which I regret not to have seen.

25. COOLEY, W. D. Hist. of Maritime and Inland Discovery. London, (circa 1831).

Contains a good chapter on Marco Polo.

26. RITTER, CARL. Die Erdkunde von Asisn. Berlin, 1832, seqq.

This great work abounds with judicious comments on Polo's geography, most of which have been embodied in Bürck's edition.

27. DELECLUZE, M. Article on Marco Polo in the Revue des Deux Mondes for July, 1832. Vol. VII.

28. PAULIN-PARIS, M. Papers of much value on the MSS. of Marco Polo. &c., in Bulletin de la Soc. de Géographie for 1833, Tom. XIX, pp. 23-31; as well as in Journal Asiatique, Ser. II. Tom. XII. pp. 244-54; L'Institut, Journal des Sciences, &c., 'Sect. II. Tom. XVI. Jan. 1851.

29. MALTE-BRUN. Précis de la Géog. Universelle, 4ième Ed. par HUOT. Paris, 1836.

Vol. I. (p. 551, seqq.) contains a section on Polo, very poor and full of errors.

30. DE MONTEMONT, ALBERT.

Bibliothèque Universelle des Voyages.

In Vol. XXXI. pp. 33-51 there is a Notice of Marco Polo.

31. PALGRAVE, SIR FRANCIS.

1837.

The Merchant and the Friar. London,

The Merchant is Marco Polo, who is supposed to visit England, after his return from the East, and to become acquainted with the Friar Roger Bacon. The book consists chiefly of their conversations on many subjects.

It does not affect the merits of this interesting book that Bacon is believed to have died in 1292, some years before Marco's return from the East.