ADDITIONAL CORRIGENDA. VOL. I. Pp. x, xi, for Messire in the oblique cases, throughout, Monseignour should be read. Therefore, page x, line 6 from top, for "oncles Messire Marc" read "oncles Monseignour Marc;" line 12, for "contes Messire Marc" read "contes Monseignour Marc;" page xi, line 18 from top, for "à Messire Marc" read "à Monseignour Marc": line 6 from foot, for "Messire Nicolas et Messire Mafé" read Monseignour Nicolas et Monseignour Mafé." VOL. II. P. 310, in footnote, for "Tostativ." read Tostati"; p. 534, lines 29-33 from top, for "calculation... thorough manner." read "calculation the Grosso should be a little less than 5d. sterling But from what follows it looks as if there must have been another grosso, perhaps only of account, which was only of the former, therefore equivalent to 31d. only. This would be a clue to difficulties which I do not find dealt with by anybody in a precise or thorough manner; but I can find no evidence for it." RAMUSIO'S STATEMENTS .. § I. Obscurities, &c. 2. Ramusio his earliest Biographer; his Account II. SKETCH OF THE STATE OF THE EAST AT THE TIME OF THE 9. State of the Levant. 10. The various Mongol Sovereignties in III. THE POLO FAMILY. PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE TRAVEL- 8 13 19. § 13. Alleged origin of the Polos. 14. Claims to Nobility. 15. The Elder Marco Polo. 16. Nicolo and Maffeo Polo commence their Travels. 17. Their intercourse with Kublai Kaan. 18. Their return home, and Marco's appearance on the scene. Second Journey of the Polo Brothers, accompanied by Marco. 20. Marco's Employment by Kublai Kaan; and his Journeys. 21. Circumstances of the departure of the Polos from the Kaan's Court. 22. They pass by Persia to Venice. Their relations there. IV. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE MANSION OF THE POLO § 23. Probable period of their establishment at S. Giovanni Grisostomo. 24. Relics of the Casa Polo in the Corte Sabbionera. 24a. Recent corroboration as to traditional site of the Casa Polo. § 25. Arrangement of the Rowers in Medieval Galleys; a separate Oar VI. THE JEALOUSIES AND NAVAL WARS OF VENICE AND GENOA. LAMBA DORIA'S EXPEDITION TO THE ADRIATIC; BATTLE OF CURZOLA; AND IMPRISONMENT OF MARCO § 31. Growing Jealousies and Outbreaks between the Republics. 32. Battle in Bay of Ayas in 1294. 33. Lamba Doria's Expedition to the Adriatic. 34. The Fleets come in sight of each other at Curzola. 35. The Venetians defeated, and Marco Polo a Prisoner. 36. Marco Polo in Prison dictates his Book to Rusticiano of Pisa. Release of Venetian Prisoners. 37. Grounds on which the story of Marco Polo's capture at Curzola VII. RUSTICIANO OR RUSTICHELLO OF PISA, MARCO POLO'S FELLOW-PRISONER AT GENOA, THE SCRIBE WHO WROTE § 38. Rusticiano, perhaps a Prisoner from Meloria. 39. A Person known from other Sources. 40. Character of his Romance § 43. Death of Marco's Father before 1300. Will of his Brother Maffeo. 44. Documentary Notices of Polo at this time. The Sobriquet of Milione. 45. Polo's relations with Thibault de Cepoy. 46. His Marriage, and his Daughters. Marco as a Merchant. 47. § 50. General Statement of what the Book contains. 51. Language of the original Work. 52. Old French Text of the Société de Géographie. 53. Conclusive proof that the Old French Text is the source of all the others. 54. Greatly diffused employment 78 X. VARIOUS TYPES OF TEXT OF MARCO POLO'S BOOK $ 55. Four Principal Types of Text. First, that of the Geographic or § 66. Grounds of Polo's Pre-eminence among Medieval Travellers. 67. $75. How far was there diffusion of his Book in his own day? 76. Contemporary References to Polo. T. de Cepoy; Pipino; Jacopo d'Acqui; Giov. Villani. 77. Pietro d'Abano; Jean le Long of $ 79. Tardy operation, and causes thereof. 8o. General characteristics of Medieval Cosmography. 81. Roger Bacon as a Geographer. 82. Arab Geography. 83. Marino Sanudo the Elder. 84. The Catalan Map of 1375, the most complete medieval embodiment of Polo's Geography. 85. Fra Mauro's Map. Confusions in Cartography of the 16th Century from the endeavour to combine new and old information. 86. Gradual disappearance of Polo's HOW THE TWO BROTHERS POLO SET FORTH FROM CON- STANTINOPLE TO TRAVERSE THE WORLD NOTES.-I. Chronology. 2. "The Great Sea." The Port of Soldaia. II. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS WENT ON BEYOND SOLDAIA NOTES.-I. Site and Ruins of Sarai. (See App. L. 2.) 2. City of Bolghar. 3. Alau Lord of the Levant (i.e., Hulaku). 4. Ucaca III. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS, AFTER CROSSING A Desert, CAME TO THE CITY OF BOCARA, AND FELL IN WITH IV. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS TOOK THE ENVOYS' COUNSEL AND WENT TO THE COURT OF THE GREAT KAAN NOTES.-I. The Great Kaan's Letter. 2. The Seven Arts. 3. Re- ligious Indifference of the Mongol Princes. NOTES.-I. Names of the deceased Pope and of the Legate. 2. Negro- X.-HOW THE TWO BROTHERS AGAIN DEPARTED FROM VENICE, ON THEIR WAY BACK TO THE GREAT KAAN, 20 NOTES.-I. William of Tripoli. 2. Powers conceded to Missionary Friars. 3. Bundukdar and his Invasion of Armenia; his cha- ACCOMPANIED BY MARK, TRAVELLED TO THE COURT NOTE.-The City of Kemenfu, Summer Residence of Kublai. XIV. How MESSER NICOLO AND MESSER MAFFEO POLO AND NOTES.-I. Risks to Foreigners on a change of Sovereign. 2. The Lady Bolgana. 3. Passage from Ramusio. XVIII. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS AND MESSER MARCO TOOK NOTES.-1. Mongol Royal Messengers. 2. Mongol communication with the King of England. 3. Medieval Ships of China. 4. Passage from China to Sumatra. 5. Mortality among the Account of Regions Visited or heard of on the Journey from the Lesser Armenia to the Court of the Great Kaan at Chandu. |