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translated again into Latin from an Italian translation made from a Latin copy. Copies of this MS. are also found in the public libraries of Rome, Padua, Modena, Ferrara, Berlin, and Wolfenbüttel. That in the British Museum is supposed by Sir Henry Ellis to have been written about 1400.

In Mentz. Latin.

See Recensus codd. Moguntiæ in R. Capituli Metropolitani Bibliotheca latitantium, pars prima. In Val. Ferd. de Guden Sylloge variorum diplomatariorum Monumentorumque veterum ineditorum adhuc, et res germanicas imprimis Moguntinas illustrantium. Francof., 1728; 8vo.; pages 377-385.

In Giessen, in the University library, Latin, under the title—

Marcus Polus de Venetiis: de conditionibus et consuetudinibus orientalium regionum: bound up with Cod. 218, a MS. of Eusebius. See Catalogus Codd. Mspt. Bibliothecæ Academ. Gissensis. Auct. J. Valent. Adrian. Francof. ad Mœn. 1840, 8vo.

In Florence. Italian. This MS. is generally called by the epithet of Marco Polo, il Millione, and under this name is entered in the Dictionary of the Academia della Crusca.

In Brit. Mus. (Sloane MSS.), bearing date 1457.

In Berne. French. Of the fourteenth century, on parchment, in folio. In the library of Bongars.—See Sinner, “Catalogus Codd. MSS. Bibliothecæ Bernensis annotationibus criticis illustratus; addita sunt excerpta quam plurima et præfatio, curante J. R. Sinner” (Bernæ, 1770; 3 vols., 8vo., t. ii, p. 419),