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Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Palazzo di S. Giorgio, Genoa. ( Jo face p. 62. RUSTICIEN DE PISE 63 analogy between these two prefaces. And it must be re-marked that the formula is not an ordinary one with translators,compilers, or authors of the 13th and 14th centuries. Perhapsyou would not find a single other example of it. * This seems to place beyond question the identity of theRomance-compiler of Prince Edwards suite in 1270, and thePrisoner of Genoa in 1298. 42. In Dunlops History of Fiction a passage is quoted fromthe preamble of Meliadus, as set forth in the Paris printededition of 1528, which gives us to understand that FurtherRusticien de Pise had received as a reward for some of concerninghis compositions from King Henry III. the prodigal Rustlcian-gift of two chateaux. I gather, however, from passages in thework of Paulin Paris that this must certainly be one of thoseconfusions of persons to which I have referred before, and thatthe recipient of the chateaux was in reality Helye de Borron,the author of s

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