The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,335 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2.

The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,335 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2.

[16] Cappellari.

[17] Libro d’Oro from 1414 to 1407 in Museo Correr.  Comm. by Comm. 
    Berchet.

APPENDIX C.—­Calendar of Documents Relating to Marco Polo and his Family.

1.—­(1280).

Will of Marco Polo of S. Severo, uncle of the Traveller, executed at
Venice, 5th August, 1280.  An Abstract given in vol. i. pp. 23-24.

  The originals of this and the two other Wills (Nos. 2 and 8) are in St.
  Mark’s Library.  They were published first by Cicogna, Iscrizioni
  Veneziane
, and again more exactly by Lazari.

2.—­(1300).

Will of Maffeo Polo, brother of the Traveller, executed at Venice, 31st
August, 1300.  Abstract given at pp. 64-65 of vol. i.

3.—­(1302).

Archivio Generale—­Maggior Consiglio—­Liber Magnus, p. 81.[1]

  1392. 13 Aprilis. (Capta est):  Quod fit gratia provido viro MARCO PAULO
  quod ipse absolvatur a pena incursa pro eo quod non fecit circari unam
  suam conductam cum ignoraverit ordinem circa hoc.

    Ego MARCUS MICHAEL consiliarius m.p.s. 
    Ego PAULUS DELPHINUS consiliarius m.p.s. 
    Ego MARCUS SIBOTO de mandato ipsorum cancellavi.

4—­(1305).

Resolution of the Maggior Consiglio, under date 10th April, 1305, in which Marco Polo is styled Marcus Paulo Milioni. (See p. 67 of vol. i.) In the Archivio Generate, Maggior Cons.  Reg.  M.S., Carta 82.[2]

“Item quod fiat gratia Bonocio de Mestre de illis Libris centum quinquaginta duobus, in quibus extitit condempnatus per Capitaneos Postarum, occasione vini per eum portati contra bampnum, isto modo videlicet quod solvere debeat dictum debitum hinc ad annos quatuor, solvendo annuatim quartum dicti debiti per hunc modum, scilicet quod dictus Bonocius ire debeat cum nostris Ambaxiatoribus, et soldum quod ei competet pro ipsis viis debeat scontari, et it quod ad solvendum dictum quartum deficiat per eum vel suos plegios integre persolvatur.  Et sunt plegii Nobiles Viri PETRUS MAUROCENO et MARCHUS PAULO MILION et plures alii qui sunt scripti ad Cameram Capitaneorum Postarum.”

5.—­(1311).

Decision in Marco Polo’s suit against Paulo Girardo, 9th March 1311, for recovery of the price of musk sold on commission, etc. (From the Archives of the Casa di Ricovero at Venice, Filza No. 202). (See vol. i. p. 70.)

  “In nomine Dei Eterni Amen.  Anno ab Incarnatione Domini Nostri Jesu
  Christi millesimo trecentesimo undecimo, Mensis Marci die nono, intrante
  Indicione Nona, Rivoalti ...

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