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I add Lists of the Miniatures in two of the finer MSS. as noted from examination.
LIST OF MINIATURES IN THE GREAT VOLUME OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL LIBRARY, COMMONLY KNOWN AS ‘LE LIVRE DES MERVEILLES’ (Fr. 2810) WHICH BELONG TO THE BOOK OF MARCO POLO.
1. Frontispiece. “Comment les deux freres se partirent de Constantinople pour cherchier du monde.”
2. Conversation with the Ambassadors at Bokhara (fol. 2).
3. The Brothers before the G. Kaan (f. 2 v.).
4. The Kaan giving them Letters (f. 3).
5. " " " " a Golden Tablet (f. 3 v.).
6. The Second Departure from Venice (f. 4).
7. The Polos before Pope Gregory (f. 4 v.)
8. The two elder Polos before the Kaan presenting Book and Cross (f. 5).
9. The Polos demand conge (f. 6).
10. (Subject obscure) (f. 7).
11. Georgians, and Convent of St. Leonard (f. 8).
12. The Calif shut up in his Treasury (f. 9).
13. The Calif ordering Christians to move the Mountain (f. 10).
14. Miracle of the Mountain (God is seen pushing it) (f. 10 v.)
15. The three Kings en route (f. 11 v.).
16. " " " adoring the Fire (f. 12).
17. (Subject obscure—Travelling in Persia?) (f. 12 v.)
18. Cattle of Kerman (f. 13 v.).
19. Ship from India arriving at Hormus (f. 14 v.).
20. Travelling in a Wood, with Wild Beasts (f. 15 v.).
21. The Old Man’s Paradise (f. 16 v.).
22. The Old Man administering the Potion (f. 17).
23. Hunting Porcupines in Badashan (f. 18).
24. Digging for Rubies in Badashan (f. 18).
25. Kashmir—the King maintaining Justice
(i.e., seeing a Man’s head cut
off) (f. 19 v.).
