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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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(G. T.) Voz di qi? il est celle plaingne mozttchaue (chaude). The bread in Kerman is bitter, says the G. T. for ce que Peive hi est amer,because the water there is bitter. The Crusca mistakes the last word and renders(p. 40) e qtiesti il per lo mare eke vi viene. SacAits de voir qc endementiers, know for a tiuth that whilst , by some misunderstanding of the last word becomes (p. 129) Sappiate di vero sanzamentire. Mes de sel font-il monoie —They make money of salt, becomes (p. 168)limafannole da loro, sel being taken for a pronoun, whilst in another places/is transferred bodily without translation. Chevoil hair of the old French, appears in the Tuscan (p. 20) as cavag/i,horses.—iiLa Grant Provence Jereraus, the great general province, appears(p. 68) as a province whose proper name is lenaratcs. In describing Kiiblaisexpedition against Mien or Burma, Polo has a story of his calling on the Jugglers athis court to undertake the job, promising them a Captain and other help, Cheveitain
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Image: Temple of 500 Genii, at Canton, after a drawing by Felix Regamey. THE OLD FRENCH TEXT 83 52. The French Text that we have been quoting, published by the Geographical Society of Paris in 1824, affords on the other hand the strongest corresponding proof that it is 01d Fr han original and not a Translation. Rude as is the ^d513 language of the manuscript (Fr. 1116, formerly No. ^q^m7367, of Paris Library), it is, in the correctness of the graPhle-proper names, and the intelligible exhibition of the itineraries,much superior to any form of the Work previously published. The language is very peculiar. We are obliged to call it French, but it is not Frenche of Paris. Its style, says Paulin Paris, is about as like that of good French authors of the age, as in our day the natural accent ofa German, an Englishman, or an Italian, is like that of acitizen of Paris or Blois. The author is at war with all the practices of French grammar; subject and object, numbers,moods, and tenses, are in consummate confusion. Even readers of his own day must at times have b

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