Bibliography of Marco Polo’s Book

Bibliography of Printed Editions.

1.—Die Reisen des Venezianers Marco Polo im 13. Jahrhundert Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Dr. Hans Lemke Mit einem Bilde Marco Polos. Hamburg, Ernst Schultze, 1908, 8vo, pp. 573.

Bibliothek wertvoller Memoiren.

Lebensdokumente hervorragender Menschen aller Zeiten und Völker Herausgegeben von Dr. Ernst Schultze. 1 Band.

Revised edition of Bürck’s translation of Ramusio’s Italian text published in 1845.

2.—*Marco Polo: Abenteuerliche Fahrten. Neu herausgegeben von Dr. Otto St. Brandt. Mit 3 Spezialkarten. Druck und Verlag von August Scherl in Berlin, small 8vo, pp. 319.

Notices: Mitt. K. K. Geogr. Ges. Wien, Bd. LVI., 1913, pp. 258–259. Von E. G.—Geog. Zeitschft. Leipzig, XIX., 1913, pp. 531. By K. Kretschmer.

3.—Marco Polo Il Milione secondo il testo della “Crusca” reintegrato con gli altri codici italiani a cura di Dante Olivieri. Bari, Gius. Laterza & figli, 1912, in–8, 2 ff. n. ch. + pp. 317.

Scrittori d’Italia.

4.—Cosmographia breue introductoria en el libro d’ Marco Polo. Seville, 1518.—See II., p. 566.

The bookseller Karl W. Hiersemann, of Leipzig, has in his catalogue America, no. 336, in 1907, no. 2323, quoted M.11.000 a copy of the Cosmographia with the colophon: Elq̄l se emprimio por Juan varela | d’salamāca en la muy noble y muy | leal ciudad de Seuilla. Año de | mill y qonientos y diez y ocho | año a. XVI. dias de mayo.—Fol., 4 ff. not numbered + ff. 31 numbered on 2 columns.

5.—Yule—Cordier.—The Book of Ser Marco Polo ... Third Edition.... London, John Murray, 1903, 2 vols., 8vo.

Notices: Glasgow Herald, 11 June, 1903.—Scotsman, 11 June, 1903.—Outlook, 13 June, 1903.—Morning Post, 18 June, 1903.—Bulletin Comité Asie française, Juin, 1903.—Standard, 17 June, 1903.—Daily Chronicle, 20 June, 1903.—Manchester Guardian, 23 June, 1903.—Pall Mall Gazette, 15 July, 1903.—Bombay Gazette, 11 July, 1903.—The Spectator, 15 Aug., 1903.—The Guardian (by C. Raymond Beazley), 2 Sept., 1903.—Times (by H. J. Mackinder), 2 Oct., 1903.—Blackwood’s Mag. (by Charles Whibley), Oct., 1903.—Illustrated Evening News, Chicago, 26 Sept., 1903.—The Sun, New York, 4 Oct., 1903 (by M. W. H.).—Hongkong Daily Press, 10 and 11 Sept., 1903.—The Athenæum, 17 Oct., 1903.—Outlook, 14 Nov., 1903.—Some new Facts about Marco Polo’s Book, by E. H. Parker (Imp. & Asiat. Quart. Review, Jan., 1904, pp. 125–149).—Saturday Review, 27 Feb., 1904.—T’oung Pao, Oct., 1903, pp. 357–366, from The Athenæum.—Geographical Journal, March, 1904, pp. 379–380, by C. R. B.[eazley].—Bul. Ecole franç. Ext. Orient, IV, Juillet–Sept., 1904, pp. 768–772, by Paul Pelliot.—Marco Polo and his Followers in Central Asia, by Archibald R. Colquhoun (Quarterly Review, April, 1904, pp. 553–575).

6.—The most noble and famous Travels of Marco Polo one of the Nobility of the State of Venice, into the east Parts of the World, as Armenia, Persia, Arabia, Tartary, with many other Kingdoms and Provinces. The translation of Marsden revised by Thomas Wright, F.S.A.—London: George Newnes; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904, 16mo, pp. xxxix–461, Portrait and maps.

7.—Voyages and Travels of Marco Polo, With an Introduction by Henry Morley. Cassell and Company, London, Paris, New York and Melbourne, MCMIV, 16mo, pp. 192, front.

8.—Everyman’s Library, edited by Ernest Rhys—Travel and Topography—Marco Polo’s Travels with an Introduction by John Masefield.

The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian. London: Published by J. M. Dent & Co., and in New York by E. P. Dutton & Co., 16mo, pp. xvi–461, n. d. [1907].

9.—*Шемякинъ, А. Н.—Путешествія Венеціанца Марко Поло въ XIII столѣтіи, напечатанныя въ первый разъ вполнѣ на нѣмецкомъ по лучшимъ изданіямъ и съ объясненіями Авг. Бюркомъ. Съ дополненіями и поправками К. Ф. Нейманна. Переводъ съ нѣмецкаго. Москва, 1863.

Had been published in Чтеніяхъ въ Имп. Общ. Истопіи и Древностей Россійскихъ при Моск. Университетѣ.

Mentioned by Barthold in Minaev’s Marco Polo.

10.—*Marco Polo’s Resa i Asien ([Folkskrifter] allm. hist. No. 32) Stockholm, 1859, P. G. Berg.

11.—Venetianaren Marco Polos Resor i det XIII. århundraded Översättning samt inledning och anmärkningar av Bengt Thordeman.—Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, n. d. [1917], 2 vol. 8vo, pp. xx–248, 249 to 490, genealogical table of the Tartars, Map.

Pages 345–480 are devoted to notes.

12.—There is a Japanese piratical edition of the second edition of Yule’s Marco Polo brought out by the firm Kyoyekishosha in 1900 and costing 8 yen. Cf. Bulletin Ecole franç. Ext. Orient, IV, p. 769, note.

Titles of Sundry Books and Papers Which Treat of Marco Polo and His Book.

1.—Histoire des Établissements européens aux Indes orientales par A. Chardin, suivie d’un extrait de l’article sur Marco Polo, de M. Walkenaer, Membre de l’Institut; d’un extrait de la vie de Jonh [sic] Mandeville, par Washington Irving; et d’une notice sur le Camoens, par Mme de Stael.—Paris, Rue et Place Saint-André des Arts, no. 30—1832, 12mo, pp. 104.

Marco Polo, p. 87.—John Mandeville, p. 94.

Marco Polo, after la Biographie universelle; Mandeville, after l’Histoire de Christophe Colomb, de W. Irving.

Fait partie de la Bibliothèque populaire ou l’Instruction mise à la portée de toutes les classes et de toutes les intelligences par MM. Arago ... et Ajasson de Grandsagne, chargé de la Direction.

2.—Mayers, W. F.—Marco Polo’s Legend concerning Bayan. (Notes and Queries on China and Japan, Nov., 1868, p. 162.)

3.—Palladius’ Elucidations. See II., p. 579, No. 63.

Notice in Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes, 1876, p. 345.

4.—Marco Polo und die Anianstrasse. Von Prof. S. Ruge, Dresden. (Globus, LXIX., 1896, pp. 133–137.)

5.—Un capitaine du règne de Philippe le Bel Thibaut de Chepoy par Joseph Petit. (Le Moyen Age, Paris, 1897, pp. 224–239).

6.—Комментарій Архимандрита Палладія Каөарова на путешествіе Марко Поло по сѢверному Китаю съ предисловіемъ Н. И. Веселовскаго. Санкпетербургъ, Тип. Имп. Акад. Наукъ, 1902, 8vo, pp. 47, portrait.

7.—Moule, Rev. G. E.—Notes on Col. Yule’s Edition of Marco Polo’s “Quinsay.” (Jour. North-China Br. R. As. Soc., N. S., IX., 1875, pp. 1–24.)

8.—The Tarikh-i-Rashidi of Mirza Muhammad Haidar, Dughlát A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia, An English Version Edited, with Commentary, Notes, and Map by N. Elias. The Translation by E. Denison Ross.... London, Sampson Low, 1895, 8vo.

9.—A. Slieptsov.—Маркъ Поло и его странствованія по царству Монгольскому, по Китаю и Индіи.—small 8vo, pp. 83, fig. [St. Petersb., 1901.]

„Книжка за книжкой,“ кн. 108–ая.

10.—Stein, Sir Aurel.—Preliminary Report of a Journey of Archæological and Topographical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1901, 4to.

—— Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1903, 8vo, pp. xliii–524.

—— Ancient Khotan. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1907, 2 vols., 4to.

—— Ruins of Desert Cathay. Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China. With numerous Illustrations, Colour Plates, Panoramas, and Maps from Original Surveys. Macmillan and Co., 1912, 2 vols. 8vo.

—— Les Documents chinois découverts par Aurel Stein dans les sables du Turkestan oriental publiés et traduits par Edouard Chavannes. Oxford, Imprimerie de l’Université, 1913, 4to.

—— Explorations in Central Asia (1906–1908). (Geographical Journal, July and Sept., 1909.)

—— Expedition in Central Asia. (Geog. Journ., May, 1915.)

—— Expedition in Central Asia. (Geog. Journ., Oct., 1915.)

—— Expedition in Central Asia. (Geog. Journ., May, 1916.)

—— A Third Journey of Exploration in Central Asia, 1913–16. (Geog. Journ., Aug. and Sept., 1916.)

—— Marco Polo’s Account of a Mongol Inroad into Kashmir. (Geog. Journ., Aug., 1919, pp. 92–103.)

11.—H. A. Giles’ Dictionary, Part III., pp. 1378–9.

List of Places mentioned by Marco Polo and identified by Yule.

12.—E. H. Parker.—Some New Facts about Marco Polo’s Book.

(Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review, Jan., 1904, pp. 125–149.)

—— Notes on Yule. (Journ. N. C. B. R. A. Soc., XXXVII., 1906, pp. 195, 196.)

13.—Cesare-Augusto Levi.—Il vero Segreto di Dante e Marco Polo.—Comunicazione al Comitato di Treviso della “Dante Alighieri” letta la sera del 17 Novembre, 1905—Treviso, Zoppelli, 1905, 8vo, pp. 37.

14.—The Dry Sea and the Carrenare—John Livingstone Lowes. Printed at the University of Chicago Press, 8vo, pp. 46.

Reprinted from Modern Philology, Vol. III., No. 1, June, 1905.

15.—Sykes, Major P. Molesworth, H.B.M.’s Consulate-General, Meshed. (Geog. Journ., XXVI., Oct., 1905, pp. 462–466.)

I. Did Marco Polo visit Baghdad?—II. Did Marco Polo visit the Tabas?

Henri Cordier’s reply, Ibid., Dec., 1905, pp. 686, 687.

16.—Noted Men who have helped China.—II. Marco Polo. By Dr. Gilbert Reid. (North China Herald, April 6, 1906.)

17.—C. Raymond Beazley.—The Dawn of Modern Geography. Vol. III. A History of Exploration and Geographical Science from the Middle of the Thirteenth to the early Years of the Fifteenth Century (c. A.D. 1260–1420). With reproductions of the Principal Maps of the Time. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906, 8vo, pp. xvi–638.

Chap. II. The Great Asiatic Travellers, 1260–1420. Part I. The Polos, 1260–1295, pp. 15–160.

18.—Hallberg, Ivar.—L’Extrême Orient dans la Littérature et la Cartographie de l’Occident des XIIIe, XIVe et XVe siècles—Étude sur l’histoire de la géographie.—Göteborg, 1906, 8vo, pp. viii–573.

19.—A. V. Jackson.—The Magi in Marco Polo and the Cities in Persia from which they came to worship the Infant Christ. (Journ. Amer. Orient. Soc., XXVI., I., pp. 79–83.)

—— Persia Past and Present. A Book of Travel and Research with more than two hundred illustrations and a map by A. V. Williams Jackson, Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages, and sometime adjunct Professor of the English Language and Literature in Columbia University. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1906, 8vo, pp. xxxi–471.

20.—Marco Polo’s Journey in Manzi. By John C. Ferguson. (Journal North China Branch R. As. Soc., XXXVII., 1906, pp. 190, 191.)

21.—The Pulse of Asia: A Journey in Central Asia illustrating the Geographic Basis of History, by Ellsworth Huntington. Illustrated. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907, 8vo, pp. xxi–415.

22.—Bruce, Major Clarence Dalrymple.—In the Footsteps of Marco Polo, Being the Account of a Journey Overland from Simla to Pekin. W. Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1907, 8vo, pp. xiv–379, ill., map.

23.—Houtum-Schindler, A.—Marco Polo’s Travels; New editions; his “Arbre Sol” not “Sun-tree,” but Cypress of Zoroaster (Journal R. As. Soc., Jan., 1909, pp. 154–162.)

24.—Sven Hedin.—Overland to India, with 308 Illustrations from Photographs, Water-colour Sketches, and Drawings by the Author, and 2 Maps. Macmillan and Co., London, 1910, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xix–416, xiv–357.

25.—L’itinéraire de Marco Polo en Perse, par M. Henri Cordier, membre de l’Académie. (Bull. Ac. Inscr. & Belles-Lettres, Ctes. rendus, Mai, 1911, pp. 298–309.)

26.—Hirth, Friedrich, and Rockhill, W. W.—Chau Ju-kua: His Work on the Chinese and Arab Trade in the twelfth and thirteenth Centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chï, Translated from the Chinese and Annotated. St. Petersburg, Printing Office of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1912, large 8vo, pp. x–288.

Mr. Rockhill has edited the Chinese Text of Chau Ju-kua at Tokyo, in 1914.

27.—Rockhill, W. W.—Notes on the Relations and Trade of China with the Eastern Archipelago and the Coast of the Indian Ocean during the Fourteenth Century. (T’oung Pao, 1914, July; 1915, March, May, July, October, December.)

28.—Paul Pelliot.—Kao-tch’ang Qočo, Houo-tcheou et Qarâ-khodja, par M. Paul Pelliot, avec une note additionnelle de M. Robert Gauthiot. (Journal Asiatique, Mai–Juin, 1912, pp. 579–603.)

—— Les documents chinois trouvés par la Mission Kozlov à Khara-Khoto. Ext. du Journal Asiatique (Mai–Juin, 1914). Paris, Imp. Nat., 1914, 8vo, pp. 20.

—— Chrétiens d’Asie centrale et d’Extrême-Orient par Paul Pelliot. (T’oung Pao, December, 1914, pp. 623–644.)

29.—Ferrand, Gabriel.—Relations des voyages et textes géographiques arabes, persans et turks relatifs à l’Extrême-Orient du VIIIe au XVIIIe siècles, traduits, revus et annotés. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1913–1914, 2 vols. 8vo.

Documents historiques et géographiques relatifs à l’Indo-chine publiés sous la direction de MM. Henri Cordier et Louis Finot.

—— La plus ancienne mention du nom de l’île de Sumatra. Ext. du Journal Asiatique (Mars–Avril, 1917). Paris, Imp. Nat., 1917, 8vo, pp. 7.

—— Malaka le Malāyu et Malāyur. Ext. du Journal Asiatique (Mai–Juin et Juillet–Août, 1918). Paris, Imp. Nat., 1918, 8vo, pp. 202.

—— Le nom de la girafe dans le Ying Yai Cheng Lan. Ext. du Journal Asiatique (Juillet–Août, 1918). Paris, Imp. Nat., 1918, 8vo, pp. 4.

30.—Yule—Cordier.—Cathay and the Way Thither being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China. New Edition. Vol. I. Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape Route. London, Hakluyt Society, 1915.—Vol. II. Odoric of Pordenone.—Ibid., 1913.—Vol. III. Missionary Friars—Rashíduddín—Pegolotti—Marignolli.—Ibid., 1914.—Vol. IV., Ibn Batuta.—Benedict Goës.—Index. Ibid., 1916; 4 vols., 8vo.

31.—Karajang, by B. Laufer (Chicago). (Journ. Roy. As. Soc., Oct., 1915, pp. 781–784.)

Cf. Geographical Journal, Feb., 1916, p. 146.

32.—Moule, Rev. A. C.—Notices of Christianity. Extracted from Marco Polo. (Journ. North China Br. R. As. Soc., XLVI., 1915, pp. 19–37.)

Facsimile of a page of French MS. 1116 in the Bibliothèque nationale.

—— Marco Polo’s Sinjumatu. (T’oung Pao, July, 1912, pp. 431–3.)

—— Hang-chou to Shang-tu, A.D. 1276. (T’oung Pao, July, 1915, pp. 393–419.)

—— Documents relating to the Mission of the Minor Friars to China in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. (Jour. Roy. As. Soc., July, 1914, pp. 533–599.)

—— A. C. M[oule].—A Note on the Chinese Atlas in the Magliabecchian Library, with reference to Kinsay in Marco Polo. (Jour. Roy. As. Soc., July, 1919, pp. 393–395.)

33.—Charles V. Langlois.—Marco Polo Voyageur. (Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXV.)

34.—Cordier, Henri.—Le Christianisme en Chine et en Asie sous les Mongols. (Ext. du T’oung Pao, 2e Sér., XVIII., 1917). Leide, E. J. Brill, 1918, 8vo, pp. 67.