The Travels of Marco Polo
Chapter 18 : Observatory Terrace.Observatory Instruments of the Jesuits. All these from photographs

Observatory Terrace.

Observatory Instruments of the Jesuits. All these from photographs kindly lent to the present Editor by Count de Semalle.

Marco Polo's Itineraries. No. IV. EASTERN ASIA. This includes also Sketch Map of the Ruins of SHANGTU, after Dr. BUSh.e.l.l; and Enlarged Sketch of the Pa.s.sage of the Hw.a.n.g-ho or Karamoran on the road to Si-ngan fu (see vol.

ii. pp. 25-27) from the data of _Baron von Richthofen_.

WOODCUTS PRINTED WITH THE TEXT.

INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.

A MEDIAEVAL s.h.i.+P.

COAT OF ARMS of SIR HENRY YULE.

ARMS of the POLO family, according to Priuli.

ARMS of the POLO family, according to Marco Barbaro. (See p. 7, note.)

Autograph of HETHUM or HAYTON I. King of (Cicilian) Armenia; copied from _Codice Diplomatico del Sacro Militare Ordine Gerosolemitano_, I. 135. The signature is attached to a French doc.u.ment without date, granting the King's Daughter "Damoiselle Femie" (Euphemia) in marriage to Sire Julian, son of the Lady of Sayete (Sidon). The words run: _Thagavor Haiwetz_ ("Rex Armenorum"), followed by the King's cypher or monogram; but the initial letter is absent, probably worn off the original doc.u.ment.

The PIAZZETTA at VENICE in the 14th century. From a portion of the Frontispiece Miniature of the MS. of Marco Polo in the Bodleian. (Borrowed from the _National Miscellany_, published by J. H. Parker, Oxford, for 1853-55; and see _Street's Brick and Marble_, etc., 1855, pp. 150-151.) [See vol. ii. p. 529.]

Three extracts from MAPS of VENICE, showing the site of the CA' POLO at three different periods, (1) From the great woodcut Map or View of Venice, dated 1500, and commonly called Albert Durer's. (2) From a Plan by Cav.

Ludovico Ughi, 1729. (3) From the Modern Official Plan of the City.

Diagram of arrangement of oars in galleys.

Extract from a fres...o...b.. SPINELLO ARETINI, in the Munic.i.p.al Palace at Siena, representing a GALLEY FIGHT (perhaps imaginary) between the Venetians and the fleet of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and ill.u.s.trating the arrangements of mediaeval galleys. Drawn from a very dim and imperfect photograph, after personal study of the original, by the Editor.

Extract from a picture by DOMENICO TINTORETTO in the Ducal Palace at Venice, representing the same GALLEY-FIGHT. After an engraving in the _Theatrum Venetum_.

MARCO POLO'S GALLEY going into action at CURZOLA. Drawn by Signor Q.

CENNI, from a design by the Editor.

Map to ill.u.s.trate the SEA-FIGHT at CURZOLA, where Marco Polo was taken prisoner.

SEAL of the PISAN PRISONERS in Genoa, after the battle of Meloria (1284).

From _Manni, Osservazioni Storiche sopra Sigilli Antichi_, tom. xii.

Engraved by T. ADENEY.

The Convent and CHURCH of S. LORENZO, the burial-place of Marco Polo, as it existed in the 15th century. From the Map of 1500 (see above). Engraved by the same.

Arms of the TREVISAN family, according to Priuli.

TAILED STAR near the Antarctic, as Marco Polo drew it for Pietro d'Abano.

From the _Conciliator_ of Pietro d'Abano.

PROLOGUE.

Remains of the Castle of SOLDAIA or Sudak. After _Dubois de Montpereux, Voyage autour du Caucase_, Atlas, 3d s. Pl. 64.

Ruins of BOLGHAR. After _Demidoff, Voyage dans la Russie Meridionale_, Pl.

75.

The GREAT KAAN delivering a GOLDEN TABLET to the two elder Polos. From a miniature in the _Livre des Merveilles du Monde_ (Fr. 2810) in the Library at Paris, fol. 3 verso.

Castle of AYAS. After _Langlois, Voyage en Cilicie._

Plan of ACRE as it was when lost (A.D. 1291). Reduced and translated from the contemporary plan in the _Secreta Fidelium Crucis_ of Marino Sanudo the Elder, engraved in _Bongars, Gesta Dei per Francos_, vol. ii.

Portrait of Pope GREGORY X. After _J. B. de Cavaleriis Pontific.u.m Romanorum Effigies_, etc. Romae, 1580.

Ancient CHINESE WAR VESSEL. From the Chinese Encyclopaedia called _San-Thsai-Thou-Hoei_, in the Paris Library.

BOOK FIRST.

Coin of King HETUM I. and Queen ISABEL of Cilician Armenia. From an original in the British Museum. Engraved by ADENEY.

Castle of BAIBURT. After _Texier, L'Armenie_, Pl. 3.

Mediaeval GEORGIAN FORTRESS. From a drawing by Padre CRISTOFORO DI CASTELLI of the Theatine Mission, made in 1634, and now in the Communal Library at Palermo. The name of the place has been eaten away, and I have not yet been able to ascertain it.

View of DERBEND. After a cut from a drawing by M. Moynet in the _Tour du Monde_, vol. i.

Coin of BADRUDDiN LOLO of Mosul (A.H. 620). After _Marsden's Numismata Orientalia_, No. 164. By ADENEY.

GHaZaN Khan's Mosque at TABRIZ. Borrowed from _Fergusson's History of Architecture._

KASHMIR SCARF with animals, etc. After photograph from the scarf in the Indian Museum.

Humped Oxen from the a.s.syrian Sculptures at Kouyunjik. From _Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies._

Portrait of a Hazara. From a Photograph, kindly taken for the purpose, by M.-Gen. _C. P. Keyes_, C.B., Commanding the Panjab Frontier Force.

Ill.u.s.trations of the use of the DOUBLE RUDDER in the Middle Ages. 7 figures, viz., No. 1, The Navicello of Giotto in the Porch of St. Peter's.

From _Eastlake's H. of Painting_; Nos. 2 and 3, from _Pertz, Scriptores_, tom. xviii. after a Genoese Chronicle; No. 4, Sketch from fresco of Spinello Aretini at Siena; No. 5, Seal of Port of Winchelsea, from _Suss.e.x Archaeological Collections_, vol. i. 1848; No. 6, Sculpture on Leaning Tower at Pisa, after _Jal, Archeologie Navale_; No. 7, from the Monument of Peter Martyr, the persecutor of the Lombard _Patarini_, in the Church of St. Eustorgius at Milan, after _Le Tombe ed i Monumenti Ill.u.s.tri d'Italia_, Mil. 1822-23.

The _ARBRE SEC_, and _ARBRES DU SOLEIL ET DE LA LUNE_. From a miniature in the Prose Romance of Alexander, in the Brit. Museum MS. called the _Shrewsbury Book_ (Reg. xv. e. 6).

The CHINaR or Oriental Plane, viz., that called the Tree of G.o.dfrey of Boulogne at Buyukdere, near Constantinople. Borrowed from _Le Monde Vegetal_ of Figuier.