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TranScript
Journal issue | 3 | 2024
Research Article | I frammenti del Livre des merveilles du monde di Jean de Mandeville del manoscritto It. VI 208 (5881) della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
I frammenti del Livre des merveilles du monde di Jean de Mandeville del manoscritto It. VI 208 (5881) della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Abstract
The manuscript It. VI 208 (5881) preserved in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice is a miscellany of vernacular travel accounts and Latin religious texts, copied between 1518 and 1520 by a Franciscan friar who had previously lived in Palestine. It is the only manuscript containing vernacular travel accounts that can be certainly traced back to the Franciscan milieu. The present contribution aims to provide a description of the manuscript and its contents, with particular attention to the translation of the Relatio by Odorico da Pordenone, the Milione by Marco Polo, and the excerpta by Jean de Mandeville. An interpretative transcription of the latter is offered in the appendix.
Submitted: Oct. 15, 2024 | Accepted: Nov. 15, 2024 | Published March 9, 2025 | Language: it
Keywords Travel Literature • Jean de Mandeville • Marco Polo • Manuscripts • Odorico da Pordenone • Translation
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