Book contents
- Frontmatter
- III CATHAY UNDER THE MONGOLS. EXTRACTED FROM RASHIDUDDIN
- IV NOTICES OF THE LAND ROUTE TO CATHAY AND OF ASIATIC TRADE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
- V JOHN DE' MARIGNOLLI AND HIS RECOLLECTIONS OF EASTERN TRAVEL
- VI IBN BATUTA'S TRAVELS IN BENGAL AND CHINA
- VII THE JOURNEY OF BENEDICT GOËS FROM AGRA TO CATHAY
- APPENDIX I LATIN TEXT OF ODORIC, FROM A MS. IN THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE IMPÉRIALE
- APPENDIX II OLD ITALIAN TEXT OF ODORIC, FROM A MS. IN THE BIBLIOTECA PALATINA AT FLORENCE
- APPENDIX III TRANSCRIPT FROM THE ORIGINAL MS. OF THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF PEGOLOTTI
- INDEX TO “CATHAY AND THE WAY THITHER”
APPENDIX I - LATIN TEXT OF ODORIC, FROM A MS. IN THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE IMPÉRIALE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- III CATHAY UNDER THE MONGOLS. EXTRACTED FROM RASHIDUDDIN
- IV NOTICES OF THE LAND ROUTE TO CATHAY AND OF ASIATIC TRADE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
- V JOHN DE' MARIGNOLLI AND HIS RECOLLECTIONS OF EASTERN TRAVEL
- VI IBN BATUTA'S TRAVELS IN BENGAL AND CHINA
- VII THE JOURNEY OF BENEDICT GOËS FROM AGRA TO CATHAY
- APPENDIX I LATIN TEXT OF ODORIC, FROM A MS. IN THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE IMPÉRIALE
- APPENDIX II OLD ITALIAN TEXT OF ODORIC, FROM A MS. IN THE BIBLIOTECA PALATINA AT FLORENCE
- APPENDIX III TRANSCRIPT FROM THE ORIGINAL MS. OF THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF PEGOLOTTI
- INDEX TO “CATHAY AND THE WAY THITHER”
Summary
DESCRIPTIO ORIENTALIUM PARTIUM FRATRIS ODORICI BOEMI DE FORO JULII PROVINCIÆ SANCTI ANTONII
De Trapesondâ et Armeniâ Majori
Licet alia multa et varia de ritibus et conditionibus hujus mundi a multis enarrentur, tamen est sciendum quod ego frater Odoricus de Foro Julio, volens transfretare et ad partes infidelium volens ire ut fructus aliquos lucri facerem animarum, multa magna et mirabilia audivi atque vidi quæ possum veraciter enarrare. Nam primo transiens Mare Majus, me transtuli Trapesondam, quæ Pontus antiquitus vocabatur. Hæc terra valde est bene situata; ipsa enim est scala quædam, videlicet Persarum, Medorum et omnium eorum que sunt ultra mare. In hac enim terra vidi quoddam quod michi placuit valde. Nam vidi hominem quemdam secum ducentem plures quam quatuor milia perdicum. Iste homo per terram veniebat, perdices non per aerem volabant; has perdices ipse ducebat ad quoddam castrum quod vocatur Canega, distans a Trapesonda tribus dietis. Hæc perdices hujus erant conditionis et proprietatis. Nam cum ille homo vellet quiescere vel dormire, omnes se aptabant circa eum, more pullorum gallinarum; et sic isto modo eas ducebat Trapesondam, usque ad palatium imperatoris. Quæ cum sic essent ante eum de eis tot accipiebat quot ipse volebat. Alias autem predictus homo ad locum de quo prius illas acceperat perducebat. In hac civitate positum est corpus Athanasii super ipsius portam civitatis.
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- Cathay and the Way ThitherBeing a Collection of Medieval Notices of China, pp. 597 - 638Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1866