Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. 2: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China, Odoric of PordenoneBz'ograp/zical ana' Introductory Notices - His native country, friuli, 5, his family and birthplace, 6, his name, 7, probable date of birth, 8, contemporary notices, 8, early history, 9, course of his travels, 10, alleged missionary labours, 11, and miracles, 11, his return home and death, 12 excitement at his funeral, 13, alleged posthumous miracles, 15, beatification, 16, monument, 17, reliques and portraits, 19, 20, writings ascribed to him, 22, character as a traveller, 24, marks of genuineness of his travels, 25, varieties in the mss., and classification of them, 26, chief difficulties in his narrative, 28, Mandeville's thefts from him, 33, decretum canonizationis, 35, funerals, 36, list of known mss., Latin, 39, Italian, 59, French, 67, German, 74, distribution of mss., 75, bibliography, 76, text of the translation, how determined, 93, indication of references to mss. And editions, 95.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.