Excerpt from Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. 2: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China; Odoric of Pordenone Bz'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 ...
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Excerpt from Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. 2: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China; Odoric of Pordenone Bz'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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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