. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . sinking day by day ; and heDeath. has sent for Giovanni Giustiniani, Priest of S. Proculo and Notary, to make his Last Will and Testament It runsthus :— In the Name of the Eternal God Amen ! In the year from the Incarnation of cur Lord Jesus Christ 1323, on the * The document is given in Appendix C, No. 5. It was found by , the Director of the Museo Civico, when he had most kindly accompanied meto aid in the search for certain other documents in the archives of the Casa diRicovero, or Poo
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . sinking day by day ; and heDeath. has sent for Giovanni Giustiniani, Priest of S. Proculo and Notary, to make his Last Will and Testament It runsthus :— In the Name of the Eternal God Amen ! In the year from the Incarnation of cur Lord Jesus Christ 1323, on the * The document is given in Appendix C, No. 5. It was found by , the Director of the Museo Civico, when he had most kindly accompanied meto aid in the search for certain other documents in the archives of the Casa diRicovero, or Poor House of Venice. These archives contain a great mass of testa-mentary and other documents, which probably have come into that singular depositoryin connection with bequests to public charities. The document next mentioned was found in as strange a site, viz., the Casa degliEsposti or Foundling Hospital, which possesses similar muniments. This also I oweto Comm. Barozzi, who had noted it some years before, when commencing anarrangement of the archives of the Institution. i 4r_ X t A 4. eg OS -a s <3 z UJ - - o oc UJ UJ0. DO(0 K ? ° * Z o m ? > Q. QJ < -i Ig (0 •2. RCO POLOS LAST WILL 1 «*• Ai| *«»* iRUr*~i L.* *£ .LT 17^ f r^* -*«-» rt^ *rU-^ •* ~sr »V ™sr. ?$**,. ^ |6-JJ ^^TJX^^^^^r-*^^1* ?£4 ~«H U.^4 W-9&* ***$ £f»~t «0i^ «--ww». ,TTW^ ««-yW- **f ~ •>* ve-v^ «S. «-*P* ^oir *•*» Htuy rilf ^.w^jsr^^ f*n», C^=^v •^V—Wvf fUr^ MARCO POLOS LAST WILL 71 9th day of the month of January, in the first half of the 7th Indiction* atRialto. It is the counsel of Divine Inspiration as well as the judgment of aprovident mind that every man should take thought to make a dispositionof his property before death become imminent, lest in the end it shouldremain without any disposition :
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