. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . s it is Arabic, Abu-Kairdm, Pannus cum intextis figuris ; Wedgwood, attaching the modern meaning,that it is from It., bucherare, to pierce full of holes, which might be if bucherare couldbe used in the sense ; or the French piquer; Marsh connects it with thebucking of linen ; and DAvezac thinks it was a stuff that took its name from the name be local, as so many names of stuffs are, the French form rather suggestsBulgaria. [Heyd, II. 703, says that Buckram (Bucherame) was prin
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . s it is Arabic, Abu-Kairdm, Pannus cum intextis figuris ; Wedgwood, attaching the modern meaning,that it is from It., bucherare, to pierce full of holes, which might be if bucherare couldbe used in the sense ; or the French piquer; Marsh connects it with thebucking of linen ; and DAvezac thinks it was a stuff that took its name from the name be local, as so many names of stuffs are, the French form rather suggestsBulgaria. [Heyd, II. 703, says that Buckram (Bucherame) was principally manu-factured at Erzinjan (Armenia), Mush, and Mardin (Kurdistan), Ispahan (Persia),and in India, etc. It was shipped to the west at Constantinople, Satalia, Acre, andFamagusta ; the name is derived from Bokhara.—H. C] {Delia Decima, III. 18, 149, 65, 74, 212, etc. ; IV. 4, 5, 6, 212 ; Reiskes Notesto Const. Porphyrogen. II. ; DAvezac, p. 524; Vocab. Univ. Ital. ; ,Aecherches, etc. II. 29 seqq. : Philobiblon Soc. Miscell. VI. ; Marshs WedgwoodsEtym. Diet, sub voce.). Castk of Baiburt. Note 2.—Arziron is ERZRUM, which, even in Tournefoits time, the Frankscalled Erzeron (III. 126) ; [it was named Gariue, then IVieodosiopolis, in honour of * Polos contemporary, the Indian Poet Amir Khusrri, puts in the mouth of his king Kaikobad acontemptuous gibe at the Mongols with their cotton-quilted dresses. {Elliot, III. p. 526.) Chap. III. BAIBURT 49 Theodosius the Great; the present name was given by the Seljukid Turks, and itmeans Roman Country ; it was taken by Chinghiz Khan and Timur, but neitherkept it long. Odorico {Cathay, I. p. 46), speaking of this city, says it is mightycold. (See also on the low temperature of the place, Tournefort, Voyage du Levant,II. pp. 258-259.) Arzizi, Akjish, in the vilayet of Van, was destroyed in the middleof the 19th century; it was situated on the road from Van to Erzrum. Arjish Kalawas one of the ancient capitals of the Kingdo
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