“МАРКО ПОЛОГИЙН АЯЛАЛ” БҮТЭЭЛИЙН ХУВИЛБАРУУДЫН ТУХАЙД

Abstract

           Marco Polo was one of the first Europeans to travel to the Orient. His travelogue, copied several times and translated in various languages, spread all over Europe at that time. Thus, there is a wide range of versions of Marco Polo‘s travelogue which, however, differ in content as well as in quantity and quality of information. The Venetian humanist Ramusio collated several versions available to him in Venice in the middle of the sixteenth century, and produced the very first critical edition of Marco Polo’s travelogue. In this article we underline the importance of his work and discuss some of ist peculiarities.