Le Devisement du monde
The Description of the World (Marco Polo)
Marco Polo's account as written down in Franco-Italian by Rustichello of Pisa (1298); book 3 describes his return voyage (1292–93) along India: Ceylon and the Buddha, Maabar (the Pāṇḍya coast) with its pearl fishery, brahmins and yogīs, the shrine of St Thomas, the queen of Mutfili (Kākatīya Rudramadevī), Kayal, Quilon, Cape Comorin, Eli, Malabar, Gujarat, Thana, Cambay, Somnath and Makran.
- Language
- fro
- Date
- 1298–1299 CE
- Authors
- Marco Polo, Rustichello da Pisa
- Extent
- 14,829 words
- Text
- not yet digitised (catalogue entry)
Translations (1)
- The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian — English