(9). G.T. 18 (I. 50). Un roi qi est apelés par tout tens Davit Melic, que veut à dir _en fransois_ Davit Roi. Crusca, 20 .. Uno re il quale si chiama _sempre_ David Melic, ciò è a dire _in francesco_ David Re. G.L. 312 .. Rex qui _semper_ vocatur David Mellic, quod sonat _in gallico_ David Rex. These passages, and many more that might be quoted, seem to me to demonstrate (1) that the Latin and the Crusca have had a common original, and (2) that this original was an Italian version from the French. [2] Thus the _Pucci_ MS. at Florence, in the passage regarding the Golden King (vol. ii. p. 17) which begins in G. T. “_Lequel fist faire_ jadis _un rois qe fu apellés le Roi Dor_,” renders “_Lo quale fa fare_ Jaddis _uno re_,” a mistake which is not in the Crusca nor in the Latin, and seems to imply derivation from the French directly, or by some other channel (_Baldelli Boni_). [3] In the Prologue (vol. i. p. 34) this class of MSS. alone names the King of England. In the account of the Battle with Nayan (i. p. 337) this class alone speaks of the two-stringed instruments which the Tartars played whilst awaiting the signal for battle. But the circumstance appears elsewhere in the G. T. (p. 250). In the chapter on _Malabar_ (vol. ii. p. 390), it is said that the ships which go with cargoes towards Alexandria are not one-tenth of those that go to the further East. This is not in the older French. In the chapter on _Coilun_ (ii. p. 375), we have a notice of the Columbine ginger so celebrated in the Middle Ages, which is also absent from the older text. [4] See vol. ii. p. 439. It is, however, remarkable that a like mistake is made about the Persian Gulf (see i. 63, 64). Perhaps Polo _thought_ in Persian, in which the word _darya_ means either _sea_ or a _large river_. The same habit and the ambiguity of the Persian _sher_ led him probably to his confusion of lions and tigers (see i. 397). [5] Such are Pasciai-_Dir_ and _Ariora_ Kesciemur (i. p. 98.)