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La fleur des histoires de la terre d’Orient by Hayton and Marco Polo’s Le livre des merveilles d’Asie
France, probably Paris, ca. 1410-1412
MS M.723 fol. 160r
Marco Polo: Text, Livre des Merveilles, Book II, Chapter 26; Kublai Khan: Scene, Messengers departing -- Two Mongol messengers depart from the city gate of Cambaluc (Beijing).
Scene in landscape setting within gold frame.
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