Works, Volume 37Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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Page 157
... Italy and Sicily , the former derived from the kantár and the latter from the rithl of the Arabs , though the first of these words , and perhaps both , must have come to the Arabic from the Latin . 3 The pik is still the common cloth ...
... Italy and Sicily , the former derived from the kantár and the latter from the rithl of the Arabs , though the first of these words , and perhaps both , must have come to the Arabic from the Latin . 3 The pik is still the common cloth ...
Page 199
... Italy , is that he seems to have touched at Cyprus . In 1353 , according to Wadding , he arrived at Avignon , bringing a letter from the Khan to the Pope ( now Inno- cent VI ) , in which the monarch was made to express the greatest ...
... Italy , is that he seems to have touched at Cyprus . In 1353 , according to Wadding , he arrived at Avignon , bringing a letter from the Khan to the Pope ( now Inno- cent VI ) , in which the monarch was made to express the greatest ...
Page 200
... Italy to his paternal dominions ; whilst in 1356 we find him at Avignon , acting as envoy to the Pope from the republic of Florence ; and in 1357 he is traced at Bologna by his grant of indulgence privileges to one of the churches in ...
... Italy to his paternal dominions ; whilst in 1356 we find him at Avignon , acting as envoy to the Pope from the republic of Florence ; and in 1357 he is traced at Bologna by his grant of indulgence privileges to one of the churches in ...
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early employment 4 sent by the Pope to Kúblái Khan letter from | 26 |
Chagatai 32 chronological difficulties in connexion with the dates | 35 |
Archbishop of Soltania 37 another work probably his but erroneously | 38 |
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