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Rh 1504, 4to; Venezia, 1515, 4to, and 1534, 8vo; 1537, 8vo; 1564, 8vo; 1567, 8vo.

German. Das buch des Ritters von Montevilla. Augspurg, 1481, fol., with wood-cuts; and 1482. fol., with woodcuts. This translation is by Michelfelser.

Johannes von Montevilla, Ritter, Strassburg, 1484, folio, with wood-cuts; translated by Otto von Demeringen. Also 1488, 4to; 1499, fol., with wood-cuts; 1501, with wood-cuts; 1507, fol.

Des Ritters Johannes von Montevilla Reyss und Wanderschaft durch das gelobte Landt, Indien und Persien. Francof. 1580, 8vo; 1600; 1608.

The same in “Reisebuch des Heiligen Landes,” etc. Franckf. 1629; fol. Th. , p. 759.

Spanish. Valencia, 1540; fol.

Dutch. Antwerpen, 1494; fol.

Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, of Florence, made a journey into the east in the service of the Florentine Trading Company, and collected, especially in Tana (Asow), very useful accounts concerning the route of the caravans which went to China through the interior of Asia. He wrote in 1335 a work on the subject, a kind of commercial geography, remarkable for its time, bearing the title—“Libro di divisamenti di paesi et di misure di mercatanzie e d’altre cose bisognevoli di sapere a’ mercatanti di diverse parti del