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Marco Polo, Li Livres du Graunt Caam
The Books of the Grand Khan
Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, folio 222r



Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264
Description

(fols. 3r-208r) The Romance of Alexander in French verse, with miniatures illustrating legends of Alexander the Great and with marginal scenes of everyday life, by the Flemish illuminator Jehan de Grise and his workshop, 1338-44; with two sections added in England c. 1400, (fols. 209r-215v, with fol. 1r) Alexander and Dindimus (Alexander Fragment B) in Middle English verse, with coarser miniatures, and (fols. 218r- 71v, with fol. 2v) Marco Polo, Li Livres du Graunt Caam, in French prose, with miniatures by Johannes and his school.
Source: Bodleian Library
Back to the detail of An assault on a castle in Li Livres du Graunt Caam by Marco Polo. Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264 - folio 222r
A siege of a castle in Li Livres du Graunt Caam by Marco Polo. Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264 - folio 255r



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