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Multiple recensions of the book circulate; none is a recovered 1298 autograph

From around 1300 the book exists in diverging recensions. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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From around 1300 the book exists in diverging recensions. No 1298 autograph is used here. Later libraries hold copies Polo did not typeset. Marco Polo's documented role is: He did not control later Tuscan, Venetian, and Latin recensions.

Context

Sharing transmission with copyists is required. The setting of Multiple recensions of the book circulate; none is a recovered 1298 autograph is the public file around 1300-01-01. Driver personal-data-protection is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Why it matters

High confidence that recensions diverge. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Marco Polo

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · verified

    He did not control later Tuscan, Venetian, and Latin recensions.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactMultiple recensions of the book circulate; none is a recovered 1298 autograph
    2. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 1 January 1300 · verified

    A split recension tradition is an opacity path for any unique wording.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.BnF — Devisement du monde manuscript heritageBibliothèque nationale de France · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Marco Polo return c. 1295Encyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

BnF heritage and Britannica independently discuss versions. Official carrier: BnF — Devisement du monde manuscript heritage (https://www.bnf.fr/ (opens in a new tab); Bibliothèque nationale de France). Independent carrier: Britannica — versions of Polo's book (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marco-Polo (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: multiple families of the text. Not established: a recovered autograph in Polo's hand. Established: a sourced public record of Multiple recensions of the book circulate; none is a recovered 1298 autograph under 1300-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Multiple recensions of the book circulate; none is a recovered 1298 autograph are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Multiple recensions of the book circulate; none is a recovered 1298 autograph. Naming Marco Polo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1300-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorMarco Polo
  2. contributed toFactMultiple recensions of the book circulate; none is a recovered 1298 autograph
  3. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Multiple recensions of the book circulate; none is a recovered 1298 autograph. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/mp-manuscript-families

https://factrail.ai/facts/mp-manuscript-families

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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