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

Date: 1300

## The fact

From around 1300 the book exists in diverging recensions. No 1298 autograph is used here. Later libraries hold copies [Polo](/people/marco-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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [personal-data-protection](/drivers/personal-data-protection) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: BnF — Devisement du monde manuscript heritage (https://www.bnf.fr/; Bibliothèque nationale de France).

## Significance

Worsening textual-opacity path. Complex. High confidence that recensions diverge. The welfare reading on this path is worsening. Readers checking this Fact should open both named URLs for Multiple recensions of the book circulate; none is a recovered 1298 autograph.

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

## What is established and what is not

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. Do not treat each manuscript as a new lifetime act. 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.

The attached driver is personal-data-protection. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Marco Polo: https://factrail.ai/people/marco-polo

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://www.bnf.fr/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marco-Polo

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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