# No Chinese autograph itinerary by Polo is used as causal source in this catalog

Date: 1295

## The fact

This catalog uses no Chinese autograph itinerary in [Polo](/people/marco-polo)'s hand. The public file is later European recension. Gazetteers mentioning similar routes are not his diary. Marco Polo's documented role is: The surviving public file is European-language recension.

## Context

Sharing later Chinese geography with Yuan and Ming compilers, not with Polo's pen, is required. The setting of No Chinese autograph itinerary by Polo is used as causal source in this catalog is the public file around 1295-06-01. 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

Britannica independently treats Il Milione as the main Polo source. Official carrier: Project Gutenberg — Travels as the public European file (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10636; Project Gutenberg). Independent carrier: Britannica — sources for Polo (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marco-Polo; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Project Gutenberg — Travels as the public European file (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10636; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Worsening source-ceiling path. Complex. High confidence on the absence of an autograph diary here. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

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

## What is established and what is not

Established: no autograph Chinese itinerary used here. Not established: that he wrote one now lost. Established: a sourced public record of No Chinese autograph itinerary by Polo is used as causal source in this catalog under 1295-06-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not fill the gap with Wikipedia. Mixed effects of No Chinese autograph itinerary by Polo is used as causal source in this catalog 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 No Chinese autograph itinerary by Polo is used as causal source in this catalog. Naming Marco Polo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1295-06-01 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.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10636
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marco-Polo

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mp-no-chinese-autograph