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Marco Polo sets sail for the Far East. This famous English miniature of about 1400 on folio 218r shows the adventurer boarding a little boat to take him out to the ship anchored in the Venetian lagoon. Though interpreted by an English illuminator, the city of Venice itself is recognizable: the church of San Marco with its four bronze horses and the Palace of the Doges beside it, and the column on the waterfront surmounted by the lion of St Mark.
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