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This paper presents a new codicological, palaeographical, and textual analysis of ms. E. V. 8 from the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria of Turin. It is a composite manuscript consisting in three units, the first of which, datable to the 14th century, is a miscellany. It consists of five texts: a universal chronicle, a treatise on eastern religious and ethnic groups, a treatise on the Tartars, a treatise on the Saracens, a description of the world. The sources of these texts, their adaptation, and the logic presiding their collection are investigated.