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P. 31
VIen dascciloccho unbraccio dalto mare
che percolore difondo edetto rosso
checiento miglia largho quasi appare
lungho e disteso amisura dunfosso
etorto comuno archo eviene a fare
suotermine econfine sopraldosso
delchayro dibanbillonia tre giornate
dovebbe faraone lesue derrate
Datramontana diquestasia grande
tartari sono sotto la freddazona
giente bestiale di leggi eddivivande
findove londa del bachu rinsuona
perquesta terra ungram fiume sispande
chedaltri due edile e tiro sadona
elpiu deltempo elfreddo loncristalla
edevisu lagram citta disalla
Eldetto fiume mette inungram seno
dacqua salata chiuso daongni banda
ditanto giro pocho piu homeno
quanto cha ilmar maggiore lasuo gherlanda
daluno alaltro mare aditerreno
otto giornate equasi adranda adranda
sta dallevante dritto eddiquagiu
lagran ciptta sinoma dalbachu
[Image: Right and lower margins, a map of Asia Minor and the Levant as far as Egypt, continued from fol. 15v. Labels left to right and top to bottom: in left gutter (label: [a]rca [di]noe), and the city of (label: Nineve), with the Tigris, here (label: fiume nillo) with cities (label: baldac) and (label: Caldea) along it, flowing into the (label: arabico sinus). Below the Nile/Tigris, the river (label: Eufrates) and the city of (label: babillonia) along the Arabian Gulf, with Mecca (label: lameche) on the peninsula between the Gulf and the Red Sea (label: .M. rosso), with (label: Arabia) beyond. At bottom, the coast of the Mediterranean, with (label: damasco), (label: Monte libano), (label: Giudea), (label: gierusalem), the real Nile (label: fiume nillo), and a second city labeled (label: babillonia), actually Cairo/Fustat. Bodies of water have been painted in grey-green, with the exception of the Red Sea which has been painted in red. Each city on this map has been labeled in black and is accompanied by a depiction of a fortification. Two of the fortifications, specifically Caldea and the first babillonia, are flying the flag of St. George. There is a scribal note (note: Az) directing the artist to paint the bodies of water in azzurro (blue) at the top of the peninsula above the Red Sea. However, the pigment used appears to be more a grey-green than blue.]
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