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¶ Seguitan poi vaticia e chirisonda
Di cento in cento miglia inver levante
Segondo illico e poi trabisonda
E quivi muove un archo revoltante
In dirimpecto la ove peçionda
Che da l'un capo a l'altro distante
Ducencinquanta miglia e a girare
Piu cento miglia sarebbeno a fare

¶ Lovati e fascio due fiumi piu su
Fra terra vengon per la circassia
E piu a levante il mar di bachu
E la cita d'organci e Samachia
E a tornar per dicto litto in giu
Savastopoli trovi in quella via
E poi peççonda e poi trecento miglia
Dove 'l canal de lata si piglia

¶ Il dicto litto torna inver ponente
Il canal dicto verso tramontana
Poi seguon ducento miglia ritamente
In verso greco e trovasi la tana
E donde ci movemo primamente
Questa -e- la piu lunga e la piu strana
Dove si navichi e finissi qui
L'asia magiore al fiume tanai.

¶ Deo gratias amen.

[image, left margin: Map depicting the northern coast of the Black Sea painted in aquamarine with grey waves, though heavily abraded, with the Crimean peninsula and the Sea of Azov. The coastline is highlighted in yellow and a grey island sits at the bottom of the sea near ¶3 (label: Chaffa). A reddish-brown city with blue domes and spires (label: LATANA) sits to the left of the lower section of the sea, connected by an aquamarine river. Placenames in red ink, from bottom to top, counterclockwise: (label: Chaffa), (label: Chamariam), (label: LATANA), (label: Mauro lacho), (label: pecionda), (label: Savastopoli).]

[image, right margin at ¶ 2: Institutional stamp. A circle within a circle, in black ink. Inner circle infilled with the charge: An Eagle? regardant, wings asplay and inverted, crowned. Between inner and outer circle (clockwise from 7 o'clock to between 4 and 5 o'clock): (label: BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L'ARSENAL) with illegible character at 6 o'clock position.]

Then Vaticia^{1Now Fatsa, Turkey.} and Girisonda^{2Now Giresun, Turkey.} follow [Simisso]^{3Here Dati returns to his itinerary along the coast of the Black Sea.},
a hundred miles and a hundred miles more to the east—
then Illico^{3Now ???, Turkey.}and Trebizond.
From this point [the coastline] starts to turn in an arc
until it reaches Pezzonda.^{4Now Pitsunda, Georgia.}
From one point to the other is a distance of
two hundred fifty miles, but to go around^{5I.e., hugging the coastline}
would be a hundred miles longer.

The rivers of Lo Vati^{5Now Batumi, Georgia.} and Fascio^{6The Rioni river, in Georgia} are both up there;
they flow through the land of Circassia^{7The Caucasus.}
and off to the east is the Caspian Sea^{8Mar di Baku}
with the cities of Urgenj^{9Now Konye-Urgench} and Samachia^{10Now Shamakhi}.
But to go back to the coastline we were discussing,
you will find Sebastopol^{11Sukhumi, not the more famous Sevastopol in the Crimea} along that route,
then Pezzonda, and three hundred miles [later]
you find the strait of Lata^{12The Strait of Kerch, check this}.

Where the coastline turns back to the west,
the aforesaid strait [goes] north.
If you follow it two hundred miles straight
towards the northeast, you will find Tana.
From where we started our trip at the beginning
this is the furthest and most foreign [place]
that you can sail to—and here
at the Tana^{13the Don River} river, Asia Major ^{14Another name for the Caucasus region}ends.

Thanks be to God. AMEN.

¶ Seguitan poi vaticia e chirisonda
Di cento in cento miglia inver levante
Segondo illico e poi trabisonda
E quivi muove un archo revoltante
In dirimpecto la ove peçionda
Che da l'un capo a l'altro distante
Ducencinquanta miglia e a girare
Piu cento miglia sarebbeno a fare

¶ Lovati e fascio due fiumi piu su
Fra terra vengon per la circassia
E piu a levante il mar di bachu
E la cita d'organci e Samachia
E a tornar per dicto litto in giu
Savastopoli trovi in quella via
E poi peççonda e poi trecento miglia
Dove 'l canal de lata si piglia

¶ Il dicto litto torna inver ponente
Il canal dicto verso tramontana
Poi seguon ducento miglia ritamente
In verso greco e trovasi la tana
E donde ci movemo primamente
Questa -e- la piu lunga e la piu strana
Dove si navichi e finissi qui
L'asia magiore al fiume tanai.

¶ Deo gratias amen.

[image, left margin: Map depicting the northern coast of the Black Sea painted in aquamarine with grey waves, though heavily abraded, with the Crimean peninsula and the Sea of Azov. The coastline is highlighted in yellow and a grey island sits at the bottom of the sea near ¶3 (label: Chaffa). A reddish-brown city with blue domes and spires (label: LATANA) sits to the left of the lower section of the sea, connected by an aquamarine river. Placenames in red ink, from bottom to top, counterclockwise: (label: Chaffa), (label: Chamariam), (label: LATANA), (label: Mauro lacho), (label: pecionda), (label: Savastopoli).]

[image, right margin at ¶ 2: Institutional stamp. A circle within a circle, in black ink. Inner circle infilled with the charge: An Eagle? regardant, wings asplay and inverted, crowned. Between inner and outer circle (clockwise from 7 o'clock to between 4 and 5 o'clock): (label: BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L'ARSENAL) with illegible character at 6 o'clock position.]

Then Vaticia^{1Now Fatsa, Turkey.} and Girisonda^{2Now Giresun, Turkey.} follow [Simisso^{3Here Dati returns to his itinerary along the coast of the Black Sea.}],
a hundred miles and a hundred miles more to the east—
then Illico and Trebizond.
From this point [the coastline] starts to turn in an arc
until it reaches Pezzonda.
From one point to the other is a distance of
250 miles and to go around [by the coast]
would require a hundred miles more.

The rivers of Lo Vati^5Batumi and Fascio^{6the Rioni river} are both up there;
they flow through the land of Circassia^{7the Caucasus}
and off to the east is the Caspian Sea^{8Mar di Baku}
with the cities of Urgenj^{9now Konye-Urgench} and Samachia^10Shamakhi.
But to return to the aforementioned coastline,
you will find Sebastopol^{11Sukhumi, not the more famous Sevastopol in the Crimea} along that route,
then Pezzonda, and three hundred miles [later]
you find the strait of Lata^{12Kerch, check this}.

Where the aforesaid coastline turns back to the west,
the aforesaid strait [goes] north,
then follow two hundred miles straight
towards the northeast and you will find Tana.
And from where we started our trip at the beginning
this is the furthest and strangest [place]
that you can sail to and here
at the Tana^{13the Don River} river, Asia Major ^{14Another name for the Caucasus region}ends.

Thanks be to God. AMEN.