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Library: Vatican City - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Shelfmark: Borg. lat. 539

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IIIF Manifest

Physical Description

Support: paper

Height: 28 cm

Date: mid-15c

Folia: 1r–24v

Lines per page: 24

Decoration

Text Script: cute mercantesca

Label Script: same, with some humanistic bookhand

Diagrams: yes

Maps: yes

Illumination: no

White Vine Work: no

Relative Quality: fair to good

Editorial Status

Manuscript Status

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This manuscript is not destroyed

Toponyms in this Manuscript

Folio	Toponyms
15v	Africa (continent) Asia (continent) Europe (continent)
16v	Asia Minor Black Sea Caspian Sea Greater Armenia Sauromate Scythia Tana Tartaria
17r	Arabia Babylon, Babylonia Cairo (in Babylonia) Chaldea Damascus Egypt Ethiopia Euphrates River Greater Armenia India Indian Sea Jordan River Judea Mesopotamia Mount Ararat Mount Sinai Ocean Sea Persia Red Sea Sabea Syria Syrian Sea Tigris River
20r	Arzilla Ceuta Dellinferno Fez Formentaria Gazola Grand Canary & the Canary Islands Lancilotto Laraccia Messa Morocco Niffe Rabat Safi Sale Zamor
20v	Alcudia Algiers Almeria Arzeu Brisca Cadiz Cartageña Ceuta Hone Malaga Melilla Motzema Orano Salobreña Seren Tenes
21r	Africa (city) Algiers Angolo Biserti Bona Bugia Cape Bon Sicily Stora Susa Tabarca Titelis Tunis Zizari
21v	Africa (city) Bernico Cape Bonandrea Cape Rausen Capesse Capulia Facesse Gulf of Misrata Luco Misurata Rasamabes Tolometta Tripoli (Libya) Tunis Zianara
22r	Alexandria Cairo (in Babylonia) Damietta Foa La Rassa Larissa Luco Nile River Rosetta (River)
22v	Acre Alexandretta Ascalon Beirut Bethlehem Caesarea Damascus Dead Sea Galilee Gaza Jaffa Jerusalem Jordan River Judea Laiazzo Laleccia Larissa Mount Lebanon Mount Sinai Mount Zion Nazareth Red Sea Samaria Saretta Sea of Galilee Soldino St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai Tortosa Tripoli (Syria)
23r	Antiochetta Beirut Candeloro Curco Cyprus Famagusta Laiazzo Laleccia Macri Messi Nicosia Palopolis Rhodes Satalia Tarsus Tortosa
24r	Alto Luogo Aveo Chios Foia Hellespont Imbros Landermitti Lango Lesmirre Messi Mytilene Rhodes Samos Tenedos Troy
24v	Aveo Diaschilo Gallipoli Nicomedia Palolimen Paris Tenedos
25r	Black Sea Carpi Castelle Fascio River Girisonda Lovati Pezzonda Pontarachia Samastro Sevastopol Simisso Sinope Trebizond Vatiza
25v	Copa Sea of Tana Tana Tana River