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Chig1

Library: Vatican City - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Shelfmark: Chigi M VII 146

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IIIF Manifest

Physical Description

Support: paper

Height: 29 cm

Date: 1447 (22r)

Folia: 3r-22r

Lines per page: mostly 32 (but ranging from 28 to 40)

Decoration

Text Script: mercantesca

Label Script: humanistic bookhand

Diagrams: yes

Maps: yes

Illumination: no

White Vine Work: no

Relative Quality: fair to good

Editorial Status

Collated: YES

Manuscript Status

This manuscript is not missing

This manuscript is not destroyed

Toponyms in this Manuscript

Folio	Toponyms
13v	Africa (continent) Asia (continent) Europe (continent)
14v	Asia Minor Black Sea Caspian Sea Greater Armenia Sauromate Scythia Tana Tartaria
15r	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 Nile River Ocean Sea Persia Red Sea Sabea Syria Syrian Sea Tigris River
15v	Tower of Babel
18r	Arzilla Ceuta Dellinferno Fez Formentaria Gazola Grand Canary & the Canary Islands Lancilotto Laraccia Messa Morocco Niffe Rabat Safi Sale Zamor
18v	Alcudia Algiers Almeria Arzeu Brisca Cadiz Cartageña Ceuta Hone Malaga Melilla Motzema Orano Salobreña Seren Strait of Gibraltar Tenes
19r	Africa (city) Algiers Angolo Biserti Bona Bugia Cape Bon Sardinia Sicily Stora Susa Tabarca Titelis Tunis Zizari
19v	Africa (city) Alexandria Bernico Cairo (in Babylonia) Cape Bonandrea Cape Rausen Capesse Capulia Damietta Facesse Gulf of Misrata La Rassa Larissa Luco Misurata Nile River Rasamabes Rosetta (River) Tolometta Tripoli (Libya) Tunis Zianara
20r	Acre Alexandretta Ascalon Beirut Bethlehem Caesarea Damascus Dead Sea Galilee Gaza Jaffa Jerusalem Jordan River Laleccia Larissa Mount Lebanon Mount Sinai Mount Zion Nazareth Red Sea Samaria Saretta Sea of Galilee Soldino St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai Tortosa Tripoli (Libya)
20v	Antiochetta Beirut Candeloro Curco Famagusta Laiazzo Laleccia Macri Messi Nicosia Palopolis Rhodes Satalia Tarsus Tortosa
22r	Black Sea Carpi Castelle Copa Fascio River Girisonda Lovati Nicomedia Pezzonda Pontarachia Sea of Tana Sevastopol Simisso Sinope Tana Tana River Trebizond Vatiza