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Library: Chicago - Newberry Library

Shelfmark: Ayer Map 1

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IIIF Manifest

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Physical Description

Support: parchment

Height: 29 cm

Date: 1450-60

Folia: full MS (24ff)

Lines per page: 24

Decoration

Text Script: humanistic bookhand

Label Script: cancelleresca

Diagrams: yes

Maps: yes

Illumination: yes

White Vine Work: yes

Relative Quality: deluxe

Editorial Status

Collated: YES

Manuscript Status

This manuscript is not missing

This manuscript is not destroyed

Toponyms in this Manuscript

Folio	Toponyms
14v	Africa (continent) Asia (continent) Europe (continent)
15v	Asia Minor Black Sea Caspian Sea Greater Armenia Sauromate Scythia Tana Tartaria
16r	Arabia Babylon, Babylonia Baghdad Cairo (in Babylonia) Chaldea Damascus Egypt Ethiopia Euphrates River Gihon River Greater Armenia India Indian Sea Jordan River Judea Mecca Mesopotamia Mount Ararat Mount Sinai Nile River Nineveh Ocean Sea Persia Red Sea Sabea Syria Syrian Sea Tauris Tigris River
19r	Arzilla Ceuta Dellinferno Fez Formentaria Gazola Grand Canary & the Canary Islands Lancilotto Laraccia Messa Niffe Rabat Safi Sale Zamor
19v	Alcudia Algiers Almeria Arzeu Brisca Cadiz Cartageña Ceuta Hone Malaga Melilla Mine Mostaganem Orano Salobreña Seren Strait of Gibraltar Tenes
20r	Africa (city) Algiers Angolo Biserti Bona Bugia Cape Bon Sardinia Sicily Stora Susa Tabarca Titelis Tunis Zizari
20v	Africa (city) Cape Bonandrea Cape Rausen Capesse Capulia Facesse Luco Misurata Rasamabes Tolometta Tripoli (Libya) Tunis
21r	Alexandria Bernico Cairo (in Babylonia) Damietta Foa Gulf of Misrata La Rassa Larissa Luco Nile River Rosetta (River) Zianara
21v	Acre Alexandretta Ascalon Beirut 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) Tyre
22r	Antiochetta Beirut Candeloro Curco Cyprus Famagusta Laiazzo Laleccia Macri Messi Nicosia Palopolis Rhodes Satalia Tarsus Tortosa
23r	Alto Luogo Aveo Chios Foia Hellespont Imbros Landermitti Lango Lesmirre Messi Mytilene Rhodes Samos Tenedos Troy
23v	Aveo Diaschilo Gallipoli Nicomedia Palolimen Paris Tenedos
24r	Black Sea Carpi Castelle Fascio River Girisonda Lovati Nicomedia Pezzonda Pontarachia Samastro Sevastopol Simisso Sinope Trebizond Vatiza
24v	Copa Sea of Tana Tana Tana River