Mount Ararat
- Modern name
- Mount Ararat
- Modern country
- Turkey
- Coordinates
- 39.7, 44.3
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364046
Mount Ararat, which is located in the Armenian Mountains (Taurus), is traditionally understood as the place where Noah's Ark came to rest after the Great Flood. Most of the references to it in La sfera simply refer to it as Arca or Arca Noe, although Ararad also appears.
This toponym does not appear in the poem, only on the maps accompanying it.
Map of the location M018
Variant spellings of Mount Ararat in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| [A]rcha denoe | Tre |
| Ararad | Con3 |
| arca [dinoe] | Laur3 |
| arca di noe | Cs1, New, Vat2 |
| ARCA DI NOE | Ricc17 |
| ArcA dinoe | Ricc9 |
| ARCA DINOE | NYPL2 |
| arca dinoe | Ashb3, Fn9, MB, Med3 |
| Arca dinoe | Par3, Wie1 |
| arca noe | Barb3, Chig2, He2, Magl2, NB, Ricc12, Ricc8, Urb1 |
| Arca noe | BL01, Clas2, Con4, Fo, Morg, Pnc4, Ricc14, To2, Vat3 |
| ARCA NOE | BL02 |
| arcad(i)noe | Spe |
| arcadi noe | Marc1 |
| Archa | Pad1 |
| Archa de noe | Ashb6, Par4 |
| archa denoe | Bos |
| Archa di noe | Fn6, NYPL1, Pal5, Ricc11, Ricc13, Ricc6, Urb2, Yale4 |
| archa di noe | He3, Laur5, ME2, Par1, Pnc3, Ricc15, Ro2 |
| Archa di Noe | Med1 |
| archa dino[...] | Pnc5 |
| ARCHA dinoe | Fn8 |
| archa dinoe | Bal, Barb4, Cors2, Fn3, NYPL3, Pal6, Pal8, Parm2 |
| Archa dinoe | Cap1, Con3, Luc2 |
| Archa Noe | He1 |
| archa noe | Ashb4, Borg |
| Archa noe | Con1 |
| archadinoe | Marc2 |
| ARHA NOE | Ricc1 |
| Atranoe | Chig1 |
| Monte erminio | Par4 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Mount Ararat.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/mount-ararat/.