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¶ Quest'altra bocca ha di largo due miglia
E venti ad aquilone dura 'l canale
E giunge al mar magiore dove si piglia
Segondo il lito verso orientale
Una costiera novecento miglia
Che'nsino a trabisonda sum sue scalle
Carpi poi penderachia e samastoe
Castelle senoppi -e- Simissoe

¶ E sum dal'uno al'altro miglia cento
Uno per l'altro e qual men e qual piu
Cusi dal'altro mare anche sum cento
Sum da la Jacia insino da rodi giu
E dal'un mar al'altro quatrocento
E questo quadro antichamente fu
Dicto asia minor e dentro a se
Havea molte provencie e multi Re.

¶ Nel capo quasi d'esto quadro sta
Il monte thauro ch'e molto nominato
Il qual due corna ver ponente fa
Che vegon lungo l'uno e l'atro lato
Nel meço d'epso e ogi gran cita
Savasto ove'l el gran turcho sta honorato
Al pori di simisso da tramontana
E quasi al tarso da meridiana

[image, top and right margins and bas de page: Map of the southeastern Black Sea coast. Ocean painted aquamarine with wave pattern in grey, and a small, red horseshoe-shaped island at top. Bas de page, on a tributary flowing leftwards from the waters: a fortified city surrounding a church, all tinted reddish-brown with blue roofs and domes with yellow-tinted crosses. Below the city, in alternating red and blue, a caption proclaims (label: CONSTANTINOPOLI); above the dome, in red ink: (label: Sancta sophia). To the right, on the coastline, (label: Costantinopoli) and (label: perra) are given in red ink. Location names along the fore-edge coastline, in red ink (from upper margin, clockwise): (label: Peccionda), (label: Savastopoli), (label: Fascio), (label: Lovati), (label: trabisonda), (label: Chirizonda), (label: Vatiza), (label: Simissoe), (label: Sinopi), (label: Chastelle), (label: Samastoe), (label: pendarchia), (label: Tarpi), (label: nichomodia).]

This other mouth is two miles wide
and winds from the northwest last/blow (the length of?) the canal
and reach the Black Sea (Mar Maggiore), where you take it (?),
following the bank towards the west.
A coastline nine hundred miles (long)
that ends at Trabisonda^{1Trabzon, Turkey} are their series (of cities?):
Carpi^{2Kerpe. This city is the first in a series of former Genovese colonies in Anatolia, now Turkey.} , then Penderachia ^{2 Karadeniz Ereğli)} and Samastoe
Castelli (?), Senoppi (?), and Simisso^{*Samsun, Turkey}

And it is a hundred miles from one to the other,
one by one, it is a little more or a little less.
Thus, from the other sea there are also six hundred [>>>secento] [miles]
from there, Jacinta (?), until down to Rhodes,
it is four hundred (miles) from one sea to the other.
And in ancient times this square (?) was
called Asia Minor, and around it
there were many provences and many kings.

Almost at the top of this square is
Mount Taurus, that is what many called it,
which made two peaks toward the west
that go across one [side] and [to?] the other side.
In the middle of them today is a great city,
Savasto ^{*Sivas, Turkey}, where the Great Turk is honored.
At the ... (?) of Simisso ^{*Samsun, Turkey}from

¶ Quest'altra bocca ha di largo due miglia
E venti ad aquilone dura 'l canale
E giunge al mar magiore dove si piglia
Segondo il lito verso orientale
Una costiera novecento miglia
Che'nsino a trabisonda sum sue scalle
Carpi poi penderachia e samastoe
Castelle senoppi -e- Simissoe

¶ E sum dal'uno al'altro miglia cento
Uno per l'altro e qual men e qual piu
Cusi dal'altro mare anche sum cento
Sum da la Jacia insino da rodi giu
E dal'un mar al'altro quatrocento
E questo quadro antichamente fu
Dicto asia minor e dentro a se
Havea molte provencie e multi Re.

¶ Nel capo quasi d'esto quadro sta
Il monte thauro ch'e molto nominato
Il qual due corna ver ponente fa
Che vegon lungo l'uno e l'atro lato
Nel meço d'epso e ogi gran cita
Savasto ove'l el gran turcho sta honorato
Al pori di simisso da tramontana
E quasi al tarso da meridiana

[image, top and right margins and bas de page: Map of the southeastern Black Sea coast. Ocean painted aquamarine with wave pattern in grey, and a small, red horseshoe-shaped island at top. Bas de page, on a tributary flowing leftwards from the waters: a fortified city surrounding a church, all tinted reddish-brown with blue roofs and domes with yellow-tinted crosses. Below the city, in alternating red and blue, a caption proclaims (label: CONSTANTINOPOLI); above the dome, in red ink: (label: Sancta sophia). To the right, on the coastline, (label: Costantinopoli) and (label: perra) are given in red ink. Location names along the fore-edge coastline, in red ink (from upper margin, clockwise): (label: Peccionda), (label: Savastopoli), (label: Fascio), (label: Lovati), (label: trabisonda), (label: Chirizonda), (label: Vatiza), (label: Simissoe), (label: Sinopi), (label: Chastelle), (label: Samastoe), (label: pendarchia), (label: Tarpi), (label: nichomodia).]

This other mouth is two miles wide
and winds from the northwest last/blow (the length of?) the canal
and reach the Black Sea (Mar Maggiore), where you take it (?),
following the bank towards the west.
A coastline nine hundred miles (long)
that ends at Trabisonda^{1Trabzon, Turkey} are their series (of cities?):
Carpi^{2Kerpe. This city is the first in a series of former Genovese colonies in Anatolia, now Turkey.} , then Penderachia ^{2 Karadeniz Ereğli)} and Samastoe
Castelli (?), Senoppi (?), and Simisso^{*Samsun, Turkey}

And it is a hundred miles from one to the other,
one by one, it is a little more or a little less.
Thus, from the other sea there are also six hundred [>>>secento] [miles]
from there, Jacinta (?), until down to Rhodes,
it is four hundred (miles) from one sea to the other.
And in ancient times this square (?) was
called Asia Minor, and around it
there were many provences and many kings.

Almost at the top of this square is
Mount Taurus, that is what many called it,
which made two peaks toward the west
that go across one [side] and [to?] the other side.
In the middle of them today is a great city,
Savasto,