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[rubric: Piu mari]

¶ Questa montagna e tanto grande e tale
Che vede l’oceano a l’oriente
Il mare caldeo e d’india ad australe
E vede quel de siria a l'occidente
E quel de trebixonda e d'australe
E quel de persia che gli'e presente
E vede tuta a siria e la caldea
E da sirocho terra de sabbea

[rubric: Ninive baldach]

¶ Vede dove fue l’anticha gran citade
De ninive insul tigris che fu prima
Donna d’imperio e di molte contrade
Puoco pui ultre dol dove'l fiume adima
Sta hora Baldach e piu la ove cade
In mar il fiume vede l’alta cima
Che la gran torre che Nembroth fe
Do poi il diluvio del’archa di noe

[rubric: Mare de india .]

¶ Il lito del mar d’india a man sinestra
Venendo in su verso l’oriente
Col litto del'egypto da man dextra
Sono in un fillo drito equalmente
Presso a quel litto fu la gran palestra
Di superbi giganti ove la gente
Tanti lenguaçi parla e si se vede
Anchora l’alta torre drita in piede

[rubric, in alternating red and blue letters, enclosed in black ink box tinted yellow: ~ ⸫ TORE : DE : MABEL ⸫ ~]

[image, right margin and bas de page: Five-storey tower, tinted reddish-brown, sitting on green grass dotted with green trees. On the rampart walk: a green snake and a green wyvern, wings folded, with red beard and crest or cockscomb. At ground level: two further wyverns, both green, one with wings spread and extending its red tongue; the other with wings folded and either extending its red tongue or breathing fire.]

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regisrob

Image still needs a more precise description...

mpkeane

ln 5: Not sure about the geography here. I'm taking "oriente" as directional, rather than as "The Orient". "Mare caldeo" seems to be the Chaldean Sea, which now the Persian Gulf; I'm presuming "d'india" = "mare d'india" (Indian Sea, i.e. Indian Ocean), not "da India" = from India"; and "mare australe" = South Seas, rather than the Southern Ocean, ie Antartic

mpkeane

ln 7-9: referenced the edition because there seem to be a number of scribal errors

Laura K. Morreale LLC

Look back and make sure that Mare d'India = Sea of India, not Indian Ocean.