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toutes dun grant. Si convendroit trop longue narration
qui de toutes voldroit descripre la granduer et pour tant
nous en passerons plus au brief. Touteffoiz je vous ad
vertiz et certiffie de tant que nulle nen a si petite pour
tant que len la puist veoir quelle ne soit plus grande
que toute la terre nest. Mais il nen ya nulle par si gran
de comme est le soleil ne si reluisante. Car il enlumine
toutes les aultres par sa beaulte qui tant est noble et
fine. De la terre jusques au ciel ou les estoilles sont as
sisez amont. Car il ya dix mil foiz autant et cincquante
cincq foiz plus comme toute la terre a despoiz. Et qui scet
compter apres le nombre et la fourme si poeut trouver
quants pouces il ya de la main dun homme et quans
pies et quants pas et quantes lieues et quantes mi
les et quantes destres et quantes journees il ya jus
ques au ciel. Mais tant en ya que se ung homme y
povoit aler la droitte voye sans soy arrester et que
chascun jour il pevist franchement aler vingtcincz
miles et sans fair nul sejour avant seroit passe le
temps de sept mil cent et cincquante ans et sept et de
my avec ainchois quil eult fait autant de chemin

all the same size. It would take too long a narration
to describe all about the size, and so we will
go through it only briefly. Still I warn you and
confirm that even the smallest of them that can be seen
is still bigger than the whole earth. Yet none of them
is as large as the sun, nor as luminous. For the sun lights up
all the others with its beauty, so noble and fine.
From the earth to the sky where the stars are is quite a
height. For they are ten thousand and fifty-five times
further than the thickness of the earth. And anyone
who knows how to count according to number and
form can discover how many inches of a man's hand
there are and how many feet and how many steps and
how many leagues and how many miles and how many
yards (see note) and how many days' journey it is from here to the
sky. Indeed it is so far that if a single man
could go there by a straight path without stopping,
and if he could go directly for twenty-five miles a day,
without taking any rest at all, it wil take him
7,157 1/2 years before he will have gone far enough

toutes dun grant. Si convendroit trop longue narration
qui de toutes voldroit descripre la granduer et pour tant
nous en passerons plus au brief. Touteffoiz je vous ad
vertiz et certiffie de tant que nulle nen a si petite pour
tant que len la puist veoir quelle ne soit plus grande
que toute la terre nest. Mais il nen ya nulle par si gran
de comme est le soleil ne si reluisante. Car il enlumine
toutes les aultres par sa beaulte qui tant est noble et
fine. De la terre jusques au ciel ou les estoilles sont as
sisez amont. Car il ya dix mil foiz autant et cincquante
cincq foiz plus comme toute la terre a despoiz. Et qui scet
compter apres le nombre et la fourme si poeut trouver
quants pouces il ya de la main dun homme et quans
pies et quants pas et quantes lieues et quantes mi
les et quantes destres et quantes journees il ya jus
ques au ciel. Mais tant en ya que se ung homme y
povoit aler la droitte voye sans soy arrester et que
chascun jour il pevist franchement aler vingtcincz
miles et sans fair nul sejour avant seroit passe le
temps de sept mil cent et cincquante ans et sept et de
my avec ainchois quil eult fait autant de chemin

all the same size. It would take too long a narration
to describe all about the size, and so we will
go through it only briefly. Still I warn you and
confirm that even the smallest of them that can be seen is so small
is still still bigger than the whole earth. Yet none of them
is as large as the sun, nor as luminous. For the sun lights up
all the others with its beauty, so noble and fine.
From the earth to the sky where the stars are is quite a
height. For they are ten thousand and fifty-five times
further than the thickness of the earth. And anyone
who knows how to count according to the number and
the form can discover how many inches of a man's hand
there are and how many feet and how many steps and
how many leagues and how many miles and how many
ells (?) and how many days' journey it is from here to the
sky. Indeed it is so much that if a single man
could go there by a straight path without stopping,
and if he could go directly for twenty-five miles a day,
without taking any rest at all, it wil take him
7,157 1/2 years before he will have gone far enough