The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453: In the Collections of the American Geographical SocietyWright, John Kirtland
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The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453: In the Collections of the American Geographical Society
Wright, John Kirtland
Early maps; Leardo, Giovanni
110 _pez.mor_(?): Pescamor, CA;=“perhaps Barçelor” (Yule, Cath., i, 309;
iv, 73).
111 _zitabor_: Chintabor, CA;=St. John’s Point (Yule, Cath., i, 309; iv,
64-65).
112 _parzinar_(?): Paychinor, CA;=Barkur (Yule, Cath., i. 309; iv, 73).
Longer Inscriptions
113 _qui predico | san Tom|axo_ (here preached St. Thomas): On the
traditions regarding St. Thomas in India see Yule, Polo, ii. 353-359;
Wright, Lore, 74, 272, 275, 279.
114 _qui nase|le noxe | dindia_ (here grow the nuts of India): In the
Ramusian version of Polo (ii, 354) occurs the following statement in
connection with the shrine of St. Thomas: “The Christians who have
charge of the church have a great number of Indian Nut trees, whereby
they get their living.”
115 _India dixer|ta._
IV. Central Asia
_Mountain_
116 _M^o. caropanus_: Paropanisus Mons, Ptol. (VI, 11:5, etc.
(FA25));=Hindu Kush (Hallb., 393). See also 123.
Rivers
117 _f. Ixartes_: Jaxartis Fl., Ptol. (VI, 12:1, etc. (FA22)); shown but
not named on CE; Flum d’Organçi, CA; see Hallb., 280-281. On ancient and
medieval knowledge of the Aral Sea, into which the Jaxartes flows, see
W. Barthold, Aral, in Encycl. of Islam, Vol. 1, Leiden and London, 1913,
pp. 419-420.
118 _f. Oxius_: Oxus Fl., Ptol. (VI, 9:1, etc. (FA22)); ?Flum Amo, CA;
not shown on CE; see Hallb., 24-26.
119 _f. rius_: Areios or Arius Fl., Ptol. (VI, 17:2 (FA24)); see Hallb.,
25, 47; PW, ii, 623;=?Hari Rud.
Edifices
120 _organa_: ?Dupl. of 121.
121 _organ|zia_: Flum d’Organçi, CA; see Hallb., 547-549; Yule, Cath.,
iii, 82;=Urganj, famous medieval city of Khorasmia on the lower Oxus.
122 _sagom|oa_(?):=?Samarkand (see Hallb., 445-448).
Place Names
123 _paraponixa_; Paropanisades, Ptol. (VI, 18, etc. (FA24));=northern
Afghanistan (Besnier, 573). See also 116.
124 _archuxia_: Arachosia, Ptol. (VI, 20, etc. (FA24));=Afghanistan
(Besnier, 69). See Hallb., 33-34.
125 _arzeglia_: =? See 129.
126 _dragiana_: Drangiana, Ptol. (VI, 19, etc. (FA24));=Seistan (Hallb.,
192).
127 _margana_: Margiana, Ptol. (VI, 10, etc. (FA22));=environs of modern
Merv (Besnier, 464).
128 _archuxia_: Dupl. of 124.
129 _arzegia_: Dupl. of 125.
130 _mesagit_: Massagitae, Ptol. (VI, 10:2 (FA22)); a people of Scythia
mentioned also by Pliny, Solinus, etc. (Hallb., 339-340).
131 _bocasan_: ?Bocar, CA;=Bukhara (Hallb., 79-80).
132 _orcania_: Probably a repetition of 120 and 121; might, however, be
Hyrcania, Ptol. (VI, 9 (FA22)); see Hallb., 253-254;=part of Mazanderan
(Besnier, 376).
133 _samaria_:=?Samarcand (see 122); Hallb., 448, suggests Samaria in
Palestine misplaced, but adds: “pourtant la chose n’est pas probable.”
134 _zagaspia_: Zaraspa, CA; Zariaspa or Zarispa in Bactriana, Ptol.
(VI, 11:7 (FA22));=Balkh (Besnier, 117). See also Kret., Walsp., 385.
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