The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453: In the Collections of the American Geographical Society — John Shaqi
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
581 _f. netur_: Flū Nectir, CE; Fl. Vectur, CD;=Motala, outlet of Lake
Vettern (Hamy, 387).
582 _f. turontes_: Turuntus Fl. in Sarmatia, Ptol. (III, 5:2
(FA9));=Dvina (Müller, i, 412).
Longer Legends
583 _in q_[uesta par] _te si caualca su zervi_ | _tori et montoni et su
queli fano le_ | _loro bataie_ (in this region they ride on deer, bulls,
and sheep, and on these they make their battles): Compare legend on CE
(Kret., CE, 214).
584 _In questa parte sta zente che non uide_ | _Il sole 4 mexe de lano_
(in this region there are people who do not see the sun for four months
of the year): Santarem (iii, 409, note 2) suggests a relation between
this and a passage in Jordanis, De rebus Geticis (Monumenta Germaniae
historica, Auctorum antiquissimorum, Vol. 5, Part 1, Berlin, 1882, p.
58) descriptive of the Adogitae of Scanzia, who enjoy uninterrupted
sunshine for forty days and darkness for an equal period each year (see
also Fridtjof Nansen, In Northern Mists, New York, 1911, i, 130-134).
Place Names
585 _nouega_: =Norway.
586 _sechamor_: Scamor, CD;=Skanör (Hamy, 426).
587 _scarsa_: Scarsa, CD:=Skaraborg (Hamy, 383).
588 _zedina_: ?Andine, CD, which is possibly “nundinae,” with reference
to the fairs of Skanör and Valsterbode (Hamy, 385).
589 _selandia_: =?Zealand, misplaced. See Nansen, Northern Mists, ii,
219.
590 _suzia_: Suecia, CD;=Sweden (Hamy, 383, 426).
591 _stochi_: Stocol, CD; Stocoll, CE;=Stockholm (Hamy, 386, 427).
592 _Erma_: ?Kalma, CD;=Kalmar (Hamy, 386, 427).
593 _sadezeflingt_(?): Suderpigel, CD; Sudechping, CE;=Söderköping
(Hamy, 387, 427).
594 _saglat_: Asillang, CE; Assingland on fourteenth century map in
Museo Borbonico, Naples (Hamy, 427);=?
595 _roder_|_in_: Roderin, CD; CE;=Roden, ancient name for the east
coast of Sweden;=Rosladen (Hamy, 387, 427).
XXIII. Eastern Europe
Mountains
596 _M^o. ripei_: Dupl. of 2.
Rivers
597 Leardo’s unnamed river entering E extremity of Baltic is called Flum
Nu on CD; Flum de Mi, CE;=Volkhof and Neva, confused (Hamy, 390).
598 _f. axiazes_: Axiaces Fl. of Sarmatia Europae, Ptol. (III, 5:18
(FA9)).
599 _f. turllo_: Kretschmer (Port., 642) records Flumen Turle only on an
anonymous fifteenth century map in the Museum für Meereskunde, Berlin
(ibid., pp. 133-135);=Dniester (ibid., 642).
Edifices
(A) North of Neva
600 _zimachia Inferior_: ?corruption of Sarmatia, Ptol. (passim (FA9)).
See also 12.
601 _rosia_: =Russia.
(B) Between Don, Neva, and Black Sea
602 _Lordo_, applying to a group of tents;=the Golden Horde of Tatars
(Hallb., 318-319).
603 _nogard_|_ia_: Nogorado, CD; Nogorodo, CE;=Novgorod (Hamy, 390).
604 _alana_: Allania, CA;=the Alans (Hallb., 13-14).
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