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
605 _albana_: Albania, NW of Caspian Sea, Ptol. (V, 12 (FA18)); see
Hallb., 14-15;=Shirvan and Daghestan (Besnier, 29).
606 _br . . ica_(?): Branchicha, CA; Brancica, Piz.;=Briansk (Hamy,
392).
607 _brachi_|_at_: ?Dupl. of 606.
608 _bthnia_: =?Bothnia.
609 _rossia_: Dupl. of 601.
610 _transil_|_uana_: =Transylvania, misplaced.
Place Names
(A) Crimean Peninsula
611 _gotia_: =“A small stretch of land between the Yaila Range and the
coast, in the hands of the Genoese after the fourteenth century” (Kret.,
Port., 643); see also Yule, Polo, ii, 492.
612 _soldaia_: =Sudak, important trading post in Genoese hands after
1365 (ibid., 644).
613 _gafa_: =Kafa, Feodosia (ibid.).
614 _soronti_(?): =?
615 _uospe_|_ro_: =Kerch (ibid.).
(B) At Eastern End of the Baltic.
616 _piaha_(?): =?Pinsk.
617 _letefa_|_n_ _paga_|_n_: Litefanie Pagans, CA;=Lithuania (Hamy,
398-399).
(C) On Lake at Headwaters of Neva, Don, and Volga
618 _perana_: Perum, CA; CE=Murom (Hamy, 394).
XXIV. Far North
619 _DIXERTO DEXABITADO PER FREDO_ (desert uninhabited because of cold):
See 305.
LIST OF REFERENCES
The publications listed here are those to which frequent reference only
is made in the Notes and Appendix. The abbreviations there employed
precede each reference.
Besnier: Maurice Besnier, _Lexique de géographie ancienne_, Paris, 1914.
Buchon and Tastu: J. A. C. Buchon and J. Tastu, _Notice d’un atlas en
langue catalane, manuscrit de l’an 1375, conservé parmi les manuscrits
de la Bibliothèque Royale sous le N^o 6816, fonds ancien, in-folio
maximo_, in _Notices et extraits de manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi
et autres bibliothèques_, Vol. 14, Paris, 1841, pp. 1-152.
Only complete transcription and commentary on the Catalan Atlas. See
CA.
CA: Catalan Atlas (i. e. map divided into six parchment sheets) of 1375;
sometimes called Catalan Atlas of Charles V, to whose library it
belonged. Facsimile in: _Choix de documents géographiques conservés à la
Bibliothèque Nationale_, Paris, 1883.
See Kret., Port., pp. 123-124; Buchon and Tastu; Cordier, CA.
CD: Map of Angellino Dulcert, 1339. See E. T. Hamy, _La mappemonde
d’Angelino Dulcert, de Majorque_ (1339), 2nd edition, Paris, 1903 (with
photographic reproduction).
See Kret., Port., pp. 118-119.
CE: Catalan map of fifteenth century in Biblioteca Estense, Modena.
Colored reproduction accompanying Konrad Kretschmer, _Die Katalanische
Weltkarte der Biblioteca Estense zu Modena_, in _Zeitschr. Gesell. für
Erdkunde zu Berlin_, Vol. 32, 1897, pp. 65-111, 191-218 (=Kret., CE).
Photographic reproduction in F. L. Pullé, _Studi italiani di filologia
indo-iranica_, Vol. 5, Atlas, Florence, 1905.
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