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Description: ff. 1v-2. [World map from Francesco Berlinghieri's Geographia]. One engraved world map extracted from the incunable Francesco Berlinghieri's Geographia; hand colored with gold leaf border, nomenclature overtraced in color or gold; some water damage. ff. 3v-54. [Portolan atlas]: ff. 3v-4, British Isles (with part of Thule at top right); ff. 5v-6, Spain and Portugal; ff. 7v-8, France; ff. 9v-10, Germany; ff. 11v-12, Northern Adriatic region, Italy and Yugoslavia; ff. 13v-14, Italy, Corsica; ff. 15v-16, Sardinia, Sicily; ff. 17v-18, Baltic Sea to Black Sea; ff. 19v-20, Adriatic Sea to Black Sea; ff. 21v-22, Greece; ff. 23v-24, Northwest Africa; ff. 25v-26, North central Africa; ff. 27v-28, Northeast Africa; ff. 29v-30, Northern half of Africa; ff. 31v-32, Turkey; ff. 33v-34, Russia (Sarmatia); ff. 35v-36, Black Sea to Caspian Sea; ff. 37v-38, Mediterranean Sea to Persian Gulf; ff. 39v-40, Caspian Sea to Persian Gulf; ff. 41v-42, Red Sea to Persian Gulf; ff. 43v-44, Central Asia, east of Caspian Sea; ff. 45v-46, Parts of Russia and Iran (Scythia, etc.); ff. 47v-48, Indus River; ff. 49v-50, India; ff. 51v-52, Ganges River and Burma; ff. 53v-54, Ceylon (i.e., Taprobana, spelled "Tarrogane " on map and "Trapobanem " on accompanying table). ff. 3-53. [Europe Tabula Prima. Tables pertaining to maps ] Incipit: Prima europe tabula insulas brittanicas ... Explicit: finis Asiae tabularum duodecim. [f. 54v, 2 lines of text:] tunc velut natum permistica santificatum fulgura de sursum depellit omni malignum.

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