The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453 / In the Collections of the American Geographical Society

by John Kirtland Wright

312 f. nillo: The course of the Nile and its tributaries corresponds essentially with that of CE (Kret., CE, 89-91; see also [338]).

313 f. stapus: Astapus Fl. in Ethiopia, Ptol. (IV, 7:24 (FA15));=Bahr al-Azraq, or Blue Nile (PW, ii, 1775-1776; Besnier, 96).

Other Natural Features

314 Etiopia dezito: Ethiopian desert.

315 Libia dixerta; Deserta Libya, Ptol. (IV, 3:27 (FA13)).

316 dixerta arenoxa | qui nase animali quat|rupedi che ano Il uolto | domo (sandy desert where are born quadruped animals which have the face of a man): Possibly refers to the mantichora of Pliny (Nat. hist., VIII, 21; see Wright, Lore, 468).

317 y^a. meroe: Island of Meroë, Ptol. (IV, 7 (FA15)).

Edifices

(A) West Coast of Red Sea

318 filistina: =Palestine.