Item 55 (Narrative, Travel writing), fols [19r-49v][rev]

Collection of travel narratives containing fantastic claims about foreign lands.

Iambulus his navigation to Arabia and Ethiopia and thence to a strange island where the men exceed us four cubits in stature.

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Estoitland a province in America is affirmed by Matthias Quadus, and J. Antonius Maginus to have been the first discovered country of the New world and that by Antonius Zenu a patrician of Venice in the year of our Lord 1390 which was long before the expedition of Columbus, through the encouragement of Zichmus King of the Isle of Friesland

[Between fols 38 and 39[rev], a scrap of paper has been inserted with the heading "The Mark of Oanehkov" over a picture of a bird pricked out in holes. This probably was meant to accompany item 62.]