Unknown: commentary added to Mss of Isidore de Seville
(Toledo mss) (12th)

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Taken from: Existe una identidad mozarabe?: historia, lengua y cultura de los ... By Cyrille Aillet, Mayte Penelas, P. Roisse.

 

 

The map in the mss


BNM, ms, Vitr. 14.3, f° 116V°

Carte OT ms of Etymologies of Isidore de Seville copy of 9th century. In Arab added in Margins 12th century

Zang mentioned in right under quarter (see map on top)

 

(Africa is owned by) The sons of Cham (1), who are the Berbers. Starting from the confluence of the narrow sea: Sind (2) and Hind, al Zang, al-habasa, al-Qubt (3), al-Sudan and the Berbers, up to the Maghreb.

(1) Cham (Son of Noah) married Yakhleb, daughter of yareb, son of Aldermesil, son of Mahwil, son of Enoch, son of Cain, son of Adam, she got from him three children, Kouch, Fout, and Chanaan.

(2) Sind: now in Pakistan.

(3) al-Qubt: Qibt: Copts of Egypt.