Ann: Codex Cumanicus
(1330) Venice
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Taken from: Das Persische im Codex Cumanicus by Davoud Monchi-Zadeh
The Codex Cumanicus was a linguistic manual of the Middle Ages, designed to help Catholic missionaries communicate with the Cumans, a nomadic Turkic people on the Black Sea. It also contains the translation in Persian of the words.
(Persian) Filfil zanj: African pepper.
A page from this manuscript