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Pseudo Brocardus (William Adam O.P.): Directorium ad passagium faciendum;

(The directory for Travellers) (1331)

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Taken from Encyclopaedia of Islam v 9

Authors of the Middle Ages. Volume I, Nos 1–4: English Writers of the Late ...By David C. Fowler, J. A.

 (after visiting Socotra)

I advanced towards the south to a place where I did not see our Arctic pole, and I saw the Antarctic pole in height of about 24 degrees. I did not proceed from this place, but merchants and credible men continued their way towards the south to a place where they said that the Antarctic pole had a height of 54 degrees.

Left a miniature from this book: the French army leaving on a crusade painted by Jan de Tavernier from Oudenaarde