Note 1278 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY
Reading edition
467“En Ynde a maintes granz contrées qui sont pueploiées de genz et de grant plente de bestes. Une en y a que l’en apele Perse ...” etc. (Im. du monde, II, 2). This shows that the writer considered Persia a part of India. A rubric in the manuscript of the Image du monde of the Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français, no. 574, reads “Des contrées d’Ynde,” and includes under it Babylonia, Chaldaea, Arabia, Phoenicia, Assyria, Palestine, and Armenia, showing that the scribe at least, if not the poet, believed that India comprises the greater part of Asia.