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The geographical lore of the time of the Crusades

Note 699 — Chapter VI · COSMOGONY, COSMOLOGY, AND COSMOGRAPHY

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“Extra tres autem partes orbis, quarta pars trans oceanum interior est in meridie, quae solis ardore incognita nobis est. In cuius finibus antipodas fabulosae inhabitare produntur.” Text (not legible on our Fig. 2, p. 69) from Miller, Mappaemundi, vol. i, 1895, p. 58. See Isidore, Etym., XIV, 5, 17. Gervase of Tilbury describes the austral continent in similar terms: “Porro inter mare rubrum et Oceanum plaga torrida est, propter calorem nobis incognita, in cuius finibus antipodes esse dicuntur” (Otia imper., vol. ii, p. 760).

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