Note 2 — EXPLANATORY LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME I. (continued 2)
Henry Yule translation
The list of the whole number is preserved in the Doria archives, and has been published by Sign. Jacopo D’Oria. Many of the Baptismal names are curious, and show how far sponsors wandered from the Church Calendar.
Assan, Alton, Turco, Soldan
seem to come of the constant interest in the East.
Alaone
, a name which remained in the family for several generations, I had thought certainly borrowed from the fierce conqueror of the Khalif (
infra
,
p. 63
). But as one Alaone, present at this battle, had a son also there, he must surely have been christened before the fame of Hulaku could have reached Genoa. (See
La Chiesa di S. Matteo
, pp. 250,
seqq.
)
In documents of the kingdom of Jerusalem there are names still more anomalous, e.g., Gualterius Baffumeth, Joannes Mahomet. (See Cod. Dipl. del Sac. Milit. Ord. Gerosol. I. 2–3, 62.)