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tient trente trois regions dont la premiere est le
royaulme de perse la ou une art appelle nigroman
tie fut premierement trouvee qui fait constrainde
re lennemy et tenir prisonnir. En celle contree
croist ung poiz qui est tant chaulde quelle eschaulde
les mains a ceulx qui la tiennent et va croissant
avec la lune et descroissant a chascun de ses decours
Ceulx qui sont nigromantieus saident tresbien de
celle poiz. Apres celle region en a une aultre qui est
appelle mesopothamie ou ninive une cite de tres
grande signourie et puissante est assise et establie la
quelle a trois journees en longueur et est moult
large. En babilonne a une tour qui jadiz fut fait
te par tresgrant orgueil. Dont les murs sont a
merveilles grans fors et haultz et est appelle le tour
babel. Elle a de hault tout environ quatre mil pas
jusques au plus hault. En la region de chaldee fut
premierement trouvee astronomie. En celle region
est la terre de sabbe. et puis est la region de tharse. et
apres vient celle darabe. De ces trois regions furent
seigneurs et prinches les trois roix qui alerent offrir

sists of thirty-three regions, of which the first is the ***
kingdom of Persia. An art known as necromancy
was first invented there, which causes one's enemy
to be constrained and taken prisoner. And in this
country there grows a pitch that is so hot that it burns
the hands of anyone that holds it. It expands with
the moon and contracts at each waning.
Those who are necromancers know this pitch
very well. Nex to this region there is another one
that is called Mesopotamia, where Nineveh, a city
of great dominance and power, is located and established.
Nineveh takes three days to cross and is very
large. In Babylon a there is a tower that
was made in the past out of great pride, whose walls are marvelously
large, strong, and tall. It is called the Tower of
Babel. It is one thousand feet high
at the highest point. In the region of Chaldea,
astronomy was first invented. The
land of Saba is in this region. Next to it is the region of Tarsus, and
next comes that of Arabia. From these three regions
the three kings reigned as lords and princes, who came to offer

tient trente trois regions dont la premiere est le
royaulme de perse la ou une art appelle nigroman
tie fut premierement trouvee qui fait constrainde
re lennemy et tenir prisonnir. En celle contree
croist ung poiz qui est tant chaulde quelle eschaulde
les mains a ceulx qui la tiennent et va croissant
avec la lune et descroissant a chascun de ses decours
Ceulx qui sont nigromantieus saident tresbien de
celle poiz. Apres celle region en a une aultre qui est
appelle mesopothamie ou ninive une cite de tres
grande signourie et puissante est assise et establie la
quelle a trois journees en longueur et est moult
large. En babilonne a une tour qui jadiz fut fait
te par tresgrant orgueil. Dont les murs sont a
merveilles grans fors et haultz et est appelle le tour
babel. Elle a de hault tout environ quatre mil pas
jusques au plus hault. En la region de chaldee fut
premierement trouvee astronomie. En celle region
est la terre de sabbe. et puis est la region de tharse. et
apres vient celle darabe. De ces trois regions furent
seigneurs et prinches les trois roix qui alerent offrir

sists of thirty three regions, of which the first is the ***
kingdom of Persia. An art known as necromancy
was first invented there, which causes one's enemy
to be constrained and taken prisoner. And in this
country there grows a pitch that is so hot that it burns
the hands of anyone that holds it. It expands with
the moon and contracts at each waning.
Those who are necromancers know this pitch
very well. Nex to this region there is another one
that is called Mesopotamia, where Nineveh, a city
of great dominance and power, is located and established.
Nineveh takes three days to cross and is very
large. In Babylon a there is a tower that
was made in the past out of great pride, whose walls are marvelously
large, strong, and tall. It is called the Tower of
Babel. It is one thousand feet high
at the highest point. In the region of Chaldea,
astronomy was first invented. The
land of Saba is in this region. Next to it is the region of Tarsus, and
next comes that of Arabia. From these three regions
the three kings reigned as lords and princes, who came to offer