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Fra Nicolo: Aviso di Fra Nicolo infrascripto da San Michiel di Murano (15th century) (Information from Brother Nicholas, a friar of san Michele, Murano, given in writing)
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Taken from: Ethiopian Itineraries, Circa 1400-1524 By Osbert Guy Stanhope, Crawford, Alessandro Zorzi.
The text came to us through a mss of Alessandro Zorzi of 1528
Diab is a big province, and one part of it is called Sachra (Socotra?) i.e. Manna (or Manno) overflowing in all good things; that is: much gold and its main town is Mogadis.
In 1420 a ship made a passage from India on the route of the islands of men and
women above the Cape of Diab towards the west for 40 days for about 2000 miles it returned in 70 days to the said cape, where on shore they found a very great bird with a great egg.
Note: several authors think that it is from this manuscript that (partly) Fra Mauro got his inspiration to make his African section of his world map.