80 Bouloux
Figure 2.3 Sardinia, Chantilly, Musée Condé, 698, fol. 110v.
photo: IRHT.
working method.30 After a text combining selections from Pliny, Solinus, and
Isidore of Seville, the map of Sardinia appears in the Florentine manuscript
along with Sicily in a double page. The space of the map is defined by a framed
area in the manuscript, in a manner characteristic of the author. It extends into
the space in such a way as to isolate Sicily from Sardinia. Sardinia is identified
by a caption inscribed inside the island, which contains its name and dimen-
sions. The general outline of the island appears to be an adaptation of a chart,
30 See Chantilly, Condé Museum, 698, fol. 110v (fig. 3), and Florence, Biblioteca Medicea
Laurenziana, Plut. XXIX 25, fol. 51v–52 (http://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuvi
ewer/iccu.jsp?id=oai%3Ateca.bmlonline.it%3A21%3AXXXX%3APlutei%3AIT%253A
FI0100_Plutei_29.25_0001&mode=all&teca=Laurenziana+-+FI).