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 86 MAYDA Giraldi, 1426 ; 11 Beccario, 1426" and I435 13 (Fig. 20); Bianco, 1436 and 1448 ; 14 Benincasa, 1467" and I482 16 (Fig. 22); Roselli, 1468;" the Weimar map, (probably) about 1481 ; 18 Freducci, 1497 ; 19 and others arguing surely a robust and confident tradi- tion. RESUMPTION OF NAME "MAYDA" On sixteenth-century maps this island is still generally pre- sented, though lacking on those of Ruysch, 1508 ; 20 Coppo, I528 21 (Fig. 13); and Ribero, I529; 22 but suddenly and almost completely the name May da in its various forms takes the place of Man, a substitution quite unaccounted for. There are hardly enough instances of survival of the older name to be worth men- tioning. Was there some resuscitation of old records or charts, now lost again, which thus overcame the Celtic claim and sup- plied an Arabic or at least a quite alien and unusual designation? The little mystery is not likely ever to be cleared up. The pre- viously mentioned map from the Ptolemy edition of 1513 (Fig. ll), which perhaps first introduces it, also presents several other 11 Theobald Fischer, Portfolio 8 (Facsimile del Portolano di Giacomo Giraldi di Venezia dell* anno 1426). 12 The section of which the author has a photograph (first published in the Geogr. Rev., Vol. 8, 1919, opposite p. 40, and here reproduced, Fig. 3, somewhat curtailed) does not extend far enough to show the island. 13 Gustavo Uzielli: Mappamondi, carte nautiche e portolani del medioevo e dei secoli delle grandi scoperte marittime construiti da italiani o trovati nelle biblio- teche d'ltalia, Part II (pp. 280-390) of "Studi Bibliografici e Biografici sulla Storia della Geografia in Italia," published on the occasion of the Second International Geographical Congress, Paris, 1875. by theSocietaGeograficaltaliana, Rome, 1875; reference on PI. 8 (the second edition, Rome, 1882, does not contain the plates). "A. E. Nordenskiold, Periplus, PL 20.; Theobald Fischer, Portfolio n, PI. 3. u A. E. Nordenskiold, Periplus, PI. 33. 16 Kretschmer, atlas, PL 4, map i. E. L. Stevenson: Facsimiles of Portolan Charts Belonging to the Hispanic Society of America, Publs. Hispanic Soc. of Amer. No. 104, New York, 1916, PL 2. " W. H. Babcock: Indications of Visits of White Men to America before Colum- bus, Proc. loth Internatl. Congr. of Americanists, Held at Washington, Dec. 27-31, 1915, [Smithsonian Institution,] Washington, D. C., 1917, PP- 469-478; map on p. 476. A. E. Nordenskiold, Periplus, PL 22. 20 Kretschmer, atlas, PL 9, map 3; also in A. E. Nordenskiold: Facsimile-Atlas to the Early History of Cartography, transl. by J. A. Ekelof and C. R. Markham, Stockholm, 1889, PL 32. 21 Kretschmer, atlas, PL 14, map 5. Ibid., PL 15.