Route and land survey with measured distances
A faint schematic survey with numbered road segments and compass bearings; text in a later hand, untranscribed
The critical edition left the writing on this opening untranscribed (one page noted as a later hand, the other simply as writings and numbers), so nothing here is read from the text. Along the lower edge runs a faint, partly blotted schematic map: a road threading between marked points, small buildings, and what may be a bridge or ford, with numbers set against each segment as measured distances. A short list of compass bearings toward the sirocco and the east accompanies it. Further untranscribed writing and figures fill the rest of both pages.
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Schematic route map with measured segments
The lower part of the sheet carries a faint line-map in which a road runs between marked stations, with numerical distances (such as 200, 50–130, 100–90, 180, 320–120–116) noted against successive stretches. Small building symbols and a directional note of compass bearings accompany it, in the manner of a land or route survey.
Roads and a possible bridge recorded on the ground
Among the surveyed features are the road itself and a structure at a junction that may be a bridge or ford, drawn together with small buildings. The measurements attached to them read as a working record of an actual route rather than an ideal plan.