Granada

E l’Affrica nelle marine, e nelle sue provincie di verso levante, e le rive del nostro Mare tirreno. E venendo di tempo in tempo verso il ponente, comprese la Sardigna, e la Corsica, e l’altre isole di questo mare; e dall’altra parte, ch’è detta Europa, per simigliante modo aggiunse alle parti vicine verso il ponente, volgendosi verso il mezzogiorno con più aspro assalimento che sotto le parti settentrionali. E negli anni di Cristo 1348 ebbe infetta tutta Italia, salvo che la città di Milano, e certi circustanti all’Alpi, che dividono l’Italia dall’Alamagna, ove gravò poco. E in questo medesimo anno cominciò a passare le montagne, e stendersi in Proenza, e in Savoia, e nel Dalfinato, e in Borgogna, e per la marina di Marsilia e d’Acquamorta, e per la Catalogna, e nell’isola di Maiolica, e in Ispagna e in Granata. E nel 1349 ebbe compreso fino nel ponente, le rive del Mare oceano, d’Europa e d’Affrica e d’Irlanda, e l’isola d’Inghilterra e di Scozia, e l’altre isole di ponente, e tutto infra terra con quasi eguale mortalità salvo in Brabante ove poco offese. E nel 1350 premette gli Alamanni, e gli Ungheri, Frigia, Danesmarche, Gotti, e Vandali, e gli altri popoli e nazioni settentrionali.

It took in the coasts of Africa and its eastern lands, and the shores of our Tyrrhenian Sea. Moving westward over time, it took in Sardinia, Corsica, and the other islands of this sea. On the other side, called Europe, it reached the nearby lands to the west in the same way, striking the south more fiercely than the north. In the year of Christ 1348 it had infected all Italy except the city of Milan and some places near the Alps, which divide Italy from Germany; there it weighed lightly. That same year it began to cross the mountains and spread into Provence, Savoy, the Dauphiné, and Burgundy, along the coast at Marseille and Aigues-Mortes, and into Catalonia, the island of Majorca, Spain, and Granada. By 1349 it had reached the shores of the Ocean in the far west, in Europe, Africa, and Ireland, the islands of England and Scotland, and the other western islands. Inland, too, the mortality was almost equal everywhere, except in Brabant, where it did little harm. In 1350 it bore down on the Germans, the Hungarians, Frisia, Denmark, the Goths and Vandals, and the other peoples and nations of the north.

Hay á vender muchas maneras de filado de algodon de todas colores en sus madejicas, que parece propriamente alcaicería de Granada en las sedas, aunque esto otro es en mucha mas cantidad. Venden colores para pintores cuantas se pueden hallar en España, y de tan excelentes matices cuanto pueden ser. Venden cueros de venado con pelo y sin él, teñidos, blancos y de diversas colores. Venden mucha loza, en gran manera muy buena, venden muchas vasijas de tinajas grandes y pequeñas, jarros, ollas ladrillos y otras infinitas maneras de vasijas, todas de singular barro, todas ó las mas vedriadas y pintadas.

Many kinds of spun cotton are for sale, of every color, in little skeins. It looks just like the silk market of Granada, except that here there is far more. They sell as many painters' colors as can be found in Spain, in the finest shades there could be. They sell deerskins, with the hair and without, dyed, white, and of other colors. They sell a great deal of pottery, exceedingly fine. They sell many vessels: storage jars large and small, jugs, cooking pots, bricks, and countless other kinds. All are made of excellent clay, and all or most of them are glazed and painted.