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Adriana Cascone
The Marciana National Library in Venice preserves a manuscript known as Codex Comanicus (Cod. Marc. Lat. Z. 549=1597). It consists of three fascicules that were compiled in the first half of the 14th century in the context of colonial trade and missionary expeditions on the Black Sea. The first part is a copy, dated 1330, of a trilingual Low Latin-Persian-Cuman glossary that was probably written by Italian merchants in the Crimea just a few years before. The lexicon of the Latin column, especially that related to the material culture of everyday life, shows typical linguistic traits of the ancient Genoese vernacular. This article proposes a lexical analysis of 90 words of the Latin vocabulary.
