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Could it be Mazote?
Carlos
On 9/3/07, Maureen A. Tilley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On Mazo Sancti Yspania: if the orthography is not clear, you might get some
> clues from Lexicon abbreviaturarum/Dizionario di abbreviature latine et
> italiane, ed. Adriano Capelli. If it turns out that the Mazo is really an
> abbreviation, you might also try "Latin Place Names" (pre-1801) at
> http://net.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/people/rlm/latin/names.htm.
> None of the Maz- entries are Spanish, but again if the z is not really a z,
> there may be something of interest.
>
> You might also try a Spanish-language encyclopedia for variant spellings
> under place names beginning with "Ma". I had similar problems with
> Montepessulanus which turned out to be Montpellier. I found it by checking
> through old French encyclopedias.
>
> Mazo sancti is macaronic (Spanish-Latin) for hammer of the saint. Might
> there be a synonym for hammer or mallet that corresponds to a place name? It
> is also used occasionally for the mechanism used to strike a bell.
>
> Lexicon Latinitatis Medii Aevii, ed. Albert Blaise, gives mazo as the
> equivalent of machio. The entry for that word is:
> machio (macio, mattio, marcio, mazo, et.) maçon: machiones dicti a machinis
> quibus insistunt propter altitudinem parietum, Isid, Or. 19,8,2; Odo.-Clun.
> Vit. Ger, 2,4.
>
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> From: Sara McDougall <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: 09/03/2007 10:56AM
> Subject: [M-R] town in Spain
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> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Can anyone on the list help me with the name of a town in Spain that has
> turned
> up in some fifteenth century northern French records I'm working on? The
> handwriting is far from clear, but suggests something like: Mazo Sancti
> Yspania, Mazo Sti Yspan. Any ideas of what it might be or where I might go
> to
> look it up would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Sara McDougall
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