Fájl:Mandeville Szaracén betűi kinagyítva, valójában Aethicus ABC, 1371, BnF NAF 4515-4516, fol. 43v-44r.png

"Szaracén" ABC kinagyítva, valójában Aethicus Ister betűi, Mandeville (1300 k.-1372) művének (1356-1357) francia fordításából (1371)

Jean de Mandeville: Voyages ; Jean de Bourgogne, De morbo epidemiae, francia fordítás, Préservation de Epidémie cím alatt. [1]

Irodalom: Marcia Kupfer: "...Lectres... plus vrayes": Hebrew Script and Jewish Witness in the "Mandeville" Manuscript of Charles V. Speculum Vol. 83, No. 1, Jan., 2008. 58-111.[2]

Bibliothèque nationale de France, NAF 4515-4516fol. 43v-44r[3][4]

A betűelnevezések olvasata (Sz. L.) és hangértéke: első sor: almaẏ (a), bethath (b), cathẏ (c), delfoẏ (d), effotí (e), faẏthi (f), throdn (ch),
második sor: gaivpi (g), hethini (h), kathi (k), lothim (l), malath (m), nabeleth (n), orthi (o),
harmadik sor: cqriset (ý), ẏrycoluth (9, [q]), Ronchi (r), salim (s), totimis (t), azalor (v), ẏrtony (x),
negyedik sor: arothẏ (ẏ), ʒoʒaer (ʒ), teth (z)

A "szaracén" betűkről Mandeville a következőket mondja, a British Library Cotton kézirata alapján: "Now I have told you a part of their law and of their customs, I shall say you of their letters that they have, with their names and the manner of their figures what they be: Almoy, Bethath, Cathi, Ephoti, Delphoi, Fothi, Garothi, Hechum, Iotty, Kaythi, Lothum, Malach, Nabaloth, Orthi, Chesiri, ȝoch, Ruth, Holath, Routhi, Salathi, Thatimus, Yrthom, Aȝaȝoth, Arrocchi, ȝotipyn, Ichetus. And these be the names of their a. b. c. Now shall ye know the figures. . . . And four letters they have more than other for diversity of their language and speech, forasmuch as they speak in their throats; and we in England have in our language and speech two letters more than they have in their a. b. c.; and that is Þ and ȝ, which be clept thorn and ȝogh."

(A. W. Pollard szerk.: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. London: Macmillan, 1915. Chapter XV. 96. o.) [5]