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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2023
In this came
also to present the Universita
of the Jews of Pesaro who came
as the decorated livery
beautiful and ornate to
represent the Queen of Sheba
when she came to visit and present
Salomon with this visible[?] order
sent as a first quantigio?
various children [or cherubs] two by two
with new clothing of people
and spoke in the Arabic style
with date palms in the hands.
Then came a large elephant,
bigger than a large ox with a muzzle and
with teeth so well hidden that
they almost seemed real
and one couldn’t see [??]
legs of the men who were in
the elephant
that it is impossible to
write of this in detail for those
who did not see the amazing
artifice that was created.
And at the top of this elephant
was a golden chair in which was seated a Jewish woman with
a crown as a Queen dressed in gold and behind her
two more elephants
who looked similar.
On them was a tower with flags on it and
the Queen’s ladies in waiting.
In questo ven
ne anche a presentare la Universi
ta delli giudei di pesaro Li quale ve(n)
nero cum la infrascripta liurea
bella & ornatissima representan
do la regina Sabba quanto ven
ne a visitare & (a) presentare a Sala
mone cum questo ordine videlic …
Eniva un prima quantigio
vari & putti a dui a dui cum
cum novi habiti di persone & dit
(ques) l’ta alla arabescha, cum palma ve(n)
di datteri in mano. Poi veniva
uno Elephante maggiore assai
che uno grande boue col muso &
colli denti si ben contrafatto che
quasi pareve vero ne si vedea ch(e) il
portasse ançi dasi medesimo siue
dea caminare si bene erano comp
ate le gambe delli homini che
erano dentro cum quello dello e
lephante che impossibile faria a
scrivere chi non la vesse veduto
el mirabile arteficio detto. E(t) rop(sopra)
questo elephant era una sedìa
doro. Et in questa sedia sedea u
na donna ebrea coronata in forma
di Regina vestita doro & drieto
allei venieno dui altri elephanti
simili: sopra li quali era uno ca
stello cum torre & bandiere pie
no di damiselle di quella Regina.
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