Notes

L’arabien

En Arabie est d’encens abondance,
Arabiens jadis riches estoyent,
Et ce pourtraict vous met en evidence,
Le [?]ppre habit qu’ils portent, & qu’ils portoient

L’arabienne

Si veux de femme avoir la cognoissance,
Qui d’Arabie a pris nativité,
Cest figure te met en evidence,
L’habit qui est par les femmes es porté.

Notes

L’indien

De l’Indien, & son habit estrange,
Par ce pourtrait la verité peux voir,
Si ne le crois, je dis pour ma revange,
Va jusqu’au lieu, & tu le pourras voir.

[Indien: of the Indies (Cotg.)]

L’indienne

Amy lecteur, il te convient entendre,
Que l’Indienne est vestue proprement,
De cest habit que peux icy comprendre,
Pource qu’il est pourtrait naifuement.

fourneau de chaulx

C’est un «miracle de nature» que le mélèze «ne brûle pas de soi, à moins que, à la façon d’une pierre mise dans le fourneau pour y faire cuire de la chaux, il ne soit consumé par d’autres bois», selon Cœlius Rhodiginus, Antiquae Lectiones, X, 10.

Notes

larix

Quinto generi est situs idem, facies eadem; larix vocatur. materies praestantior longe, incorrupta aevis,1 umori contumax, rubens praeterea et odore acrior. plusculum huic erumpit liquoris melleo colore atque lentore, numquam durescentis.… Omnia autem haec genera accensa fuligine inmodica carbonem repente expuunt cum eruptionis crepitu eiaculanturque longe excepta larice quae nec ardet nec carbonem facit nec alio modo ignis vi consumitur quam lapides.

The fifth kind of resinous tree has the same habitat [mountains and cold localities] and the same appearance; it is called the larch. Its timber is far superior, not rotting with age and offering a stubborn resistance to damp; also it has a reddish colour and a rather penetrating scent. Resin flows from this tree in rather large quantities, of the colour and stickiness of honey, and never becoming hard.… All these kinds of trees when set fire to make an enormous quantity of sooty smoke and suddenly with an explosive crackle send out a splutter of charcoal and shoot it to a considerable distance—excepting the larch, which does not burn nor yet make charcoal, nor waste away from the action of fire any more than do stones.

Notes

Carrack, 1565

Sebastião Lópes (15??–1596). A Portuguese nau (carrack) as depicted in a map made in 1565.

carrack

A carrack or nau was a three- or four-masted sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Genoese for use in commerce, differing from the Venetians who favoured Galleys. Those ships became part of the illumanauty then widely used by Europe’s 15th-century maritime powers. It had a high rounded stern with large aftcastle, forecastle and bowsprit at the stem. It was first used by the Portuguese for oceanic travel, and later by the Spanish, to explore and map the world. It was usually square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.
Carracks were ocean-going ships: large enough to be stable in heavy seas, and roomy enough to carry provisions for long voyages. They were the ships in which the Portuguese and the Spanish explored the world in the 15th and 16th centuries. In Genoese the ship was called caracca or nao (ship), in Portuguese nau, while in Spanish carraca or nao. In French it was called a caraque or nef. The name carrack probably derives from the Arab Harraqa , a type of ships that appeared first time along the shores of the Tigris and Euphrates around the 9th century.
As the forerunner of the great ships of the age of sail, the carrack was one of the most influential ship designs in history; while ships became more specialized, the basic design remained unchanged throughout the age of sail.
Jacques Cartier first navigated the Saint Lawrence River in 1535 in the carrack Grande Hermine

carracons

Vaisseaux marchands.

Carack

A ship of 2000 tons burden. Cf. i. 16.

fustes

Flûtes.

Foists

Small vessels used in the Mediterranean carrying [?] sails and oars.

carracons, fustes

Grande carraque. De l’italien caraccone.
Petite galère, à voiles et à rames. Du vénitien fusta. Sur ces termes nautiques, voir R.E.R., VIII, p. 156.

carracon

1545: Au moys d’octobre suivant les grands carracons que le roy [Françoys premier] avoit faict venir de Gennes en Italie pour la guerre contre l’Anglois arrivèrent sur les vazes de cette ville, chargés de munitions de guerre qui estoient pour l’armée navale de la reconqueste de Boulongne…

prores

Proues.

fougons

Cuisines.

coursies

Galeries pratiquées de la prou à la poupe d’une galère.

rambardes

Garde-fou de la [?] dunette

courses

Fr. Coursies, the passage-planks (1-1/2 ft. broad), from stem to stern, between the rowers of a galley.

Bends

Fr. rambades

rambades

Rambarde: f. The bend, or wale of a Galley.

prores, fougons, coursies, rambades

Prores: Proue. Néologisme; du lat. prora, même sens.
Fougons: Cuisine. Du véntien fogon.
Coursies: Passerelle allant de la poupe à la proue d’une galère, entre les bancs des rameurs. De l’italien corsia.
Rambades: Château d’avant. De l’italien rambata.

Notes

Theleme

Ce rappel de Thélème rattache Le Tiers Livre au Gargantua. Le Pantagruelion comme l’abbaye de Thélème exprime un idéal de la sagesse rabelaisienne.