Group 37: various islands

(V¶30)… Iterum sunt in ipso oceano que dicuntur

A small group of island names precedes the main British listing. It is an odd group, naming three islands separated from the British mainland by only a short distance, while the other is off the western coast of Brittany. It may be relevant that both Ptolemy and the Tabula Peutingeriana depict Vectis, Wight, and Tanatus, Thanet, as much more distant from the mainland than is in fact the case. Why Malaea, Mull, was included in this group cannot be ascertained. However, it is possible that these names, occurring in an earlier section of the work, derive from a different source from that used by the Cosmographer for Britain generally.