[split] Sanctae Mariae Moriae

[ReneZ]

At least the "St Eustachius next to the temple of Agrippa" is a readily identifiable church in Rome.

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At the same time, I am not familiar with any church in Rome called S. Maria Moria, and google does not seem to be either.

More to the present topic: one of the points in the discussion about the Vinland Map, is that the use of an 'ae' ligature on it has been considered anachronistic, and one of the points indicating a fraud.
Now it is easy to find out that the Bayeux tapestry has a capital AE ligature at the start of the name AElfgyva, but this may not be relevant, and one has to presume that the contestants in the Vinland map discussion know what they are talking about.
It would then also be anachronistic for the hypothetical source for f116v.

Another problem is that those (later) ae ligatures that I have seen do not at all look like an 'x', but like an 'a' with a miniature 'e' attached in superscript.