sericum

Hæc gens tam parua optimè operatur sericum et bombycem.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Nauigando per dictum flumen versus Orientem, et itinerando per hanc Cathay prouinciam ad multas dietas per plurimas vrbes et villas, venitur in ciuitatem Sugarmago, [Marginal note: Engarmago.] abundantiorem omnibus in mercemoniis antedictis, quando sericum est hic vilissimum: quadragintæ libræ habentur ibi pro decem florenis.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

H鎐 gens tam parua optim� operatur sericum et bombycem.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Nauigando per dictum flumen versus Orientem, et itinerando per hanc Cathay prouinciam ad multas dietas per plurimas vrbes et villas, venitur in ciuitatem Sugarmago, [Marginal note: Engarmago.] abundantiorem omnibus in mercemoniis antedictis, quando sericum est hic vilissimum: quadragint� libr� habentur ibi pro decem florenis.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Hæc gens tam parua optimè operatur sericum et bombycem.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

Nauigando per dictum flumen versus Orientem, et itinerando per hanc Cathay prouinciam ad multas dietas per plurimas vrbes et villas, venitur in ciuitatem Sugarmago, [Marginal note: Engarmago.] abundantiorem omnibus in mercemoniis antedictis, quando sericum est hic vilissimum: quadragintæ libræ habentur ibi pro decem florenis.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

"silk" and "worm," points to the south as the source of that useful industry, much as our word "silk," derived from _sericum_, points to China as its origin.

The Awakening of China 1871