Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae. Ex saeculo VIII, IX, XII et XV. S. Willibaldus. Commemoratorium de casis Dei. Bernardus Monachus. Innominatus VII. Johannes Wirziburgensis. Innominatus VIII. La Citez de Iherusalem. Johannes Poloner.
by Tobler, Titus (Editor). [S. Willibaldus; Bernardus Monachus; Johannes Wirziburgensis; Johannes Poloner]
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Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1874. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Octavo. Pp. 539, (1) errata. Plus a fold-out lithograph map "Tabula geographica Marini Sanuti" bound at end. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary cloth and marbled boards, spine with decorated gilt morocco label and two small round paper labels, one partly removed, old institutional bookplate and stamps to front paste-down, some annotations in a very neat contemporary hand to title and elsewhere, some browning and spotting. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. In this book Tobler studies, edits, and prepares for publication an 8th-century manuscript by S. Willibaldus; the 9th-century Commemoratorium de casis Dei, and a manuscript by Bernardus Monachus; the 12th-century Innominatus VII and VIII, a manuscript by Johannes Wirziburgensis, and the La Citez de Iherusalem; and a 15th-century manuscript by Johannes Poloner. They are published here in the original Latin. The second part of the book is Tobler's commentary, in German. Born in 1806, Tobler studied medicine in Zurich, Vienna, and Paris. Worked as a practising physician. In 1835 he visited Palestine for the first time, and published his travelogue in "Lustreise in Morgenland". In 1845, 1857 and 1865 made further journeys to Palestine. Beside his own travelogues he edited older travel descriptions of Palestine and published a bibliography of the Palestine literature. He died in 1877. F-5 IN
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- Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae. Ex saeculo VIII, IX, XII et XV. S. Willibaldus. Commemoratorium de casis Dei. Bernardus Monachus. Innominatus VII. Johannes Wirziburgensis. Innominatus VIII. La Citez de Iherusalem. Johannes Poloner.
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- Tobler, Titus (Editor). [S. Willibaldus; Bernardus Monachus; Johannes Wirziburgensis; Johannes Poloner]
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- PALESTINE STUDIES HISTORY HISTORICAL BIBLICAL PALÄSTINA PALESTINA HOLY LAND JEWISH JUDAISM CHRISTIANITY ISLAM MUSLIM ISRAEL ANCIENT EARLY MIDDLE EAST LEVANT HEILIGEN LANDE BIBLE TESTAMENT NOISBN
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