A briefe description of Hierusalem and of the suburbs therof, as it florished in the time of Christ Whereto is annexed a short commentarie concerning those places which were made famous by the Passion of Christ, and by the actes of holye men, confirmed by certeine principall histories of antiquity. Verie profitable for Christians to read, for the understanding of the Sacred Scriptures and Iosephus his Historie. Hereunto also is appertaining a liuely and beawtifull mappe of Hierusalem, with arithmeticall directions, correspondent to the numbers of this booke. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Tymme minister.
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A briefe description of Hierusalem and of the suburbs therof, as it florished in the time of Christ Whereto is annexed a short commentarie concerning those places which were made famous by the Passion of Christ, and by the actes of holye men, confirmed by certeine principall histories of antiquity. Verie profitable for Christians to read, for the understanding of the Sacred Scriptures and Iosephus his Historie. Hereunto also is appertaining a liuely and beawtifull mappe of Hierusalem, with arithmeticall directions, correspondent to the numbers of this booke. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Tymme minister.
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Adrichem, Christiaan van, 1533-1585.
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London :: Printed by Peter Short for Thomas Wright,
1595.
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"A briefe description of Hierusalem and of the suburbs therof, as it florished in the time of Christ Whereto is annexed a short commentarie concerning those places which were made famous by the Passion of Christ, and by the actes of holye men, confirmed by certeine principall histories of antiquity. Verie profitable for Christians to read, for the understanding of the Sacred Scriptures and Iosephus his Historie. Hereunto also is appertaining a liuely and beawtifull mappe of Hierusalem, with arithmeticall directions, correspondent to the numbers of this booke. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Tymme minister." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05059.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
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28. THE AMPHITHEATER,
* 1.1 that is a place inuiro∣ned
with scaffoldes and stages, capable of foure∣score
thousand men, where the people were woont
to behold their games, which Herod the elder first of
all other builded in the field at Ierusalem with great la∣bour
and cost. Wherein, to recreate the beholders,
wrastlers and sword players, shewed many feates of
actiuitie: and sometimes, Lyons, Leopardes, Bulles,
Beares, Bores, Wolues, and other exceeding wilde
and fierce beasts, fought one with another, and some∣time
condemned men were cast vnto these to bee de∣uoured,
and captiues taken in warre. At which time
of their games, the place beneath was strowed with
sand, to the end that neither the sword players should
faile in their footing, nor the fighters might bee defi∣led
with the bloud of the slain, nor yet that the sprink∣ling
of the bloud shoulde bring horror to the lookers
on.