The antiquities of Constantinople. With a description of its situation, the conveniencies of its port, its publick buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and other Curiosities of that City. With Cuts explaining the Chief of them. In four books. Written originally in Latin by Petrus Gyllius A Byzantine Historian. Now translated into English, and enlarged with an ancient description of the wards of that city, as they stood in the Reigns of Arcadius and Honorius. With Pancirolus's Notes thereupon. To which is added A large Explanatory Index. by John Ball, formerly of C. C. C. Oxon.
- Gilles, Pierre, 1490-1555.
- Date:
- 1729
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Also known as
De topographia Constantinopoleos
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London : printed for the benefit of the translator, 1729.
Physical description
[18],295,[9];63,[1]p.,plates : map ; 80.
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References note
ESTC T88595
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