Description:Excerpt: ...conjecture, el-Cassar. The hebrew perhaps was-/j from which it became corrupted into p"y3pip or r Ed. itia. 386. The city is the seat of the viceroy. William the second of Sicily began his reign in 1166 when twelve years of age. During his minority, Gentilis, the Queen Dowager, was the regent of the kingdom and she caused her uncle, the Archbishop of Rouen, to send over Stephen of Rotrou, son of the count of Perche, whom she elected chancellor of the empire. This Stephen, by the influence of the queen, also became Archbishop of Palermo and invested with clerical and secular power, was the governor and viceroy of the kingdom, to whom our author refers. Ed. a. See Burigny vol. I. p. 481 et seq. 387. Coral (arab. Bessed. Pers. Merjan.) A marine pa-- i-. production, well known to the ancients. Its value depends upon its size, solidity, and the depth and brilliancy of its colour, and is so very various, that while some of the Sicilian Coral sells for 8 or 10 guineas an ounce, other descriptions of it will not fetch 1 s. a pound. The produce of the fishery at Messina is stated by Spallanzani (Travels in the two Sicilies, vol. IV. p. 308. etc.) to amount to 12 quintals of 250 Ibs. each. See Me. Culloch, article Coral. Edrisi (I. 266 et 267.) mentions the fishery of this production to have been carried on by the Sicilians and states that it was inferior to the species found on the African coast. This paragraph is a further proof of our author's avocation and his minute description of the island has led us to suppose that he visited it. Ed. 388. Maurienne, at our author's time the earldom;bid-of Maurienne included almost all modern Savoy. We find a count of Maurienne and Turin in the list of the noblemen who took part in the second crusade, ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela Volume 2. To get started finding The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela Volume 2, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela Volume 2
Description: Excerpt: ...conjecture, el-Cassar. The hebrew perhaps was-/j from which it became corrupted into p"y3pip or r Ed. itia. 386. The city is the seat of the viceroy. William the second of Sicily began his reign in 1166 when twelve years of age. During his minority, Gentilis, the Queen Dowager, was the regent of the kingdom and she caused her uncle, the Archbishop of Rouen, to send over Stephen of Rotrou, son of the count of Perche, whom she elected chancellor of the empire. This Stephen, by the influence of the queen, also became Archbishop of Palermo and invested with clerical and secular power, was the governor and viceroy of the kingdom, to whom our author refers. Ed. a. See Burigny vol. I. p. 481 et seq. 387. Coral (arab. Bessed. Pers. Merjan.) A marine pa-- i-. production, well known to the ancients. Its value depends upon its size, solidity, and the depth and brilliancy of its colour, and is so very various, that while some of the Sicilian Coral sells for 8 or 10 guineas an ounce, other descriptions of it will not fetch 1 s. a pound. The produce of the fishery at Messina is stated by Spallanzani (Travels in the two Sicilies, vol. IV. p. 308. etc.) to amount to 12 quintals of 250 Ibs. each. See Me. Culloch, article Coral. Edrisi (I. 266 et 267.) mentions the fishery of this production to have been carried on by the Sicilians and states that it was inferior to the species found on the African coast. This paragraph is a further proof of our author's avocation and his minute description of the island has led us to suppose that he visited it. Ed. 388. Maurienne, at our author's time the earldom;bid-of Maurienne included almost all modern Savoy. We find a count of Maurienne and Turin in the list of the noblemen who took part in the second crusade, ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela Volume 2. To get started finding The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela Volume 2, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.