GALLIA ROMANA

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Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15^th-17^th centuries)

Ville	Bordeaux (Gironde, 33)
Subject(s)	Miscellanea

Author(s)	Platter, Félix
	Physician from Basel, older brother of Thomas Platter (1536-1614)
Resource type	Manuscript
Date	1557
Inscription
References	Platter A λ III, f. 96v°= Lötscher 1976, p. 271
Bibliography	Kieffer 1892 ; Lötscher 1976 ; Le Roy Ladurie 1995 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 28-29, 103-105
Remarks	The antique columns are the Pillars of Tutela

Transcription « Wir zogen auf das haus, do das parlament von Tholosen wirt gehalten, und die stat überal, dorunder von antiquiteten ein amphitheatrum und ein gar alt haus eines praetoris, große alte seulen etc. » = “We also visited the building in which the Parliament of [Bordeaux] met, and the town in general, the antiquities of which include an amphitheatre and a very old court of justice with immense old columns, etc.”