GALLIA ROMANA

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

Ville	Bordeaux (Gironde, 33)
Subject(s)	Roman city walls

Author(s)	Platter, Thomas II
	Physician from Basel, younger brother of Felix Platter (1574-1628)
Resource type	Manuscript
Date	1599
Inscription
References	Platter A λ V, f. 399v°= Keiser 1968, p. 440
Bibliography	Étienne 1962, pp. 204-211 ; Keiser 1968 ; Le Roy Ladurie 1995 ; Barraud/Linières/Maurin 1996, pp. 15-75 ; Le Roy Ladurie 2000 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 28-31, 103
Remarks

Transcription « Erstlich sindt noch viel alte mauren vast mitten in der statt, die anzeigen, dab die statt noch umb viel grösser gewesen seye, undt ist albereit zu keyser Augusti zeiten in einem ruf gewesen. » = “Firstly, there are still many old walls within the town that suggest that this town was once a good deal larger than it is now and that, already in the time of the emperor Augustus, it was held in high esteem.”