GALLIA ROMANA
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| Ville | Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges (Haute-Garonne, 31) |
| Subject(s) | Aqueduct |
| Author(s) | Gardet, Jean, Scholar from the Bourbonnais province (15..?-15..?) |
| Bertin, Dominique, Parisian architect (15..?-1578) | |
| Resource type | Printed book |
| Date | 1559 |
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| References | Gardet/Bertin 1559, p. 67 |
| Bibliography | Graillot 1919, pp. 290-294 ; May 1986 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 76-77 ; Sablayrolles/Beyrie 2006, pp. 270-274 |
| Remarks | This is the earliest known mention of the vestiges of the aqueduct at Tibiran, the source of which was located west of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges. Gardet and Bertin's work is an abridged and annotated translation of the illustrated version of Vitruvius' Epitome |
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Transcription
« De telle façon auons nous veu aux monts pyrenées, tout auprés de la ville de Saint Bertrand, le plat fons, et lacunaire d’un grand conduit qui est sous terre, duquel nous auons parlé en noz commentaires d’architecture, poursuiuans une bonne partie des choses mémorables, qui se treuuent de par de la. » |
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