GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Bourges (Cher, 18)
Subject(s) Miscellanea
 
Author(s) Quadt, Matthias
  German geographer and engraver (1557/58-1613)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1603
Inscription
References Quadt 1603, p. 24
Bibliography

DLF XVIIe siècle, pp. 563-564 ; Provost/Chevrot/Troadec 1992, pp. 87-113 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 32, 107-108

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« BITVRIGVM vrbs vulgo Bourges, veteribus dicta fuit Avaricum, ruinæ docent id quod nunc cernitur, minime conferri deberi columnis, rebusque aliis, quæ adhuc sub terra latent, aliquandoque effodiunt è fossa Arenarum, vt vulgus vocat, quondam Amphitheatrum fuit. »