The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela. I. Text, Bibliography and Translation

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by  Adolph Asher (ed., trans.)

THE ITINERARY
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BENJAMIN OF TUDELA.

THE ITINERARY
OF
RABBI BENJAMIN OF TUDELA.
TRANSLATED AND EDITED
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A. ASHER.
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TEXT, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND TRANSLATION.
LONDON AND BERLIN
A. A S H E R * CO.
1840.
PRO TED BY JULIES BITTEKFBLD.
TO HIS EXCELLENCY
B A R O N
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
THIS WORK
WITH HIS KIND PERMISSION
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.
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CONTENTS
OF THE ENGLISH PORTION
OF THIS VOLUME.
Bibliography
I. Editions in Hebrew only . . . 1
H. Hebrew and Latin ............................ 9
III. L a tin .................................................... 11
IV. English.................................................... 14
V. French..........................................................22
VI. D u tch ..........................................................25
VII. Jewish-German.......................................25
Tte Itinerary
Hebrew P reface............................................................29
E U R O P E .
The author leaves Saragossa...................................31
Barcellona ..........................................................31. 32
Narbonne, Beziers............................................................32
Montpeillier, Lunel ......................................................33
Beaucaire................................................... 34
Bourg de St. G illes......................................................35
Arles, Marseilles.............................................................36
Genoa, P is a ...................................................................37
Lucca, R om e..................................................................38
Description of Rom e................................39—41
C apua................................................................................41
Sorrento..........................• .......................................42
Naples, Salerno, Amalfi................................................43
Bavento, Melii, Ascoli, T rani...................................44
Bari, Taranto, Brindisi, Otranto . . . . 45
VIII CONTENTS.
Corfu.......................................................................45. 46
Arta, Achelous, Anatolica, Patras, Lepanto, Crissa 46
Corinth, Thebes, Negropont, Jabustrisa . . 47
Rabenica, Zeitun, Walachia.........................................48
Gardicki, Armiro, Bissina, Salunki . . . . 49
Mitrizzi, Drama, A b yd os.........................................50
Description op Constantinople . . 50—56
Rodosto, Gallipoli, Kilia, Mitilene . . . . 56
Chio, Samos, Rhodes, Cyprus...................................57
ASIA.
Corycus................................................................................57
Tersoos, Antioch.............................................................58
Latachia, Jebilee............................................................59
Account of the Assasins................................................59
Tripoli, D jebail.............................................................60
Beyrut, Saida...................................................................61
Account of the Druses.................................61. 62
Tsour (Sidon)....................................................62. 63
Acre, Khaifa.........................................................................64
K’phar Thanchum, Ccsarea, Kakun, St. George
Sebaste.........................................................................65
Nablous, Account of the Samaritans . . 66—68
Mount Gilboa, Gran David (Gib’on) . . . 68
Description of Jerushalaim (Jerusalem) 68— 75
Beth-Lechem...................................................................75
Chebron................................................................................76
Beith Jaberim...................................................................77
St. Samuel, Pesipua, Beith Nubi . . . . 78
Ramleh, Jaffa, Ibelin, Asdoud, Ascalon . . 79
St. George, Serain, Sufurieh.........................................80
Tiberias, Tebnin............................................................81
Gish, Meroon, Alma, Kades, Belinas . . . 82
Damascus . . . . . . . . 83— 86
CONTENTS. DC
Jela’ad, Salkhat, Ba’a lb ek .........................................86
Thadmor, Cariateen.....................................................87
Hamah; Reiha, Aleppo; B ales..................................88
Kata' Jiaber, Racca , ...............................................89
Charan, Nisibin; Jezireh ben ,Omar . . . 90
Mosul and N iniveh......................................................91
Rahabab; Karkisia, Juba...............................................92
Chardah, ,Okbera............................................................93
Bagdad .......................................................... 93— 105
Gihiagin.............................................................................105
Babylon; Hillah . . . . . . . . . 106
Napacha..............................................................................107
Sepulchre of Jcheskel. (Ezekiel) . . 107— 110
Al-Kotsonaath; Ain Japhata . ....................................110
Kufa; Sura; SchaQathib . . . . . . . Ill
El-Jubar.............................................................................112
, Thema (Arabia) .......................................112—114
Thanaejin................................ 114
Telmas; Chaibar..........................................................115
Wasetj Bassora, Samarra . . . . . . 116
Khuzestan; Shushan........................................................117
Shushan...............................................................118-120
Rudbar; Hoi wan; Mulehet............................................120
,Am aria......................................................... 121.122
History of David El Roy . . . 122— 127
Hamadan............................................................................127
Dabaristao; Isbahan; Shiras; Giva; Samarkhand 128
Tibet, Khazvin...............................................................129
Expedition of the King of Persia against
the Ghuz............................................130— 136
Island of Kish.............................................136. 137
El-Cathif, Pearl Fishery..........................137. 138
Chulam..........................................................138 — 141
X CONTENTS.
Khandy........................................................141—143
Sea of Nikpha........................................ 143. 144
Gingaleb, Khulan, Sebid.......................................144
AFRICA.
Nubia, Assuau.........................................................145
Chaluah...................................................................146
F^juhra, Mitsraim...................................................147
Mit9raim, T soan..................................147—153
Old-Mitsraim........................................................153
Belbeis, Sefita, Damira, Mahaleb............................154
Alexandria.............................................155—158
Damietta, Sunbat......................................158 .י
Ailah.........................................................................159
EU ROP E.
Sicily, Messina............................................ . 159
Palermo . .־ ................................................160
Catania, Trapani, Rome, Lucca . . . . . 161
Cologne, Germany.................................. 162.163
Bohemia, Sclavonia, France.................................164
France.........................................................................165