Gesta Dei per Francos by Jacques de Bongars
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Excerpts English from Bongars (1611)
- Secunda pars historiae Iherosolimitane is included in Bongar's (1611) compilation. Pages 610-611 contain reports of earthquakes reported between 1113 and 1115 CE
- from Bongars (1611:610-611)
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A.D. 1113 ... The sea is more turbulent than usual; and denying the ability to fish in the seas: the earth is shaken twice, a horrible earthquake; and the overthrow of the building(s), he threatens mortals with fear of dying. ...
A.D. 1114 before an infinite number of locusts swarmed from parts of Arabia, the territory of the Jerusalemites, was violently devastated for several days: in the month of April and May and following a horrible earthquake concussed; Some parts of the city of Mamistria were overthrown; in the country where Antioch had a great number of towns, some in the middle, some in the whole; They call it the sea, the people of the whole world are overwhelmed by the sudden collapse of the buildings, alas for grief! terribly & miserably extinguished: in the Euphrates also the town, which they call Trihalec, is thoroughly euerlum (overthrown ?).
A.D. 1115 ... In the same year, an earthquake overthrew Mamistria, a city once illustrious by fate; and most other places in the territory of Antioch, shaking with horror. ...Latin from Bongars (1611)
- Secunda pars historiae Iherosolimitane is included in Bongar's (1611) compilation. Pages 610-611 contain reports of earthquakes reported between 1113 and 1115 CE
- from Bongars (1611:610-611)
M.C.XIII ... Turbatur & mare plus solito; & vel piscandi maritimis denegat facultate: concutitur & terra bis, tcrraemotu horrifono; & aedificiorue euersionem, arescentibus prae timore minatur mortalibus....
M.C.XIV prius locustarum multitudine infinita ex Arabiae partibus convolante, territorium Hierosolimitanum, per dies aliquot vehementer vastatum est: mense Aprili vel Maio & sequenti terramotu horribiliter cocusliuum; Mamistria urbis pars nonnulla subversa; in regione quoq; Antiochia plurima oppida, quaedam media, quaedam ex integro, folotenus cum parte plebis fubruta: itemque in urbe quam Mariscum nuncupant , populus vniuersus repentinis aedificiorum ruinis praefocatus, heu pro dolor! terribiliter & miserabiliter extinctus: in Eufrarefia etiam opidu, quod Trihalec nuncupant, funditus euerlum.
M.C.XV ... Eodem anno & Mamistriam terraemotu subvertens, urbem olim fatis illustrem; & pleraque alia in territorio Antiocheno loca, horrore fimili concutiens. ...Latin from Bongars (1611) - embedded
- Secunda pars historiae Iherosolimitane is included in Bongar's (1611) compilation. Pages 610-611 contain reports of earthquakes reported between 1113 and 1115 CE
- from Bongars (1611:610-611)
- from archive.org
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