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The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela

Benjamin, of Tudela, active 12th century; Adler, Marcus Nathan, 1837-1911 [Translator]· 2 chapters· 14,934 words

[Footnote 60: Socin, the author of Baedeker's _Handbook to Palestine and Syria_, p. 557, gives the year of the earthquake 1157. It is referred to again p. 31. There was a very severe earthquake in this district also in 1170, and the fact that Benjamin does not refer to it furn...

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[Footnote 60: Socin, the author of Baedeker's _Handbook to Palestine and Syria_, p. 557, gives the year of the earthquake 1157. It is referred to again p. 31. There was a very s...

2. Chapter 2

Literature_, p. 133; Joseph Sambari's Chronicle in Dr. Neubauer's _Anecdota Oxoniensia_, p. 118. Sambari must have had Benjamin's _Itinerary_ before him, as has been pointed out...