Itinerarium curiosum (centuria II) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain. To which is added, the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester, monk of Westminster. With an account of that author and his workStukeley, William
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Itinerarium curiosum (centuria II) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain. To which is added, the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester, monk of Westminster. With an account of that author and his work
Stukeley, William
Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
promittens, devotus commendo, sperans, ut me simul cœlesti Patri, qui
misericors & condonationis plenus, commendet.
Ex fragmentis quibusdam à Duce quodam Romano consignatis & posteritati
relictis sequens collectum est itinerarium, ex Ptolemæo & aliunde
nonnullis ordinem quoque, sed quod spero in melius, mutatum hinc inde
deprehendes.
* * * * *
FUERUNT olim apud Brittones XCII. urbes, earum verò celebriores &
præ reliquis conspicuæ XXXIII. Municipia scilicet II. Verolamium &
Eboracum. VIIII. Coloniæ sc. Londinium _Augusta_, Camalodunum _Geminæ
Martiæ_, Rhutupis ... Thermæ _Aquæ Solis_, Isca _Secunda_, Deva
_Getica_, Glevum _Claudia_, Lindum ... Camboricum ... Et civitates
Latio jure donatæ X. sc. Durnomagus, Catarracton, Cambodunum, Coccium,
Lugubalia, Ptoroton, Victoria, Theodosia, Corinum, Sorbiodunum. deinde
XII. stipendiariæ minoresque momenti, scilicet: Venta Silurum, Venta
Belgarum, Venta Icenorum, Segontium, Muridunum, Ragæ, Cantiopolis,
Durinum, Isca, Bremenium, Vindonum, & Durobrovæ. At præter allatas modo
urbes plures in Brittaniis non habuisse Romanos ne quis temere credat,
celebriores enim tantum commemoravi, quis enim dubitet, illos, ut orbis
terrarum Dominatores, pro lubitu elegisse sibique vindicasse, quæ suis
usibus commoda intelligebant loca? plerumque aliàs in castris, quæ
condiderant ipsi, degebant.
DIAPHRAGMATA.
RHUTUPIS prima in Brittania insula civitas versus Galliam apud Cantios
sita à Gessoriago Bonnoniæ portu, unde commodissimus in supradictam
insulam transitus obtingit, CCCCL. stadia, vel ut alii volunt XLVI.
mille passuum remota, ab eadem civitate ducta est via Guethelinga
dicta, usque in Segontium per m. p. CCCXXIIII. plus minus sic:
Cantiopoli quæ & Duroverno m. p. X. Durosevo XII. Duroprovis XXV.
deinde m. p. XXVII. transis Thamesin intrasque provinciam Flaviam
& civitatem Londinium, Augustam. Sulo Mago m. p. VIIII. Verolamio
municipio XII. unde fuit Amphibalus & Albanus Martyres. Foro Dianæ
XII. Magio Vinio XII. Lactorodo XII. Isanta Varia XII. Tripontio XII.
Benonis VIIII. hic bisecatur via alterutrumque ejus brachium Lindum
usque, alterum versus Viriconium protenditur sic, Manduessedo m. p.
XII. Etoceto XIII. Pennocrucio XII. Uxaconia XII. Virioconio XI.
Banchorio XXVI. Deva colonia X. fines Flaviæ & Secundæ, Varis m. p.
XXX. Conovio XX. Seguntio XXIIII.
+Iter+ II. à Seguntio Virioconium usque m. p. LXXIII. sic, Heriri monte
m. p. XXV. Mediolano XXV. Rutunio XII. Virioconio XI.
+Iter+ III. à Londinio Lindum coloniam usque, sic: Durosito m. p. XII.
Cæsaro Mago XVI. Canonio XV. Camaloduno colonia VIIII. ibi erat templum
Claudii, Arx triumphalis & imago Victoriæ Deæ. ad Sturium amnem m. p.
VI. & finibus Trinobantum Cenimannos advenis Cambretonio m. p. XV.
Sito Mago XXII. Venta Cenom. XXIII............. Camborico colonia XX.
Durali ponte XX. Durno Mago XX. Isinnis XX. Lindo XX.
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