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  • Especially valuable for a proper conception of the Mirabilia are the 125 notes appended by

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • He wrote a small book named "Mirabilia", edited by Col.A. Yule for the Hakluyt Society, published in 1863

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Other versions of the story have the child being a daughter, and in the medieval “Mirabilia” the Popess is given a choice in a vision between temporal disgrace and eternal damnation.

    Archive 2009-02-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • Psaultere; Mirabilia testimonia tua, Domine: that is to seyn, Lord, thi merveyles ben thi wytnesse.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • The traditional guidebook, the Mirabilia urbis Romae, composed around the middle of the twelfth century, identifies the Colosseum as a temple of the sun and the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius as the image of a peasant who had saved Rome from the depredations of an invader.

    Rome 1-1000 2000

  • The authorship of the Mirabilia, which had never been discussed by any recognized authority, is treated in a most satisfactory manner by

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Duchesne's theory also explains the curious fact that the Mirabilia should be found in the Liber Censuum, with which it is in no way connected.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • In the third section Jordan discusses at some length the Mirabilia and its redactions (357 sqq.), in the fourth, the earlier divisions of the work (401 sqq.), and in the fifth, the topography of the Mirabilia

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • The "Mirabilia Romae", the first manuscripts of which date from the twelfth century, cites among the places mentioned in the "Passions" of the martyrs the Circus Flaminius ad pontem Judaeorum, but in this sense makes no allusion to the Coliseum.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Naturally, the written references to the catacombs ceased with the visitors, and a stray chapter in the "Mirabilia Urbis Romae" or an odd indication in the "Libri Indulgentiarum" kept alive the memory of those holy places which once attracted a world of pilgrims.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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