Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Publishers' Note
- The will of the Rev. Samuel Purchas, B.D.,
- Dedication
- To the Reader
- A Note touching the Dutch
- The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the First Volume of Purchas His Pilgrimes
- CHAP. I A Large Treatise of King Salomons Navie sent from Eziongeber to Ophir: Wherein besides the Typicall Mysteries briefly unvailed, and many Morall speculations observed; the Voyage is largely discussed out of Divine, Ecclesiasticall and Humane Testimonies: Intended as an historicall Preface to the Histories following.
- CHAP. II Mans life a Pilgrimage. The Peregrinations of Christ, and the first Encompassing the habitable or then inhabited World by the holy Apostles and first Planters of the Gospell
- CHAP. III Of divers other principall Voyages, and Peregrinations mentioned in holy Scripture. Of the travels and dispersions of the Jewes; and of Nationall transmigrations
- CHAP. IIII Fabulous Antiquities of the Peregrinations and Navigations of Bacchus, Osiris, Hercules, the Argonauts, Cadmus, the Græcian Navie to Troy, Menelaus, Ulysses, Æneas, and others
- CHAP. V A briefe recitall of the famous expeditions mentioned in ancient Histories, of the Assyrians, Egyptians, Scythians, Ethiopians, Persians, and others
- CHAP. VI The travels of the antient Philosophers and learned men briefly mentioned
- CHAP. VII Phœnician Voyages, and especially that of Hanno, a Carthaginian Captaine
- CHAP. VIII Iambulus his Navigation to Arabia, and Ethiopia, and thence to a strange Iland, from whence he sayled to Palimbothra in India
- CHAP. IX Great Alexanders Life, Acts, Peregrinations and Conquests briefly related
- CHAP. X The travels of Musæus, Thebæus, and others mentioned by Saint Ambrose ; of others also mentioned in the Ecclesiasticall Histories of Eusebius, Ruffinus, Socrates, and Sozomen
- CHAP. XI A briefe and generall consideration of Europe
- CHAP. XII Enquiries of Languages by Edw. Brerewood, lately professor of Astronomie in Gresham Colledge
- CHAP. XIII Master Brerewoods Enquiries of the Religions professed in the World: Of Christians, Mahumetans, Jewes, and Idolaters; with other Philosophicall speculations, and divers Annotations added
- CHAP. XIIII Relations of divers Travellers, touching the diversities of Christian Rites and Tenents in divers parts of the World
- CHAP. XV Collections out of Peter Stroza, Secretarie to Pope Paul the Fifth, his Treatise of the Opinions of the Chaldæans, touching the Patriarke of Babylon, and the Nestorians in Asia
- CHAP. XVI A briefe Survey of the Ecclesiasticall Politie ancient and moderne, or of the severall Patriarchs, Archbishops and Bishops Sees thorow the Christian world: also of the Jesuites Colledges and numbers, and of other Monasticall Orders
CHAP. XIIII - Relations of divers Travellers, touching the diversities of Christian Rites and Tenents in divers parts of the World
from The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the First Volume of Purchas His Pilgrimes
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Publishers' Note
- The will of the Rev. Samuel Purchas, B.D.,
- Dedication
- To the Reader
- A Note touching the Dutch
- The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the First Volume of Purchas His Pilgrimes
- CHAP. I A Large Treatise of King Salomons Navie sent from Eziongeber to Ophir: Wherein besides the Typicall Mysteries briefly unvailed, and many Morall speculations observed; the Voyage is largely discussed out of Divine, Ecclesiasticall and Humane Testimonies: Intended as an historicall Preface to the Histories following.
- CHAP. II Mans life a Pilgrimage. The Peregrinations of Christ, and the first Encompassing the habitable or then inhabited World by the holy Apostles and first Planters of the Gospell
- CHAP. III Of divers other principall Voyages, and Peregrinations mentioned in holy Scripture. Of the travels and dispersions of the Jewes; and of Nationall transmigrations
- CHAP. IIII Fabulous Antiquities of the Peregrinations and Navigations of Bacchus, Osiris, Hercules, the Argonauts, Cadmus, the Græcian Navie to Troy, Menelaus, Ulysses, Æneas, and others
- CHAP. V A briefe recitall of the famous expeditions mentioned in ancient Histories, of the Assyrians, Egyptians, Scythians, Ethiopians, Persians, and others
- CHAP. VI The travels of the antient Philosophers and learned men briefly mentioned
- CHAP. VII Phœnician Voyages, and especially that of Hanno, a Carthaginian Captaine
- CHAP. VIII Iambulus his Navigation to Arabia, and Ethiopia, and thence to a strange Iland, from whence he sayled to Palimbothra in India
- CHAP. IX Great Alexanders Life, Acts, Peregrinations and Conquests briefly related
- CHAP. X The travels of Musæus, Thebæus, and others mentioned by Saint Ambrose ; of others also mentioned in the Ecclesiasticall Histories of Eusebius, Ruffinus, Socrates, and Sozomen
- CHAP. XI A briefe and generall consideration of Europe
- CHAP. XII Enquiries of Languages by Edw. Brerewood, lately professor of Astronomie in Gresham Colledge
- CHAP. XIII Master Brerewoods Enquiries of the Religions professed in the World: Of Christians, Mahumetans, Jewes, and Idolaters; with other Philosophicall speculations, and divers Annotations added
- CHAP. XIIII Relations of divers Travellers, touching the diversities of Christian Rites and Tenents in divers parts of the World
- CHAP. XV Collections out of Peter Stroza, Secretarie to Pope Paul the Fifth, his Treatise of the Opinions of the Chaldæans, touching the Patriarke of Babylon, and the Nestorians in Asia
- CHAP. XVI A briefe Survey of the Ecclesiasticall Politie ancient and moderne, or of the severall Patriarchs, Archbishops and Bishops Sees thorow the Christian world: also of the Jesuites Colledges and numbers, and of other Monasticall Orders
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- Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his PilgrimesContayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others, pp. 403 - 449Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014