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Mount Tabor , from Maundrell's book A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter AD 1697 Henry Maundrell (1665–1701) was an academic at Oxford University and later a Church of England clergyman, who served from 20 December 1695 as chaplain to the Levant Company in Syria. His Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 (Oxford, 1703), which had its origins in the diary he carried with him on his Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1697, has become an often reprinted "minor travel classic." It was included in compilations of travel accounts from the mid-18th century, and was translated into three additional languages: French (1705), Dutch (1717) and German (1792). By 1749, the seventh edition was printed. Text of 1810 reprint of Maundrell's book Maundrell, Henry (1705). Voyage d'Alep à Jerusalem, à Pâques en l'année 1697. Par Henri Maundrell...Traduit de l'anglois (in French). chez Guillaume van Poolsum, marchand libraire. The Journey to Jerusalem "was republished in 1707, four years later. The third edition, published in 1714 included an added account, An Account of the Author's Journey to the Banks of the Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia . ...The book appeared in several collections of travel writings, starting in 1750." ( Brickman, "Christian Pilgrims in the Holy Land: Taxation of the Ottoman Empire: Henry Maundrell— A Journey From Aleppo to Jerusalem in 1697 " ). Bibliographical details in Hachicho 1964:43, notes.
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Henry Maundrell (1665–1701) was an academic at Oxford University and later a Church of England clergyman who served from 20 December 1695 as chaplain to the Levant Company in Syria . His Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 (Oxford, 1703), which had its origins in the diary he carried with him on his Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1697, has become an often reprinted "minor travel classic." It was included in compilations of travel accounts from the mid-18th century, and was translated into three additional languages: French (1705), Dutch (1717) and German (1792). By 1749, the seventh edition was printed. Colorado State University: A Journey to Jerusalem : biographical notes and text from 1823 reprint. The Journey to Jerusalem "was republished in 1707, four years later. The third edition, published in 1714 included an added account, An Account of the Author's Journey to the Banks of the Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia . ...The book appeared in several collections of travel writings, starting in 1750." ( Brickman, "Christian Pilgrims in the Holy Land: Taxation of the Ottoman Empire: Henry Maundrell— A Journey From Aleppo to Jerusalem in 1697 " ). Bibliographical details in Hachicho 1964:43, notes. (Colorado State University) "Traveling to Jerusalem"
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Henry Maundrell (1665–1701) was an academic at Oxford University and later a Church of England clergyman who served from 20 December 1695 as chaplain to the Levant Company in Syria . His Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 (Oxford, 1703), which had its origins in the diary he carried with him on his Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1697, has become an often reprinted "minor travel classic." It was included in compilations of travel accounts from the mid-18th century, and was translated into three additional languages: French (1705), Dutch (1717) and German (1792). By 1749, the seventh edition was printed. Colorado State University - Pueblo: A Journey to Jerusalem : biographical notes and text from 1823 reprint. The Journey to Jerusalem "was republished in 1707, four years later. The third edition, published in 1714 included an added account, An Account of the Author's Journey to the Banks of the Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia . ...The book appeared in several collections of travel writings, starting in 1750." ( Brickman, "Christian Pilgrims in the Holy Land: Taxation of the Ottoman Empire: Henry Maundrell— A Journey From Aleppo to Jerusalem in 1697 " ). Bibliographical details in Hachicho 1964:43, notes. (Colorado State University - Pueblo) "Traveling to Jerusalem"
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Mount Tabor , from Maundrell's book A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter AD 1697 Henry Maundrell (1665–1701) was an academic at Oxford University and later a Church of England clergyman, who served from 20 December 1695 as chaplain to the Levant Company in Syria. His Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 (Oxford, 1703), which had its origins in the diary he carried with him on his Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1697, has become an often reprinted "minor travel classic." It was included in compilations of travel accounts from the mid-18th century, and was translated into three additional languages: French (1705), Dutch (1717) and German (1792). By 1749, the seventh edition was printed. Colorado State University – Pueblo: A Journey to Jerusalem : biographical notes and text from 1823 reprint. The Journey to Jerusalem "was republished in 1707, four years later. The third edition, published in 1714 included an added account, An Account of the Author's Journey to the Banks of the Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia . ...The book appeared in several collections of travel writings, starting in 1750." ( Brickman, "Christian Pilgrims in the Holy Land: Taxation of the Ottoman Empire: Henry Maundrell— A Journey From Aleppo to Jerusalem in 1697 " ). Bibliographical details in Hachicho 1964:43, notes. (Colorado State University – Pueblo) "Traveling to Jerusalem"
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