This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...of such material.1 He was effectively assisted by the liberality of one Bokam, a wealthy Egyptian, who opened his coffers to defray the charges of the enterprise. The cupola was made double, with an inner and an outer structure, and there was space between the two for a man to walk upright on the top ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...of such material.1 He was effectively assisted by the liberality of one Bokam, a wealthy Egyptian, who opened his coffers to defray the charges of the enterprise. The cupola was made double, with an inner and an outer structure, and there was space between the two for a man to walk upright on the top of the wall on which it rested. At the summit there was in all probability an opening, for the purpose of giving light, just as there was in the later cupola destroyed by fire in A.D. 1808 1 and as there is in the existing cupola set up in A.D. 1870.' When the Moslems came back to Jerusalem, the Patriarch was called to account for what he had done. Fanatical interpreters of the laws relating to the status and rights of " Nazarenes " under Moslem sovereignty held that all repairing of churches was forbidden. But what appears most to have provoked displeasure and wrath was a suspicion that the Church of the Sepulchre---the " Church of Dung "--n0w overtopped the sacred Dome of the Rock. The Patriarch was thrown into prison. To him, as he lay there in the shadow of death, came an old Moslem, who offered to show him a sure and certain way of escape from the wrath of his accusers, on certain conditions. These were a thousand dinars to be paid at once, and lifepensions for the deliverer and his children. The terms were hard, but harder still was the prospect 1 Geyer, op. cit. pp. 246-247. ' These, according to the legend, were forty soldiers in one of the legions stationed on the Armenian frontier of the Roman Empire about A.D. 320. Refusing the common test of loyalty (ofiering incense before the image of the Emperor, or swearing by his numen) they were set to stand naked on a frozen lake. They are commemorated by the...
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299. pp. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Heavy foxing throughout. Cloth boards are badly edge frayed, bumped and torn. Spine panel is detaching at front board. Pencil underlining and markings throughout.
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Good. 1922 Hardcover. Ex-Library. Text is clean. Binding is strong. B & W illustrations, Fold-outs intact. Red cloth cover, stamped borders, lower corners are lightly bumped, cover has some light scratches & marks in the cloth, spine is a bit faded. *No shipping outside the United States available for this heavy book. *
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