The manners, lawes, and customes of all nations / Collected out of the best vvriters by Ioannes Boemus Aubanus, a Dutch-man. With many other things of the same argument, gathered out of the Historie of Nicholas Damascen. The like also out of the History of America, or Brasill, written by Iohn Lerius. The faith, religion, and manners of the Aethiopians, and the deploration of the people of Lappia, compiled by Damianus à Goes. With a short discourse of the Aethiopians, taken out of Ioseph Scaliger his seuenth booke de Emendatione temporum. Written in Latin, and now newly translated into English. By Ed. Aston.

  • Boemus, Joannes, approximately 1485-1535. Omnium gentium mores, leges, et ritus
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1611
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Credit: The manners, lawes, and customes of all nations / Collected out of the best vvriters by Ioannes Boemus Aubanus, a Dutch-man. With many other things of the same argument, gathered out of the Historie of Nicholas Damascen. The like also out of the History of America, or Brasill, written by Iohn Lerius. The faith, religion, and manners of the Aethiopians, and the deploration of the people of Lappia, compiled by Damianus à Goes. With a short discourse of the Aethiopians, taken out of Ioseph Scaliger his seuenth booke de Emendatione temporum. Written in Latin, and now newly translated into English. By Ed. Aston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    x e» N rl 72 07 THE AVTHORS PRE- face to the Reader. HE moft famous and memorable lavwes, cu- ftomes, and manners of all. nations, and the 34^ fituation of each feueral Countrie, which He- | Y rodotus the father of Hittories, Diodorus Sicz- las,Berofus, Strabo,Solinus, Trogus Pompeins | Ptolomy, Pliny, Cornelius Tacitus, Dionyfius Pj SS swe Afer Pomponius Mela, Cafar, lofephus,and oflater Writers, Uzceztius,e]IEnueas Syluius, (who was afterward Pope Pius the fecond ) Autonius Sabellicus, lobannes Nauclerus, Ambrofius (alepinus,Nicbolas Perottus in his books intituled,Cor. aucop/&, and many other famous Hiftoriographers,haue confufed- ly, and(asit were) by parts commended vnto ys intheir Commen- taties: [haue (good diligent Reader) as my leyfure would ferue, collected, abridged , digefted, and compacted together in this what euer you haue occafionto looke for ; which I haue effeAted, not in expectance of gaine, nor affecting popular prayfe, but free- ly, and without other recompence , then the pleafure and profite the thing it f. fe bringeth with it, And herein I haue expreffed as well the.cuftomes of auncient time,as thofe which bein víe at this day; as well the good as the bad, indifferently: that both lying o- pen beforethine eyes, by their examplestheu mayft follow and imitate in the courfe of thy life, thofe which be honeft, holy, and commendable, and auoydthofe which be difhoneft and fhamefül, And hereby thou fhalt perceiue (good Reader) in what perfecti: on and happineffe we now liue at this day, and how fimply, rude. ly, aad vnciuilly our forefathersliued, from the Creation of the world to the generall Floud, and for many ages after, When as : they
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