Volume 1

The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri].

Louis Moréri

Date:: 1701

Credit: The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$BO ME, a great Bowl of Iron, filled with Artificial Fire and Nails, which is thrown into beiieged Places, in order to mine them. Mez.erKy,m the Reign ot Francis I. defcribes Bombs after this manner: They are, faith he, certain great Granades, long, or round, which are charged with Gun-powder, and fired froon a Mortar to make them fall upon any place, where they make -a double Havock, both by their weight when they fall, and by the violence of the Powder. They put to the Hole of the Bomb a Squib, which is fo ordered, that it gives fire to the Powder of the Bomb about a Moment after its fall. To throw the Bomb, the Match is put to the Squib, and at the fame time to the Hole of the Mortar, which driveth the Bomb into the Air. BOMBARD, a thick and fliort Cannon, fo named, from the Latin word Boinbus, or from the Greek becaufe it makes a great Noife. BO MB El, or Bombaira, a Town in the Eafi-lndies, which was refigned to the Englijh by the Portuguefe, as a Part of the Portion of Katharine the Wife of Charles II. It lies in the Indian Ocean, on the Weft fide of the Cape of Malabar, in the Kingdom of Decam, between Suratt to the N. and Goa to the S. BO MB ERG, {Daniel) a Famous Printer of Jntwerp, went to fettle himfelf at Venice, where he Printed a great quantity of Hebrew Bibles, the moft part of which are much efteemed for the Exaftnefs of the Correftion, and the Beauty of the Characters. From this Pcefs came alfo fe- veral Works of Rabbins in their Tongue, that have ren¬ der’d the Name of Bomberg as famous amongft the Jews as amongft us. They fay that he fpent vaft Sums of Money to Print Books; and that he Printed amongft others, the Thalmud three times, ifaac VoJJtus. BO MB INI, {Paul) Born at Cofenza \\\ Calabria, liv’d under the Pontificate of Paul V. and Urban VIII. He w^rs a good Linguift, underftood the Polite part of Learning ; and was both Orator, Philofopher, and Divine. He wrote the Abridgment of tire Hiftory of Spain, and publifti d it in the Year 11534. Allatiiu in Appib. Urban. Nicholas Antonio Bibl. Ext. Hifp. &c. BO MB ON, a Province of Southern America in Peru, about the Lake of Chincacocha, and the River Xauva, called alfo Rio of Maragnon. BOMILCAR, General of the Carthaginians, was fo allarm’d at the Exploits of Agathocles in Africk, that he defign’d to deliver him the City of Carthage, had it not been for a Sedition w’hicli arofe in the Enemies Camp. The Carthaginians, full of Indignation for this Defign, hanged him in the Market-place, that he might receive the Punilhment of his Crime in the fame Place where he had received the Ornaments of his Dignity, Anno 448. of Rome. BOMILCAR, Murthered Majfiva at the Inftigation of ^agartha; but having afterwards confpired with Mabdalfa againft Jugurtha himfelf, the Treachery was difeovered, and the Traytor punilhed. Sallufl. Bed. Jugurth. BOM MEL, a ftrong Place of the Dutchy of Guelder^ land in the Low-Countries, which gives Name to the Ifle of Bommel, formed by the Meufe and Vahal, betwixt Utrecht, Bois-le-Duc, Buren, &c. Otho VII. Earl of Guelderland, caufed it to be furrounded with Walls, in 1229. and mondl. founded there a College of Canons in 1303. Some call it Saltsbommel, xSm. is, Bommel of the Salt-Houfcs, to diftinguifti it from another fmall Village, which is not far from it, called Maesboonmel. Others believe that the Iftc of Bommel, called Bommelweert, is the Ifle whereof C^far fpeaks, and calls it Infula Batavorum. Tire Geographer Sanfon, in his Remarks upon the Ancient Gaul, places this Ifland betwixt the ancient Chanel of the Rhine and the Vahal, which now comprifes the Betuwe that makes part of the Dutchy of Guelderland, and of South-HoUand. The French took this Town in 1672. and the next Year quitted and difmantled it. It is eight Miles North of Boifieduc, i8 South of Utrecht, and 42 South of Amfierdam, &c. Valerius Andreas. BOMONICKS, Young Men of Lacedamonia, who took pride to endure the lalhes of Whips, which w^ere given them at the Sacrifices of Diaota. This Name cometh from BuijjiQ-, Altar, becaufe they were fcourged before the Altar of this Goddefs. B O N A, a Piemontoife, a very Learned and Devout Man; was created Cardinal by Clement IX. who being dead, moft did wilh that Bona fliould have fucceeded him ; whereupon this Epigram following w'as compos’d : Crammaticee leges plerumquc Ecclefia fpernit: For^e erit ut liceat dicere Papa Bona. To which this Anfwer was made : Vana folacifmi ne te conturbet imago; Effet Papa Bonus, fi Bona Papa foret. This Great Man died OSlohtr 25. 1574. His Wo^ks arc, Dt Divina Pfalmodia. • Manuduclie ad Ctelum. Via compendii ad - Deum. De rebus Ltturgicis. De dijo-etione Spiritmon. De difi cretione vita Chrifiiana, &c. BONACIOLI, (Lewis) an eminent Phyfician of Ferrara, flourifliing in the year 1530. Authors mention him whth advantage, and the Works which he has written, juftifie that Charafter. De Uteri Partiumq-, confeBi^ne. Dt Conceptionis Indiciis, fyc. Jujius in Chron. Medic. Vander Lin¬ den de Script. Med. BONA ROTA, (Michael Angelo) a famous Painter and Carver, was Son to Lewis Buonmrnoti Simoni, of the ancient Houfe of the Earls of Canojfa. He was born in 1474. in a Caftle called Chiufi, in the Country of Arezzo, w-here his Father and Mother then lived. And fome time after, being returned to Floresice, he was put to Nurfe at a Vil¬ lage called Settignant, wherein the moft part of the Inha¬ bitants were Carvers, and amongft others, the Husband of his Nurfe ; which made him fay, that he had fuck'd the Art of Carving with his Milk. He had fo ftrong an Inclination for Defigning, that his Parents were forc’d to bind him Prentice to Dooninick Ghirlandafo. At the Age of 16 Years he betook himfelf to Carve Figures in Marble, which furprized all thofe who faw them. Pope JuliusU.. employed him, and often gave him marks of his Efteem and Gratitude. Michael. Angelo w^as ^Ifo beloved, and courted by, the Popes, Leo X. Clement Wll. Paul III. Julius III. and Paul IV. He was much efteemed by King Francis I. Emperor Charles V. Cofmo de Medicis, the Venetians, and even by Solyman Empe¬ ror of the Turks, and all the Princes and great Lords of Europe. He died at Rome in 15(54. being 88 Years and ii Months old ; and a little while after, his Body was tran- fported to Florence, where all the fine Wits in Arts and Sci¬ ences laboured to make him magnificent Obfequies. This Michael-Angelo was profoundly skill’d in Painting, Sculp¬ ture and Architefturc, and has the Name of the greateft Defigner that ever was; and it’s Univerfally allowM him, 1 That never Painter in the World underftood Anatomy fo well. His moft celebrated piece of Painting, is that of the Laft Judgment, in the Pope’s Chapel. Frefney's Tranllatioa of the Art of Painting, p. 26$. &c. Vafari, Felihien, &c. BONASIAN SjHereticks of the Fourth Age,who faid^ That Jefus Chrifi was the Son of God only by Adoption. BONAVENTURE, or Bahya de Bonaventura, finus Bonaventura, a Gulph of Southern America, in Popayan. BONAVENTURE, Cardinal, called the Seraphick DoBor; his own Name was John Fidauze, and he was a Na¬ tive of Balnea Regia, commonly Bagnarea, a fmall Town ia Tufeany. He took the Habit of a Francifean Monk, Studied under Alexander Alenfis, was Doftor of Parts, and taught Divinity in that City and elfewhere, with great applaufe. At 34 years of Age, he was made General of his Order, in 125(5. After the Death of Clement IV. the See being vacant about Three years, and the Cardinals not agreeing upon the Eleftion of a new Pope, left the chufing of one to Bonaventure, engaging themfelves by a mutual Promife, to acknowledge him whom he fliould Name, though it fliould be himfelf. But he (ihofe Theobald Archdeacon of Liege, who was then in the Holy-Land, and took the Name of Gregory X. This Pope made him a Cardinal, and Bifliop of Alba in 1272. and ordered him to aflift at the Eleventh General Council of Lyons. He was prefent at the firft Selfion held May 7. 1274. and died fome days after in that City on Sunday, July !<;. We have feveral Editions of his Works, conformable to tliofe of Roone, in Eight Tomes, where fome other Treat! fes have been inferred ; but thofe of tills Cardinal are eafily difeerned from the reft. Bellar. min, Spotidan. John Gerfon. BONAVENTURE, or Bonaventura, {Frederick) Bom at Urbin, where he lived in the latter End of the iCtli Century. He was a General Scholar, and particularly, a great Grecian and Philofopher. He was a Favourite to the Duke of Urbin, and minded Learning more than Intcreft. His Works are, De Vent is. De OBo-Mefiri Pariu. DtMonfiris. De Aifiu Maris. De Via LaBea. De Cane Rabido. Dt Jure Regni,.&c. Jatnis Nidus Erythraus. Pin.i. Imag. lUufi, C. 15 I. BONCIARI, (Mark Antony) of Perugia, in Italy. He liv’d to the Beginning of the 17 th Century, and was veiy much valued for his Learning. He wrote a Volume of Epiftles ; a Greek Grammar; divers Poems; Triumphut Augufus-, Seraphidos, Lib.-^.&c. Janus NidusErytlorsens. Pin.i. Imag. lUufl. C.53. BONCONVENTO, or Bonconvent, a fhrvall City of Italy in Tufeany, near Sienna, fituated on a Hil]. It was here that the Emperor VII. Was Poyfon’d ip 13x3- BONCOURT, a Village fituated upon the Eureyf/ithia a League and quarter of P^y, in the Diocefe of Evrtux in Normandy. This Village was burnt in 1666, 1667, 1^5(58, and 1(559. by an extraordinary Fire, the natural Cqule whereof could never be difeovered. It leized moft of the Houfes at different Seafons; fometimes in Rooms, Ib/ne* times in Barns, fometimes in Stables, fometimes op the Walls and Dunghills. H refembled an. Ignis fatuips, or A- S' . V’ ■A-- ■ 2.^ I$

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