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The Antiquities of Constantinople / With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That City: TO Richard Banner, Esq; OF PERRY-HALL, IN THE County of STAFFORD.

The Antiquities of Constantinople / With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That City
TO Richard Banner, Esq; OF PERRY-HALL, IN THE County of STAFFORD.
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  2. THE Antiquities OF CONSTANTINOPLE. With a Description of its SITUATION, the Conveniencies of its PORT, its PUBLICK BUILDINGS, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and other CURIOSITIES of that CITY. With Cuts explaining the Chief of them.
    1. In Four Books. Written Originally in Latin by Petrus Gyllius a Byzantine Historian.
    2. TO Richard Banner, Esq; OF PERRY-HALL, IN THE County of STAFFORD.
    3. THE PREFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR.
    4. CONTENTS.
    5. THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR, Describing the Situation of Constantinople, the Conveniences of its Port, and the Commodities in which it abounds.
    6. THE ANTIQUITIES OF Constantinople. BOOK I.
      1. Chap. I. Of the Founders of Byzantium, and the different Successes and Revolutions of that City.
      2. Chap. II. Of the Extent of Old Byzantium.
      3. Chap. III. Of the Rebuilding of Byzantium by Constantine the Great, and the Largeness of it in his Time.
      4. Chap. IV. Of the present Figure, Compass, Length and Breadth of Constantinople.
      5. Chap. V. A general Description of Constantinople.
      6. Chap. VI. Of the Situation of all the Parts of the City describ’d.
      7. Chap. VII. Of the first Hill, of the Palace of the Grand Seignor, of the Church of St. Sophia, and the Hippodrom.
      8. Chap. VIII. Of the first Valley.
      9. Chap. IX. Of the second Hill.
      10. Chap. X. Of the second Valley, which divides the second from the third Hill.
      11. Chap. XI. Of the third Hill.
      12. Chap. XII. Of the third Valley.
      13. Chap. XIII. Of the fourth Hill.
      14. Chap. XIV. Of the Fifth Hill.
      15. Chap. XV. Of the Fifth Valley.
      16. Chap. XVI.
      17. Chap. XVII. Of the Valley which divides the Promontory from the seventh Hill.
      18. Chap. XVIII. Of the seventh Hill.
      19. Chap. XIX. Of the Walls of the City.
      20. Chap. XX. Of the Gates of Constantinople, and the seven Towers of Old Byzantium.
      21. Chap. XXI. Of the long Walls.
    7. THE ANTIQUITIES OF Constantinople. BOOK II.
      1. Chap. I. Of the Buildings and Monuments of Old Byzantium and Constantinople, called New Rome.
      2. Chap. II. Of the Ancient Monuments of the first Hill, and of the first Ward of the City.
      3. Chap. III. Of the Church of St. Sophia.
      4. Chap. IV. A Description of the Church of St. Sophia, as it now appears.
      5. Chap. V. Of the Statues discover’d on one Side of the Church of St. Sophia.
      6. Chap. VI. Of the Pharo on the Promontory Ceras, and the Mangana.
      7. Chap. VII. Of the Bagnio’s of Zeuxippus and its Statues.
      8. Chap. VIII. Of the Hospitals of Sampson and Eubulus.
      9. Chap. IX. Of the Statue of Eudoxia Augusta, for which St. Chrysostom was sent into Banishment.
      10. Chap. X. Of those Parts of the City which are contain’d in the third Ward.
      11. Chap. XI. Of the Hippodrom, its Obelisk, its Statues, and Columns.
      12. Chap. XII. Of the Colossus.
      13. Chap. XIII. Of some other Columns in the Hippodrom.
      14. Chap. XIV. Of the Church of Bacchus, the Court of Hormisda, and the House of Justinian.
      15. Chap. XV. Of the Port of Julian, and Sophia; of the Portico nam’d Sigma, and the Palace of Sophia.
      16. Chap. XVI. Of the Fourth Ward.
      17. Chap. XVII. Of the Forum called the Augustæum, of the Pillar of Theodosius, and Justinian, and the Senate-House.
      18. Chap. XVIII. Of the Imperial Palace, the Basilica; of the Palace of Constantine, and the House of Entrance nam’d Chalca.
      19. Chap. XIX. Of the Basilica, and the Imperial Walks.
      20. Chap. XX. Of the Imperial Library, and Portico; as also of the Imperial Cistern.
      21. Chap. XXI. Of the Chalcopratia.
      22. Chap. XXII. Of the Portico’s situate between the Palace, and the Forum of Constantine.
      23. Chap. XXIII. Of the Miliarium Aureum and its Statues, and of the Fortune of the City, and her Statue.
      24. Chap. XXIV. Of the Temple of Neptune, of the Church of St. Mina, (or Menna) of the Stadia, and the Stairs of Timasius.
      25. Chap. XXV. Of the Lausus, and its Statues; namely, a Venus of Cnidos, a Juno of Samos, a Minerva of Lindia, a winged Cupid, a Jupiter Olympius, a Saturn, Unicorns, Tygers, Vultures, Beasts that are half Camels, and half Panthers; of the Cistern of the Hospital called Philoxenos, and the Chrysotriclinium.
    8. THE ANTIQUITIES OF Constantinople. BOOK III.
      1. Chap. I. Of several Places in the fifth Ward, and the second Hill; of the Neorium; of the Port nam’d the Bosporium; of the Strategium, and the Forum of Theodosius.
      2. Chap. II. Of the sixth Ward, and the remaining ancient Buildings of the second Hill.
      3. Chap. III. Of the Porphyry Pillar, the Forum of Constantine, and the Palladium.
      4. Chap. IV. Of the Senate-House; the Nympheum; the Statues of the Forum of Constantine; of the Philadelphium; the Musæum; the Labarum and Syparum; of the Death of Arius; of the Temples of Tellus, Ceres, Persephone; of Juno and Pluto.
      5. Chap. V. Of the Seventh Ward.
      6. Chap. VI. Of the Street called Taurus, the Forum of Theodosius, the Pillar of Theodosius with Winding Stairs, of the Tetrapylum, the Pyramidical Engine of the Winds, the Statues of Arcadius and Honorius, of the Churches of Hirena and Anastasia, and the Rocks called Scyronides.
      7. Chap. VII. Of the eighth Ward, and the Hind-part of the third Hill.
      8. Chap. VIII. Of the ninth Ward; of the Temple of Concord; of the Granaries of Alexandria and Theodosius; of the Baths of Anastasia, of the House of Craterus; of the Modius, and the Temple of the Sun and Moon.
      9. Chap. IX. Of the third Valley, and the tenth Ward; of the House of Placidia, and her Palace; of the Aqueduct of Valentinian, the Bagnio’s of Constantine, and the Nympheum.
    9. THE ANTIQUITIES OF Constantinople. BOOK IV.
      1. Chap. I. Of the Eleventh Ward, and of the Fourth and Fifth Hills.
      2. Chap. II. Of the Church of the Apostles, the Sepulchre of Constantine the Great, the Cistern of Arcadius and Modestus, of the Palace of Placilla, and the Brazen Bull.
      3. Chap. III. Of the Sixth Hill, and the Fourteenth Ward.
      4. Chap. IV. Of the Hepdomum, a Part of the Suburbs; of the Triclinium of Magnaura; of the Cyclobion; of the Statue of Mauritius, and his Armory; and of the Place called the Cynegium.
      5. Chap. V. Of the Blachernæ, the Triclinium of the Blachernæ, the Palace, the Aqueduct and many other Places of Antiquity.
      6. Chap. VI. Of the Bridge near the Church of St. Mamas; of his Hippodrom; of the Brazen Lyon, and the Sepulchre of the Emperor Mauritius.
      7. Chap. VII. Of the seventh Hill, the twelfth Ward, and of the Pillar of Arcadius.
      8. Chap. VIII. Of the Statues, and the antient Tripos of Apollo, standing in the Xerolophon.
      9. Chap. IX. Of the Columns now remaining on the Seventh Hill.
      10. Chap. X. Of the Thirteenth Ward of the City, call’d the Sycene Ward, of the Town of Galata, sometimes nam’d Pera.
      11. Chap. XI. A Description of Galata; of the Temples of Amphiaraus, Diana, and Venus; of the Theatre of Sycæ, and the Forum of Honorius.
    10. APPENDIX.
    11. AN Explanatory Index.
    12. A DESCRIPTION Of the CITY of Constantinople, As it stood in the Reigns of Arcadius and Honorius.
    13. A DESCRIPTION Of the WARDS of Constantinople.
      1. The first Region, or Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      2. The Second Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      3. The Third Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      4. The Fourth Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      5. The Fifth Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      6. The Sixth Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      7. The Seventh Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      8. The Eighth Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      9. The Ninth Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      10. The Tenth Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      11. The Eleventh Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      12. The Twelfth Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      13. The Thirteenth Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      14. The Fourteenth Ward.
        1. NOTES.
      15. A Summary View of the whole City.
        1. NOTES.
      16. Some Account of the Suburbs as they are mention’d in the Codes and Law-Books.
      17. Of the present Buildings of Constantinople.
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TO
Richard Banner, Esq;
OF
PERRY-HALL,
IN THE
County of STAFFORD.

Sir,

No sooner had my Inclinations prevail’d upon me to publish this Author, but my Gratitude directed me where I should make the Dedication. These Labours are yours by many Obligations. Your Services to me demand them, you have express’d a particular Esteem for Pieces of this Kind, you have assisted me with a valuable Collection of Books in the Translation of them, and you have encourag’d the Performance by the Interest of your Friends; so that if there be any Merit in the Publication of it, ’tis you who are entitled to it.

The Knowledge of Antiquity was always look’d upon as a Study worthy the Entertainment of a Gentleman, and was never in higher Estimation among the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain than it is now. And this Regard which the present Age pays to it, proceeds from a wise Discernment, and a proportionable Value of Things. For we never entertain our Curiosity with more Pleasure, and to better Purposes, than by looking into the Art, and Improvement, and Industry of antient Times, and by observing how they excited their Heroes and great Men to virtuous and honourable Actions by the Memorials of Statuary and Sculpture; the silent Records of their Greatness, and the lasting History of their Glory.

The great Discoveries made of late, and publish’d by a ASociety of Gentlemen, united in the Search of Antiquity, will be lasting Monuments of their Fame in future Times, and will be look’d upon as Arguments of an ingenious Curiosity, in looking into the delectable Situations of Places, in preserving the beautiful Ruines of Antient Buildings, and in setting Chronology in a truer Light, by the Knowledge of Coins and Medals.

But, Sir, what I principally intend in this Dedication, is to do Justice to Merit, and to acquaint the World, That you never look’d upon Licentiousness, and Infidelity, to be any Part of the Character of a fine Gentleman, That Virtue does not sit odly upon Men of a superior Station, and That in you we have an Example of one, who has Prudence enough to temper the innocent Freedoms of Life with the Strictnesses of Duty, and Conduct enough to be Merry, and not Licentious, to be Sociable, and not Austere; a Deportment this, which sets off your Character beyond the most elaborate Expressions of Art, and is not to be describ’d by the most curious Statue, or the most durable Marble. I am, Sir, with very great Regard,

Your most Oblig’d,
And most Obedient Servant,

John Ball.

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