Barker, Ethel Ross - Rome Of The Pilgrims And The Martyrs - A Study In The Martyrologies, Itineraries Syllogae, And Other Contemporary Documents

Methuen, 1913, 1st edition. Cloth, G+. xvi+379pp, b/w frontis, 4 b/w plates, 1 table, index, cloth bright, edges a little bumped, ex Library copy with accession number to the base of the spine, front endpaper pasted to the pastedown, ink stamp to the title, a fiar copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ An account of the literary & epigraphical materials for the history of the earliest Christians & pilgrims in Rome. The book covers the Liber Pontificalis, Acta Martyrum, Syllogae etc and 'should be of considerable use to those who are beginning the serious study of the Christian antiquities of Rome' [The Journal of Roman Studies, Volume 4].