BOBBIO
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V04,
Page 100
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
BOBBIO
, a See also:town and episcopal see of See also:Lombardy, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Pavia, 322 M
.
S.W. of See also:Piacenza by road
.
Pop
.
(1901) 4848
.
Its most important See also:building is the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church dedicated to St See also:Columban, who became first See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of Bobbio in 595 or 6r2, and died there in 615
.
It was erected in Lombard See also:style in the 11th or 12th See also:century (to which See also:period the campanile belongs) and restored in the 13th
.
The See also:cathedral is also interesting
.
Bobbio was especially famous for the See also:manuscripts which belonged to the monastery of St Columban, and are now dispersed, the greater See also:part being in the Vatican library at See also:Rome, and others at See also:Milan and See also:Turin
.
The cathedral archives contain documents of the loth and nth centuries
.
See M
.
See also:Stokes, Six Months in the See also:Apennines (See also:London, 1892), 154 seq.; C
.
Cipolla, in L'Arte (1904), 241
.
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