Terminus a quo


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TERMINUS A QUO. The starting point of a private way is so called. Hamm. N. P. 196.

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Given the already established terminus a quo, this can only be referring to the declaration of war of 19 May 1635.
We thus have a new terminus a quo and, in view of the multiple references to 1634, reasonable grounds for assuming that the French declaration of war may also be a plausible index of the terminus ad quem; in other words, that Byrsa Basilica was definitely written in 1635, and likely before the appearance of the eighth part of The Swedish Intelligencer at the end of the year.
The date of 'Byrsa Basilica' and 'The Swedish Intelligencer'(s) of 1635
The conceptual terminus a quo of the exhibition is Claudio Tolomei's 1542 description of the publication program of the Accademia Vitruviana in Rome (which was never achieved, but which early advocated the systematic publication of sources for the study of the Roman world); its terminus ad quem is Jacob Spon's systematization of the field in his 1685 Miscellanea eruditae antiquitatis.
Archaologie der Antike: aus den Bestanden der Herzog-August-Bibliothek, 1500-1700
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