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ESAU, the son of Isaac and Rebecca, in the Bible, and the elder twin brother of Jacob. He was so called because he was red (admoni) and hairy when he was born, and the name Edom (red) was given to him when he sold his birthright to Jacob for a meal of red lent ...

... , who was ill, but he died on the voyage. Many alchemical writings, including Thesaurus Thesaurorum or Rosarius Philosophorum, Novum Lumen, Flos Florum, and Speculum Alchimiae, are ascribed to him, but they are of very doubtful authenticity. Collected editions ...

... Ancient Funerall Monuments (1631, 1661, Tooke's edit., 1767); Philippe Labbc, Thesaurus epittiphiorum (Paris, 1666); Tktiitrttm funebre extructum a Dodone Richea seu Oltone Aicher (1675); ftaclcett. Select and Remarkable Epitaphs (1757); de Laplace, Epitaphes ...

... enable us independently to reach other results. But the work is not merely a thesaurus, it is a history in a true sense, and it has an intrinsic value of its own, independent of its quotations from other works. Eusebius pomrinrrt extensive sources of knowledg ...

TALMUD, the great Rabbinical thesaurus which grew up during the first four or six centuries of the Christian Era, and, with the Old Testament, became the " Bible " of the Jews, and the chief subject of their subsequent literary activity. i. Contents. — The Tal ...

THESAURUS (Gr. dqaavpfa) , the term in architecture given to the Greek treasure house, and at one time applied to the beehive tombs of Mycenae and other parts of Greece, now recognized as tombs; the subterranean chambers under some of the Greek temples were pr ...