Ludolf von Sudheim, Journey in the Holy Land 28
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Context
Ludolf von Sudheim, a cleric in Westphalia during the early 14th
century, travelled extensively in the Eastern Mediterranean in the coterie of a knight
who served the Armenian king. The account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in
1336-1341 is in many ways derivative, but it includes interesting details of archaeology
and natural history. In this passage he recounts the trip south from Carmel through
Caesarea to Arsuf.
Text
De monte Carmelo
transito quodam flumine, qui Iordanis pro parte est origo, pervenitur in
Caesaream Palestinam, quae quondam dicta fuit Dor, nunc
Caesarea Palaestina vocata, sed funditus nunc eversa. In hac
civitate pulchra ecclesia de domo Cornelii, quem Petrus ad fidem convertit, fuit facta.
Eadem civitas, terra sancta recuperata, in portionem cuiusdam militis de partibus istis,
nomine de Horne, fuit devoluta, cuius generis adhuc temporibus meis vixit vidua, quam
saepius bene vidi et de hac materia tractavi. De Caesarea
proceditur et pervenitur in civitatem quondam pulchram, sed nunc desertam, Castrum
peregrini vocatam, sed olim Assur dictam.
1
Textual Note
Ed. Heuyks 1851Translation
After passing over Mount Carmel one crosses a river, which is one of
the sources of the Jordan, and arrives at Caesarea of Palestine,
which was once called Dor and now Caesarea of Palestine, but it is utterly destroyed. In
this city there was a fair church made out of the house of Cornelius, whom Peter
converted to the faith. This same city, upon the recovery of the Holy Land, had come
into the possession of a certain knight of these parts named de Horne, whose
son-in-law’s widow was living even in my own time, for I have often seen her and talked
with her on this subject. Going on from Caesarea one comes to
what was once a fair city but is now deserted called Pilgrim’s Castle, but in old times
Assur.
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Translation Note
Adapted from Stewart 1895Works Cited
- 1 Ludolph von Sudheim, Ludolphi de Itinere Terrae Sanctae, ed. Ferdinand Heuyks (Stuttgart: Litterarisches Verein, 1851), ch: 28, p: 49-50.
- 2 Ludolph von Sudheim, Ludolph von Suchem’s Description of the Holy Land, trans. Aubrey Stewart, repr. New York: AMS Press, 1971, Palestine Pilgrims’ Text Society 27 (London: Palestine Pilgrims’ Text Society, 1895), ch: 28, p: 64-65.
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Joseph L. Rife, “Ludolf von Sudheim, Journey in the Holy Land 28,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/209.
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