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Unknown, Holy Pilgrimages 7-9

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Context

The Holy Pilgrimages of unknown authorship was composed during the time when the Crusaders had recovered control of Jerusalem, for roughly a decade in the second quarter of the 13th century. It traces two routes for pilgrims, explaining the sites and giving advice for the traveller, one from Acre along the coast to Jerusalem and the second from Jerusalem back to Acre by way of Nablus. This passage describes the segment of the first itinerary from Mount Carmel to Jaffa, providing rich information on geography and on the contemporary state of Christian worship in the region.

Text

(7) Entre Sainte Marguerite et les fréres dou Carme si a .j. cazal qui a non Anne. Iluec, si com on dit, surent forgiés les clous dont Nostre Sires fu crucefiiés, et encore i pert le leu où il furent forgiés. Près de cele montaigne dou Carme a la partie des hermitains latins. A la costiere devers Chasteau Pelerin, si est un leu que on apele Saint Iohan de Tire; là y a un mostier de greus où il a mout de bons saintuaires, et là sist saint Iohan mout de beles miracles. (8) Après vait l’en de Chasteau Pelerin à Cesaire la cité où il i a V liues, ou quel chemin l’en trove Pain Perdu et les salines à main destre sur la mer. En après à main senestre, près de Pain Perdu, si est une chapele de Nostre Dame qui est sor le marais qu’on apele Nostre Dame dou Marais, où l’en vait mout sovent en pelerinages de Cesaire, car il y a saint leu. Ou quel marais a mout de quoquatris, les quels i mist .j. segnor de Cesaire qui les sist aporter de la terre d’Egypte. (9) Après vait on de Cesaire à Arsuf où il a IX liues, ou quel chemin par desus si est Roche Taillée, un mauvais pas, et là se herbergent males gens aucune foiz por tolir le chemin à ceaux qui vont à Iaphe.1

Textual Note

Ed. Michelant and Raynaud 1882

Translation

Between St. Margaret and the Friars of Carmel there is a village called Anne. There, so they say, were forged the nails with which our Lord was crucified, and the place is still to be seen where they were forged. Near Mount Carmel is the land of the Latin hermits. On the side facing Pilgrims’ Castle there is a place called St. John of Tira. There is the monastery of the Greeks, in which there are many good sanctuaries, and there St. John performed many fine miracles. (8) Next one goes from Pilgrims’ Castle to the city of Caesarea, which is 5 leagues. On that road one finds Lost Bread [Pain Perdu] and the salt marsh on the right side, on the sea. After that on the left side near Lost Bread there is a chapel of Our Lady, which is on the marsh and is called Our Lady of the Marsh. People very often go there on pilgrimage from Caesarea because it is a holy place. In the marsh there are many crocodiles, which were put there by a lord of Caesarea who had them brought from the land of Egypt. (8) Next one goes from Caesarea to Arsuf, which is 9 leagues. On that road above is Cut Rock [Roche Taillée], an evil defile; and there wicked people encamp from time to time to block the route to those going to Iaphe.2

Translation Note

Revised from Pringle 2018

Works Cited

  • 1 Unknown, Les sain pelerinages que l’en doit requerre en la terre sainte, in Itinéraires à Jérusalem et descriptions de la Terre Sainte rédigés en français au XIe, XIIe et XIIIe siècles, ed. Henri-Victor Michelant and Gaston Raynaud, repr. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966, Publications de la Societe de l’Orient latin. Serie geographique 3 (Paris: Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1882), 103-104.7, section: 7-9, p: 103-104.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Unknown, Holy Pilgrimages, in Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187-1291, ed. Denys Pringle, Crusade Texts in Translation 23 (London: Routledge, 2018), 167–72, p: 168.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record

Additional Bibliography

  • Sabino de Sandoli, ed., Itinera Hierosolymitana crucesignatorum (saec. XII-XIII) III: Tempore recuperationis Terrae Sanctae (1187-1244), vol. 3, 4 vols., Studium biblicum Franciscanum, collectio major 24 (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1983), p: 465-477.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
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Joseph L. Rife, “Unknown, Holy Pilgrimages 7-9,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/212.

Bibliography:

Joseph L. Rife, “Unknown, Holy Pilgrimages 7-9.” In Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, edited by Joseph L. Rife., edited by Joseph L. Rife. Caesarea City and Port Exploration Project, 2023. Entry published June 30, 2023. https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/212.

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Entry Title: Unknown, Holy Pilgrimages 7-9

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  • Joseph L. Rife, general editor, Vanderbilt University
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