Unknown, Pilgrimages and Pardons of Acre 1.1
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Context
The work written by an unknown pilgrim during the third quarter of the
13th century survives in one manuscript in Anglo-Norman French of the 14th century. It has
two parts, the first describing an itinerary that abbreviates Ways and
Pilgrimages, and the second describing pious visits to churches and hospices in
Acre that can reduce the Christian’s soul’s stay in purgatory (i.e., indulgences). The work
begins abruptly with this passage on the coastal route from Acre to Jaffa.
Text
Ces sunt le pelrinages communes, que crestiens fount en la Seinre Terre.
De la vyle de Acres à Seym Elye: iiij. liwes; de cele terre, e de la Cave Seynt Elye à
la Carme, .j. liwe; e de la Carme à Seint Iohan de Tyr .i. liwe. Là yl y a une vile de
Seint Iohan le Baptistre, e à .j. liwe de ileque est le peroun sur qui Dieu se reposa,
devant le Chastiel Pelryn, e dedenz le Chastel gist le cors seint Eufenie, e de près est
Merle: là Seint André nasquis, e deprès si est la cave là où Nostre Dame se mussa ou son
fitz, pur doute des Gyws. E de ileqe à Nostre Dame de Marreis .iij. liwes: là Nostre
Dame se reposa. E d’yleoque à Cesarie.j. liwe. E de yleqe à
Iaphet .xij. liwes: là est un peron qe wn apele le Peroun Seint Iak, e une chapele où
seint Abakuc soleint meindre.1
Textual Note
Ed. Michelant and Raynaud 1882Textual Note
British Library, Harl. 2253, folios 68b-70bTranslation
These are the common pilgrimages that Christians make in the Holy
Land. From the town of Acre to St. Elias is four leages; from that place and from the
Cave of St. Elias to the Carmel(ite Monastery) is one league; and from the Carmel(ite
Monastery) to St. John of Tyr is one league. There is a town of St. John the Baptist,
and one league from there is the stone on which God rested, before Pilgrim’s Castle. And
inside the castle lies the body of St. Euphemia, and nearby is Merle; there St. Andrew
was born, and nearby is the cave where Our Lady hid with her Son out of mistrust of the
Jews. And from there to Our Lady of the Marsh is three Leagues; there Our Lady rested.
And from there to Caesarea is one league. And from ther to Iaphet
is twelve leagues: there is a stone called the Stone of St. James, and a chapel where
Habukkuk used to live.2
Translation Note
Adapted from Pringle 2018Works Cited
- 1 Unknown, Les chemins et les pelerinages de la Terre Saint (av. 1265), Texte A, 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), 177–78, p: 229, ch: 1.1.
- 2 Unknown, The Ways and Pilgrimages of the Holy Land (1244-1265) [Texts A and B], in Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187-1291, trans. Denys Pringle, Crusade Texts in Translation 23 (London: Routledge, 2018), 209–28, p: 229.
Additional Bibliography
- Sabino de Sandoli, Itinera Hierosolymitana Crucesignatorum (Saec. XII-XIII) IV: Tempore Regni Latini Extremo: 1245-1291. Textus Latini Cum Versione Italica, vol. 4, 4 vols., Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Collectio Major 24 (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1984), p: 109-117.
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