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Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 2.4.25

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Context

Marino Sanudo the Elder of Torcello, from a wealthy and powerful Venetian family, was a statesman and geographer who spent much of his career from the late 13th century until his death in 1338 living and travelling abroad. He reached the Peloponnese and Aegean islands, Cyprus and Cilicia, Constantinople, the Levant, and Egypt, but also western and northern Europe. A learned and eloquent advocate for a new crusade, he wrote the voluminous Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross (Secreta fidelium Crucis), a strategic manual full of economic, military, and geographic detail as well as maps, and presented different versions of it to popes Clement V (in 1307) and John XXII (in 1321). This passage records the landmarks and distances along the coast Levantine, in case such data may be useful to new crusaders.

Text

Carmelum vero mons est altus et planus, supra mare et in mari tanquam longam insulam se ostendens. Cuius montis caput quod est supra mare versus magistrum respicit, in cuius summitate una est ecclesia quae Sancta Margarita vocitatur. A parte autem septentrioni quaedam sicca est, que per unum milliare elongatur. A monte autem Carmelo ad Castrum Peregrinum milia sunt quinque per meridiem navigando. A Castro Peregrino usque ad Caesaream milia sunt XX per meridiem navigando. A Caesarea vero usque ad Arzuffum milia sunt XV per meridiem navigando. Ab Arzuffo usque Ioppen per garbinum navigando milia sunt decem. A monte autem Carmelo usque Damiata nullus mons circa maritima invenitur, sed terra subtilis et plana, et habet rupes albas de sabulo. Infra terram sunt montes alti per astariam gradiendo, qui Ierosolymitani montes apellantur; et omnes montes qui videri possunt usque Carmelum duplices sunt vere. 1

Textual Note

Ed. Bongars 1611

Corrigenda Note

Minor corr. (spelling, punctuation)

Translation

Carmel is a high, flat mountain extending as long as an island both over and into the sea. The peak of this mountain above the sea looks back toward the northwest, and on its summit is a church called Saint Margaret. On its north side is a certain reef that extends for a mile. From Mount Carmel to Pilgrims' Castle is five miles by sailing south. From Pilgrims’ Castle to Caesarea is 20 miles by sailing south. From Caesarea to Arzuffum is 15 miles by sailing south. From Arzuffum to Joppa is ten miles by sailing southwest. From Mount Carmel to Damiata no mountains are to be found along the coast but the land is open and flat, and white rocks protrude from the sand. Inland, proceeding through from the shoreline, are high mountains that are called the Mountains of Jerusalem, and all the mountains that can be seen up to Carmel are twin peaks. 2

Translation Note

Adapted from Lock 2011

Works Cited

  • 1 Marino Sanudo, Gesta Dei per Francos Sive Orientalium Expeditionum et Regni Francorum Hierosolimitani Historia 2: Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis Super Terrae Sanctae Recuperatione et Conservatione, ed. Jacques Bongars (Hanover: Wechelian, 1611), bk: 2.4.25, p: 86.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Marino Sanudo, Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross: Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis, trans. Peter Lock, Crusade Texts in Translation 21 (London: Routledge, 2011), p: 144.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
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Joseph L. Rife, “Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 2.4.25,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/234.

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Joseph L. Rife, “Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 2.4.25.” 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/234.

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Entry Title: Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 2.4.25

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