Anonymous Pilgrim V, Untitled 2.13
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Context
We know next to nothing about the European traveller to the Holy Land
called Anonymous Pilgrim V, whose account survives in one manuscript in Austria. The editor
Wilhelm Neumann argued that, while his journey seems to have preceded the fall of Jerusalem
in 1187 C.E., certain details reflect knowledge of the end of the 12th or beginning of the
13th century. The work has two parts apparently written by the same author, the first giving
a straightforward itinerary and the second a survey of the region’s ethnography, religions,
and environment. This passage summarizes the ecclesiastical hierarchy in the Patriarchate of
Jerusalem, including the Archbishop of Caesarea.
Text
Preterea et ipsa terra
Ierosolymitana Patriarcham habet, qui est pater fidei et Christianorum et vicarius Ihesu
Christi. Qui habet IIII archiepiscopos. Unum in provincia Palestina scilicet
Cesariensem. Alium in provincia Fenicea, scilicet Tirensem. Tercium
in provincia Galilea, scilicet Nazarenum. Quartum in provincia Moabitarum, scilicet
Ponacensem id est de Monte Reali. Cesariensis habet Ι episcopum
suffraganeum, scil. Sebastenum, ubi sepultus fuit Iohannes baptista et Eliseus et Abdias
propheta. Tirensis ΙΙΙΙ habet suffraganeos: Acconensem, Sidonensem, Beritensem, et illum
Bleinas, que est Cesarea Philippi. Nazarensis habet I Tiberiadensem, Ponacensis vero nullum
Latinum, Grecum vero habet unum in monte Sina.
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Textual Note
Ed. Neumann 1866Discussion Note
Heiligenkreuz Bibliothek 88Translation
Furthermore, the land of Jerusalem has a Patriarch, who is the
father of the faith and Christians and is the vicar of Christ. He has four archbishops:
one in the province of Palestine, namely, the Archbishop of Caesarea; the second in the province of Phoenicia, namely, the
Archbishop of Tyre; the third in the province of Galilee, namely, the Archbishop of
Nazareth, and the fourth in the province of Moab, namely, the Archbishop of Petra, or of
Montreal. The Archbishop of Caesarea has one suffragan bishop,
namely, the one of Sebaste, where John the Baptist, Elisha, and Abdias are buried. The
Archbishop of Tyre has four suffragans: the bishops of Acre, Sidon, Beirut, and Bleinas,
which is Caesarea Philippi. The Archbishop of Nazareth has one suffragan, the bishop of
Tiberias, while the Archbishop of Petra has no Latin suffragan but a Greek one on Mount
Sinai.
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Translation Note
Adapted from Stewart 1894Works Cited
- 1 Wilhelm Anton Neumann, Drei mittelaltliche Pilgerschriften, Österreichische Vierteljahresschrift für katholische Theologie 5 (1866): 211–82, p: 267-268.
- 2 Anonymous Pilgrim V, [On the Holy Land], in Anonymous Pilgrims, I.-VIII, trans. Aubrey Stewart, repr. New York: AMS Press, 1971, Palestine Pilgrims’ Text Society (London: Palestine Pilgrims’ Text Society, 1894), 22–36, p: 30-31, section: 2.13.
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Joseph L. Rife, “Anonymous Pilgrim V, Untitled 2.13,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/281.
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