Anonymous X, Itinerary of the Holy Places 408
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Context
This brief guide for pilgrims to the Holy Land of unknown authorship
is preserved in a manuscript in Milan that probably postdates composition by only a few
decades. It displays the familiar features of the genre, though all geographic and
biblical content is greatly condensed. This passage opens the itinerary, which advance
south along the coast from Acco past Caesarea.
Text
Si quis voluerit ire ab Acon ad montem Carmelum sunt leugue VIII ubi
fuit beatus Elias propheta. De Carmelo ad Cesaream sunt league
VIII. ibi dicitur esse tabula Domini et quatuor filie Sci. Filippi et locus centurionis
Corneli. Et de Cesarea usque Iopem sunt leugue XII, ubi est
petronus sci. Iacobi Appli.1
Textual Note
Ed. Golubovich 1906Textual Note
Bibliotheca Ambrosiana, Codex O.35 (late 13th century?)Translation
If anyone should want to go from Aco to Mount Carmel, it is 8
leagues to the place where blessed Elijah the Prophet was. From Carmel to Caesarea is 8 leagues. There is said to be the Table of the
Lord and the [tombs of the] four daughters of St. Philip and the site of the centurion
Cornelius. And from Caesarea to Joppe is 12 leagues, and there is
the stone of St. James the Apostle.2
Translation Note
Trans. Pringle 2018Works Cited
- 1 Anonymous X, Itinerarium Sanctorum Locorum, in Bibliotheca Bio-Bibliografica Della Terra Santa e Dell’Oriente Francescano I: 1215-1300, ed. Girolamo Golubovich (Quaracchi: Collegio di S. Bonaventura, 1906), p: 408.
- 2 Ernoul, Chronicle, in Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187-1291, trans. Pringle, Denys, vol. 23, Crusade Texts in Translation (London: Routledge, 2018), p: 173.
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: 101-107.
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Joseph L. Rife, “Anonymous X, Itinerary of the Holy Places 408,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 14, 2021, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/284.
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