Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 3.6.18
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Caesarea Palestinae

is directly attested at Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 3.6.18. This passage was written ca. 1306-1321 C.E. possibly in Aegean Greece. 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, particularly in the Peloponnese and Aegean islands, Cyprus and Cilicia, Constantinople, the Levant, and Egypt, but also in western and northern Europe. A learned and eloquent advocate for a new crusade to the Holy Land, 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 from his account of the Holy Land discusses the glories of the Kings of Jerusalem and surveys the region’s historical topography, including its coastal sites.

Post praedictas autem quinque civitates Palestinorum sequuntur aliae civitates et munitiones: Iopen scilicet, Arsur, Caesarea Palestinae, Cayphas, Ptolomayda, Tyrus, de quibus omnibus, supra IV. et V. capit. dictum est. Postea Sarepta quam frequentabat Elyas: ibi iuxta portam civitatis modicam capellam aedificaverunt Christiani, ubi filium viduae suscitavit.

[Ed. Bongars 1611] [Minor corr. (punctuation)]

After the aforementioned five cities of the Palestinians other cities and fortifications follow: namely, Iope, Arsur, Caesarea Palestinae, Cayphas, Ptolomaÿs, Tyrus (all these are discussed above, Chapters 4 and 5). After these is Sarepta where Elias lived. There next to the city gate the Christians have built a small chapel on the spot where he revived the son of the widow.

[Adapted from Lock 2011]

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[Arsur (Arsuf)

Cayphas (Haifa)

Iope (Ioppa, Joppa, Joffa, Jaffa)

Palestine

Ptolomayda (Ptolomaïs, Akko)

Sarepta (Zarephath)

Tyre]

[Elijah, prophet]

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