Itineraria Terrae Sanctae minora: Innominatus VII and its Variants

I am most grateful to the staff of the various European libraries who responded so helpfully and efficiently to my queries and requests for digital images of the MSS examined in this paper, as well as to the unidentified readers who commended on an earlier draft.

Abstract

This paper presents new editions of eight varying versions, five in Latin and three in French, of a short pilgrimage guide to the Holy Land, which Titus Tobler in 1874 first referred to as Innominatus VII. The Latin versions appear to date from c.1165–70 and the French ones somewhat later, though, leaving aside another version (not edited here) that was incorporated into the Rothelin version of the Continuation of William of Tyre around 1261, none of them contains information that would necessarily indicate a date later than the Third Crusade. The discussion and commentary examine the relationship of the texts with each other and with other earlier and contemporary pilgrimage texts, such as those of John of Würzburg (c.1165) and Theoderic (1172), as well as highlighting the new information that they contain about churches, monumental inscriptions and the traditions associated with particular sites and buildings that are not recorded elsewhere.

Notes

I am most grateful to the staff of the various European libraries who responded so helpfully and efficiently to my queries and requests for digital images of the MSS examined in this paper, as well as to the unidentified readers who commended on an earlier draft.