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An 1851 edition (with annotation in German) of a fourteenth-century Latin account of a journey to the Holy Land.

Ludolf von Suchem (Author), Ferdinand Deycks (Edited by)

9781108043311, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 June 2012

136 pages
21.6 x 14 x 0.8 cm, 0.18 kg

Beyond the fact that he made a journey to the Holy Land between 1336 and 1341, very little is known about Ludolf von Suchem (whose first name may in fact have been Rudolf). However, his work has long been regarded as a major source of information about the eastern Mediterranean in the fourteenth century, owing to its high level of detail. Ludolf states his intention to describe the region, its buildings, towns, fortified places, people, customs, stories and legends, drawing on both his own observations, and on information from the 'kings, princes, nobles and lords' with whom he spent days and nights in conversation. Some stories are clearly travellers' tales, but others, like his account of the fall of Acre (1291), based on reports by eye-witnesses, are both full and convincing. This edition of the Latin text was published in 1851, with German annotation, by Ferdinand Deycks (1802–67).

Ludolphi ad Baldewinum episcopum paderbornensem praefatio
1. De terra sancta
2. De Constantinopoli
3. De via per terram et de regno Garp
4. De Barbaria et Pugia
5. De mari mediterraneo
6. De diversis maris periculis
7. De periculo Gulph
8. De periculo Grup
9. De periculis siccarum
10. De periculis piscium
11. De diversis piscibus
12. De passagio volucrum
13. De navigatione per mare, de Troia et insulis
14. De Sicilia insula
15. Vulcanus mons
16. Syracusana civitas
17. Achaia
18. Ephesi civitas
19. De diversis maris insulis, inprimis de Rhoda
20. De Cypro
21. De vinca Engadi
22. Civitas Famagusta
23. De Salamina et Nicosia
24. De civitatibus maritimis
25. De gloriosa civitate Acon
26. De perditione civitatis Acon
27. De Gaza et Azoto
28. De monte Carmeli
29. De Aegypto
30. Hortus balsami
31. Christiani et monumenta vetera
32. Babylonia antiqua seu Baldach
33. De Nilo fluvio
34. De terra Aegypti
35. De deserto et monte Sinai
36. De deserto Syriae
37. De Hebron, valle mambre et Bethlehem
38. Ierusalem civitas sancta
39. De triginta denariis
40. Mons Oliveti
41. Desertum, Iericho, Sodoma et Gomorra
42. De Iordane fluvio
43. De Ramatha, Silo, Emaus, Sichar, Samaria et Galilaea
44. Damascus civitas
45. De valle Bokar, Libano et Baruth.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]