Start of the Memoria in BnF lat. 14693

The Via ad Terram Sanctam is an anonymous treatise on the recovery of the Holy Land from around 1300. A single manuscript of an Old French version survives. In addition, there is a Latin translation bearing a different introduction and omitting a section on the Mongols. The Latin version goes under the title Memoria Terre Sancte.[1] It is preserved in at least five manuscripts.[2]

The Via's editor, Charles Kohler, argues that the original version was written prior to the fall of Tripoli (1289). He also puts forward Otto de Grandson as the author. Alan Forey accepts his dating, but rejects Otto as a potential author.[3] Sylvia Schein argues that the Via depends on the work of Hayton of Corycus and must be later than 1307. Christopher Tyerman prefers a date between these extremes. Antony Leopold dates the French version to shortly after 1293 and certainly before the suppression of the Templars beginning in 1307. The Latin version was created after 1307, since it suppresses mention of the Templars.[1]

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 342, the French manuscript of the Via, is from the early 14th century.[1] It contains mostly astrological texts. In the Latin manuscripts, the Memoria sits mostly alongside geographical texts. It was the geographical interest of the work that led an anonymous Jew to partially translate the Memoria into Hebrew in the 14th century. This religiously neutral Hebrew version of a crusading text is found in a single manuscript, now Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, De Rossi 1426. It is written in Sephardic cursive and was probably produced in Provence.[4]

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Bibliography

  • Forey, Alan (2017). "Otto of Grandson and the Holy Land, Cyprus and Armenia". Crusades. 16: 79–93. doi:10.1080/28327861.2017.12220191.
  • Kohler, Charles (1903–1904). "Deux projets de croisade en Terre-Sainte, composés a la fin du XIIIe siècle et au début du XIVe" (PDF). Revue de l'Orient latin. 10: 406–457.
  • Leopold, Antony R. (2000). How to Recover the Holy Land: The Crusade Proposals of the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries. Ashgate. ISBN 9780754601203.
  • Roth, Pinchas; Rubin, Jonathan (2017). "A Medieval Hebrew Adaptation of Two Crusading Texts: Presentation, Analysis and Edition". Medieval Encounters. 23 (6): 508–530. doi:10.1163/15700674-12340010.
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