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503:, Art in Translation, 10:1, 11-29, DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2018.1424310 "The selected build-ings are presented in both the ground-plans and corresponding textual descriptions as inscribing the most important traces of Christ’s corporeal presence in and near Jerusalem. These are his footprints on the Mount of Olives enclosed by the Church of the Ascension (Figure 1), the imprints of his face and hands on the Column of the Flagellation inside the Church on Mount Sion (Figure 2), and his empty tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (Figure 3). The fourth ground-plan illustrates the Church at Jacob’s Well in Nablus (Figure 4), assimilated to the form of the Cross.... The illustrations in Adomnán’s book are the first surviving drawings of the Christian pilgrimage churches in the Holy Land." 117:, the form of which Arculf himself depicted for me on a tablet covered with wax" and mentioning the Basilica of Constantine and other features such as the column that marked the center of the Earth. Arculf also saw many 228:
as well as the small church located at the spot where Jesus left his clothes while the baptism took place. Nearby was a monastery and a church built in honor of John the Baptist. Arculf saw the
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Hierusalem civitas famosissima. Die erhaltenen Fassungen des hochmittelalterlichen Situs Jerusalem (mit Abbildungen zur gesamten handschriftlichen Überlieferung)
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The work contains the four earliest known drawings of Christian churches in the Holy Land; three are in Jerusalem (the
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The first book of Adomnán's transcription concerns what Arculf saw during nine months he spent in Jerusalem
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Adomnán’s On the Holy Places: Pilgrimage Manuscripts and Architectural Translation from Jerusalem to Europe
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Adomnan and the Holy Places: The Perceptions of an Insular Monk on the Locations of the Biblical Drama
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to Constantinople, where he stayed from Christmas to Easter. Arculf mentions the relics of the
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over the half-cave of the Nativity, the simple churches, one containing the tomb of
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The second book begins with Arculf's trip to Bethlehem and the church dedicated to
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680 AD, beginning with useful descriptions of "the Sepulchre of the Lord and the
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and the sources of the Jordan, two adjacent springs, named "Jor" and "Dan", the
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Woods, D. ‘Arculf's Luggage: The Sources for Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis’,
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The Diffusion of Adomnán's "De Locis Sanctis" in the Medieval Period
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The brief third book makes quick mention of Arculf's passage via
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Many of these texts have been translated and published by the
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and based upon it his own treatise on the holy places. It was
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is next in the narrative. Arculf's guide, a certain Peter, a
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Paris, B.N. Lat. 13048 (codex P in Geyer) ; 9th century
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Brussels, Bib. roy. 2911-22 (codex B in Geyer);9th century
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such as the miraculous grave cloth of Jesus (compare the
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Vienna, O.N.B. Lat. 458 (codex Y in Geyer); 10th century
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and even those of the shepherds who were present at the
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Tractatus de locis et statu sancte terre ierosolimitane
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was recopied and widely read all over western Europe.
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Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Lat. oct. 32; 15th century
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St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 320 ; 12th century
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The journey then picks up along the 582: 539:Thomas O'Loughlin (1 November 2007). 390:Vatican, Vat. Lat. 636A; 13th century 393:Paris, B.N. Lat. 12943; 11th century 384:Vatican, Reg. Lat. 618; 15th century 314:mentioned Arculf's itinerary in his 97:) and one in Nablus (the Church of 13: 14: 976: 363:(codex Z in Geyer's); 9th century 221:where Arculf saw the place where 38:, a copy being presented to King 34:) was composed by the Irish monk 925:Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society 381:Munich, clm 19150; 10th century 519: 506: 493: 148: 1: 564:This article is based on the 486: 402:Exemplar of Gretser's edition 334: 282: 104: 763:Puteshestive igumena Daniila 499:Kathryn Blair Moore (2018), 445:Adomnan's 'De Locis Sanctis' 408:Salzburg aXII 25, fragment 6 87:Church of the Holy Sepulchre 7: 794:Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan 773:Descriptio de locis sanctis 516:, Ériu, Vol. 51, pp. 93-106 329: 10: 981: 950:7th-century books in Latin 882:Bertrandon de la Broquière 827:Itinerarium terrae sanctae 429: 250:Church of the Annunciation 115:Church constructed over it 17: 921: 850: 812:Libellus de locis sanctis 801:Descriptio terrae sanctae 745: 710: 647: 622: 512:Thomas O'Loughlin, 2000, 240:, where the Lord met the 20:Libellus de locis sanctis 906:Bernhard von Breidenbach 658:Itinerarium Burdigalense 572:written in 1907 for the 451: 415: 396:Laon,B.M.92; 9th century 209:. 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Index

Libellus de locis sanctis
Adomnán
Aldfrith of Northumbria
Frankish
Arculf
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
The Holy Land
Alexandria
Constantinople
the second earliest known map of Jerusalem
Madaba Map
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of Zion
Chapel of the Ascension
Jacob's Well
Church constructed over it
relics
Shroud of Turin
Judas Iscariot
Mount Zion
Mount Olivet
Lazarus
Bethany
Saint Mary
King David
Saint Jerome
Nativity
tomb of Rachel

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