Ludolphi de itinere terrae sanctae liber

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

Very little is known about Ludolf von Suchem, who made a journey to the Holy Land in 1336–41 and later described his experiences in considerable detail. This edition of the Latin text of his narrative was published in 1851, with German annotation, by Ferdinand Deycks (1802–67).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).