ABSTRACT
Ayearlater,in1866,WilhelmAntonNeumanneditedthefirstthreequartersofthetreatisefromathirteenth-centurymanuscriptbelongingtothe abbeyofHeiligenkreuz(no.88),inwhichitisprecededbyabriefpilgrimage accountthatstartswiththewords:'EgoivideAcconinCaifa'.Neumannbelievedthatthepilgrimageaccountandthetreatiseformedtwopartsofasingle opuscule,whichhepresentedastheworkofananonymouspilgrim,'InnominatusV'.Hesuggestedthatthepilgrimhadmadehisvoyagebefore1187but hadwrittendownhisaccount(atleastitssecondpart)sometimeafter1198, probablyatthebeginningofthethirteenthcentury,sinceheremarksthatthe kingofArmeniahadrecently(nuper)receivedthecrownfromthearchbishop ofMainz,legateoftheApostolicSee-anditisknownthatthepapallegate, Conrad,archbishopofMainz,waspresentatLeoII'scoronationinJanuary 1198.3Neumann'stranscriptionismarredbymisreadingsandomissions;the
text is provided with copious footnotes. It appears that Neumann became aware of Thomas's edition only when his own article had already gone to the press, for he refers to it just in a footnote and an endnote, noting that the opuscule's second part had been more completely published by Thomas.4 In 1867, Tobler presented the two parts published by Neumann as two distinct works: the first, an anonymous enumeration of the holy places, which he dated to c. 1180; the second, an anonymous description of the Holy Land, the core of which he dated to 1187 or earlier. He realized that the second work was partially identical with the treatise edited by Thomas; it appears that he regarded the De excidio as an integral part of that treatise.5
