ABSTRACT

This paper presents new editions of five anonymously written pilgrimage guides to the Holy Land dating from the twelfth to the early fourteenth century. In each case the existing nineteenth-century editions of these were based on a single manuscript, but in all but one it has now been possible to consider variant and sometimes more detailed versions. These have not only revealed new information about a number of the places and buildings described in the guides but have also provided further illustration of how such texts developed.