Ludolphi de itinere terrae sanctae liber

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 (180267).