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The Transmission of a ‘Declaracio mappe Terre Sancte’ from the 15th Century: Towards a Digital Edition of a Textual Description of a Grid Map, in Bauer, Martin, Booth, Philip and Fischer, Susanna (Eds.): To Jerusalem and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Latin Travel Literature, c.1200-1500, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2023 (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte, Volume 19), p. 67–90. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.998.c15841

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Susanna Fischer

The Transmission of a ‘Declaracio mappe Terre Sancte’ from the 15th Century

Towards a Digital Edition of a Textual Description of a Grid Map

Abstract In my contribution, I address a set of short Latin pilgrimage texts dated to the 15th century, each containing a written description of a grid map of Palestine (‘Declaracio mappe Terre Sancte’) in which the holy places are located in a grid scheme. After some introductory considerations of maps, grid maps, and pilgrimage narratives, I discuss in the first instance the source of the 15th-century descrip­tion of Marino Sanudo’s ‘Liber secretorum fidelium cru­cis’. The focus of the contribution lies in the transmission of the ‘Declaracio mappe Terre Sancte’ and on the nature of a possible exemplar map or text. The discussion of the transmission leads to considerations about the adequate presentation of the text in a digital edition, visualized by a grid scheme.