Medieval Itineraries: Other itineraries

Itineraries not (yet) included in this site

This is just a hotch-potch of notes on various references I have found over the years. Some of these I intend to plot, but most not. In addition, several hundred itineraries from the later Middle Ages are listed on the digiberichte.de site of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel; most of these are to the Holy Land, but I will investigate those for W Europe in due course.

• Early itineraries to Holy Land

  • There's a good selection of pilgrim accounts and itineraries to the Holy Land on the Travelling to Jerusalem pages at Colorado State University Pueblo
  • other early itineraries to the Holy Land are in Itineraria. Hierosolymitana et descriptiones Terrae Sanctae, ed Titus Tobler & Augustus Molinier, digitised at the Jewish National and University Library (DjVu format) - Conspectus in vol II, pp.ix-x (images 8-9). This includes the Bordeaux pilgrim, and the Vita seu Hodoeporicon S. Willibaldi (pp252, f38) and Itinerarium S Willibaldi. Willibald's itinerary to Rome in 723: Waldheim (Waltham), Hamelea Mutha or Hamwih (i.e. Southampton), Rotum (Rouen) on river Sigona (Seine), Gorthonicum (?), Luca, Roma, Terracina, Caieta (Gaeta), Neapolis, Rhegium (Reggio), Catana, mons Etna, Syracusa to Holy Land. Back via Vulcani, Lipara (ch of St Bartholomew), Didymi mts, Neapolis, Capua, Teanum, Casinum (Montecassino), Roma, Luca, Ticinum (Pavia), Brixiam (Brescia), Cortam (Garda), Eihstat, Frigisingum (Freising). Eng Xlation at Fordham
  • see also Historia Hierosolymitana. Gesta Francorum Iherusalem peregrinantium, in Itinera Hierosolymitana Crucesignatorum, ed Sabino De Sandoli, Jerusalem 1983. Fulcher of Chartres's (Fulcherius Carnotensis) Tales of Frankish Pilgrims to Jerusalem. See Christus Rex site
  • Early Travels in Palestine: Comprising the Narratives of Arculf, Willibald, Bernard, Sæwulf, Sigurd, Benjamin of Tudela, Sir John Maundeville, De la Brocquière, and Maundrell. See Google Books

• Crusaders

  • Richard I's itinerary Vézelay-Marseilles August 1190 given in Ex Ricardi Londoniensis Itinerario Peregrinorum, from Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores, vol. XXVII, p. 209: "Verzelais, Sanctum Leonardum de Curbenai, Mulins, Montem Escot, Tuluns, Sanctam Mariam de Bosco, Belivi, Villamfrancam, Liuns super Rodanum" (Corbigny, Moulins-Engilbert, Mont Beuvray (Beuvrect), Toulon-sur-Arroux, Bois Ste Marie, Belleville, Villefranche, Lyon) [Here Philippe went off to Genova, presumably via Mt Cenis] "Viana apud Albam-ripam, Montem Galoure, Sanctum Bernardum de Rumanz, Valences, Auriolam, Paleys, Sanctum Paulum de Provincia, Montem Dragun, Orenge, Montem de Sorgre, Donpas iuxta Avignon, Senaiz, Salun, Marignane iuxta mare, Marsiliam" (Vienne, Auberives-sur-Varèze, la Motte de Galaure, Romans, Valence, Loriol, Paleys, St Paul-en-Provence, Mondragon, Orange, Pont-de-Sorgues, Bonpas, Sénas, Salon, Marignane, Marseille) http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00000863/images/index.html?seite=217
    The same information is given in Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi p151; p149 of this gives his route from Tours to Vézelay: "Laizi, Montem Ricardi, Cellam, Capellam, Danzi, Vergelay" (Tours, Azay-sur-Cher, Montrichard, Selles-sur-Cher, La Chapelle-d'Angillon, Donzy, Vézelay). Good copy on Google Books. English xlation at http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/richard_of_holy_trinity.pdf pp92-101
  • Philippe-Auguste (Philip II of France), returning from 3rd Crusade, 1191 "Discedens itaque rex Francie a Roma, transitum fecit per castellum Sancti Petri, deinde per Sutre civitatem episcopalem, deinde per Biterve, deinde per Munt-Flascun, deinde per Sanctam Cristinam, deinde per Ekepenndante, deinde per Redcoc, deinde per la Briche, deinde per San Clerc, deinde per Bon-Cuvent, deinde per Senes-la Velle civitatem episcopalem, deinde per la Marche castellum, deinde per Seint-Michel castellum, deinde per Castellum Florentin et per Seint Denis de Bon Repast, et per Arle-le-blanc et per Arle-le-nair et per la Grasse Geline et per le Hospital et per Luchek civitatem episcopalem et per Munt-Cheverol et per Seint-Leonard e per Lune maledictam civitatem episcopalem et per Sanctam Mariam de Sardena et per Lealbile et per Punt-Tremble et per Munt-Bardun et per Seint Beneit in Monte Bardun et per Seint Morant in Monte Bardun; ibi deficit Toscana et incipit Italia. Deinde transivit per cassem Milan, deinde per Furnos et per Seint Donnin et per Florentin et per Plesence civitatem episcopalem, deinde per Morters et per Roable et per Werzeas civitatem episcopalem, deinde per vallem de Moriana; ita quod paulo ante Natale Domini venit in Franciam." From: Benedict of Peterborough, Ex gestis Henrici II et Ricardi I, in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores, vol. XXVII, p. 129-31 http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00000863/images/index.html?id=00000863&seite=137
  • 1189 Barbarossa went by sea from Bremen via England, La Rochelle, Gijon, Galicia (from where visits Santiago) Narratio itineris navalis ad Terram sanctam, in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, 5, p.182

• Other detailed itineraries

  • The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela, by Leopold Zunz, Adolf Asher, Benjamin, Fuerchtegott Schemaja Lebrecht (1840). Set off 1165: pp31-45 Saragossa-Otranto (Marseille-Genua by sea); return 1173 brief description Rome-Maurienne pp159ff. On Google Books: actual text; notes on text
  • Sebastian Ilsung, Viaje de España por un anónimo, 1446-8, edited by Emilia Gayangos Riano. Volker Honemann, Sebastian Ilsung als Spanienreisender und Santiagopilger, in: Deutsche Jakobspilger und ihre Berichte http://www.digiberichte.de/index.php?Full=yes
  • Lev z Rožmitálu a na Blatné, Leo of Rosmithal/Rozmital, Baron of Blatna, brother-in-law of King George of Podebrady (Jiří z Poděbrad), sent by him around European states to promote idea of Christian League 1465-7. 2 accts, one by Schaschek (Václav Šašek v Deníku), lost but xlated into Latin in 1577 by Stanislaus Pawlowski, bishop of Olomouc, one in German by Gabriel Tetzel of Nurnberg; both published in 1844 as Des böhmischen Herrn Leo's von Rozmital Ritter-, Hof- und Pilger-reise durch die Abendlande 1465-1467, beschrieben von zweien seiner Begleiter or Itineris a Leone de Rosmital nobili Bohemo annis 1465-1467 per Germaniam, Angliam, Franciam, Hispaniam, Portugalliam atque Italiam confecti commentarii coaevi duo, ed. J.A. Schmeller, vol VII, Bibliothek des literarischen Vereins, Stuttgart. http://books.google.com/books?id=vaqGgr3vgYUC and http://books.google.com/books?id=QvoSAAAAMAAJ Summary of route from p.197 http://www.saint-jacques.info/leonderosmital.htm has map of lengthy journey and list of shrines visited. 1879 Spanish xlation by Antonio María Fabié for sections in Spain and Portugal in Viajes por España at Biblioteca Virtual Andalucia Xlation pp.47-154 (images 218-325); introduction deals with Rosmithal pp.xvii-lxxiv (images 22-79). (Also contains journey of Georg von Ehingen (public library of Hesse, Hist 141 4; Pfeiffer, Franz (Hg.), Des Schwaebischen Ritters Georg von Ehingen Reisen nach der Ritterschaft, Stuttgart 1842.) which gives overview of trip Toulouse, Pamplona, Logrono, Burgos, Santiago) http://www.digiberichte.de/index.php?Full=yes http://ropdigital.ciccp.es/pdf/publico/1985/1985_diciembre_3242_02.pdf contains comparison of Rosmithal and Geronim Münzer in 1494-5 with Villuga, and lists stages of Munzer's journey with leagues. Both entered Galicia from Portugal, the latter continuing south on VdlP. Viaje de Extranjeros por España y Portugal (Tomo 1), J. García Mercadal. Editorial Aguilar. Madrid 1952. Viaje del noble bohemio León de Rosmithal por España y Portugal (pp260-305) Jerónimo Münzer, Relación de viaje (pp328-417). The Travels of Leo of Rozmital / through Germany, Flanders, England, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy / 1465-1467. From the German account by Gabriel Tetzel, with supplementary passages from the Latin versions (printed in 1577, 1843 and 1951) of the lost account in Czech by Václav Sasek, both having been Rozmital's companions. Translated from the German and Latin and Edited by Malcolm Letts, Cambridge, 1957 (1955). Pages xv, 196 + 2 maps, 5 illustrations.
  • Mapping Margery Kempe at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA, provides the text for the Book of that devoted 15th-century pilgrim, together with commentary
  • Relation d'un voyage fait en Europe et dans l'Ocean Atlantique, à la fin de XV siècle, sous le regne de Charles VIII, par Mártir, évêque d'Arzendjan [Armenia], M.J. Saint Martin, París, 1827. Pilgrimage in 1489. Original published Constantinople 1684. Included in J. García Mercadal, Viaje de extranjeros por España y Portugal, Madrid 1952. French xlated into Spanish by E. G. de R., Vigo, 1898 as Relación de un viaje por Europa con la peregrinación a Santiago de Galicia, verificado a fines del siglo XV por Martir, Obispo de Arzendjan
  • The Pylgrymage of Sir Richard Guylforde to the Holy Land, A.D. 1506, ed by Henry Ellis http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-SQIAAAAIAAJ pp3-6 from Rye to Venice via Mt Cenis, pp78-81 back from Venice to Calais, again via Mt Cenis. Summary of distances p82, table of contents p84
  • Andrew Boorde in 1532 (and again several years later), in Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, 1547 http://www.openlibrary.org/details/bokeofintroducti00booruoft (1814 edn) ch.32 for comments on Compostelle (no detailed route, met ix Eng/Scots pilgrims in Orleans), ch.39 for route London-Venice
  • An appendix in Vol 3 of Georgiana Goddard King's Way of Saint James lists various itineraries, mainly those dealt with here, but also Le Chemin de Paris à Sainct-Jacques en Galice dit Compostelle; et Combien il y a de Lieues de Ville en Ville, 1535 (pp586-89); from a book (bought by Columbus's son) in the Biblioteca Colombiana, ed Henry Harrisse. St Jean de Luz-St Adrian's Tunnel-Burgos-Santiago

• non-detailed itineraries

  • Vita Geraldi Auriliacensis, AD855-909 by Odo, abbot of Cluny; a translation into modern French, Vie De Géraud D'Aurillac, by Père G. de Venzac, appeared in the Revue de la Haute-Auvergne, t. 43, 74ème année, juill.-déc. 1972, p. 220-322. Contains info on frequent trips to Rome; mentions various places Torino-Lyon, so Mt Cenis
  • Diego Gelmirez's journey to Rome 1104 documented in Historia Compostelana, 44 & 47: Auch, Toulouse, Moissac, Cahors, Uzerches, Limoges, Cluny, St Jean de Maurienne, Susa. See España Sagrada, vol 20, 1791, on Gallica. (There was a Spanish translation by M. Suárez in 1950.)
  • Gerald of Wales made several trips to Rome around 1200, documented in his autobiography De rebus a se gestis of c.1204-05. The 1937 edition, The Autobiography of Giraldus Cambrensis / Giraldus Cambrensis, edited and translated by H.E. Butler, with an introductory chapter by C.H. Williams, is available online at the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University
  • Petrarch walked via Florence, where he met Boccaccio, to Rome in Jubilee Year 1350; his letter about it to Boccaccio; Latin/Italian transcription in Familiarium Rerum Libri, XI, I http://www.liceoleonardo.eu/spirito/pdf/LETTERA%20%20A%20GIOVANNI%20BOCCACCIO.PDF Bolsena and Viterbo are the only towns en route mentioned. His trip to Jerusalem is in http://tuttotempolibero.altervista.org//poesia/trecento/francescopetrarca/itinerariumadsepulcrumdomini.html
  • Sadly, none of the many British pilgrims to Santiago that I'm aware of left any record of their journey along the Camino Inglés, but Jean Froissart's description in his Chronicles of John of Gaunt's campaign in Galicia and sojourn in Compostela in 1386 starts on p.340 of the Kervyn de Lettenhove edn (1867-77). This mentions that the troops took 3 days to get from Corunna to Santiago. On Gallica

• post-medieval

  • Itinéraire de Jérome Maurand d’Antibes à Constantinople, 1544, ed. and trans. Leon Dorez (Paris, 1901) http://resikom.adw-goettingen.gwdg.de/berichte/PDF/Dorez_1901_Antibes.pdf
  • Bartholomé de Villalba y Estaña, El pelegrino curioso y Grandezas de España (1577), Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles, Madrid, 1886, 2 vols
  • On SaintJacquesInfo Denise Péricard-Méa documents an itinerary of 1595 in the municipal library in Orleans (Rés. H. 12842) Guide du chemin qu’il faut tenir pour aller de la ville d’Orléans au voyage de Saint-Jacques le Grand, en Compostelle, ville du Royaume de Gallice aux Espagnes. Like Estienne, the outward journey bypasses Tours; the return journey is via Toulouse though the route Toulouse-Orleans only partly corresponds to that given by Estienne
  • Viaggio in Ponente a S. Giacomo di Galizia a Finsterrae, Domenico Laffi; 3 journeys in 1666, 1670, 1673; book published 1673. Rediscovered by James Hall and translated as A Journey to the West: The Diary of a Seventeenth-Century pilgrim from Bologna to Santiago de Compostela
  • Itinerario, o vero viaggio da Venetia a Roma, con tutte le città più habitate, con breve dittione delle sette chiese principali di Roma & altre divotioni notabili, seguendo poi fino a Santo Iacobo in Galitia, Venezia 1550, Bartolomeo Fontana: MS Codex 451 in Penn Libraries. The pilgrimage dates from 1538-9. Two modern edns: L’itinerario di Bartolomeo Fontana, 1541-1600, Antonietta Fucelli, 1987; Fontana, Bartolomeo. Itinerari. Due viaggiatori veneziani attraverso l’europa del cinquecento, edited by Robert C. Melzi, 1995. Details of route in France on saint-jacques.info. The only Santiago pilgrim I've come across who travelled via Le Puy
  • Gian Lorenzo Buonafede Vanti, Viaggio occidentale a S. Giacomo di Galicia, Nostra Signora dellabarca e Finisterræ, 1717-8
  • Viaggio da Napoli a San Giacomo, Nicola Albani, 1743
  • Pèlerinage d'un Paysan Picard (Guillaume Manier, 1726), ed baron de Bonnault d'Houët 1890, pp175-83 (new edn 2002). On Gallica

• relevant itineraries for which I do not have details

  • John Sheppey, prior of Rochester and treasurer to Edward III, left a compotus for his journey to Santiago in 1346, via Dover, Wissant, Avignon, Montpellier, Agen, Bayonne, St Adrian's tunnel; back by ship from Bordeaux: Public Record Office, E 101/312/16
  • William Brewyn, followed a similar line to Wey's first journey in 1469, described in A XVth Century Guide-book to the Principal Churches of Rome, ed. C.I. Woodruff, London 1933
  • Tanner 2 (early 16th century) in the Bodley contains various Itineraria (ff139-140), including The waie fro Ynglonde to Rome by Frawnce and The waye fro Ynglonde to Rome by Flanders and Duchelonde; the second of these is apparently identical to Wey's 1st journey
  • MS Harley 2321 in the British Library contains an itinerary from England to Rome via the St Gotthard, seemingly 15th century. Debra Birch, in a footnote in her Pilgrimage to Rome in the Middle Ages, gives the route as: Dover, Calais, Gravelines, Dunkirk, Bruges, Ghent, Dendermonde, Mechelen, Diest, Bilsen, Maastricht, Aachen, Cologne, Bonn, Rheinbach, Andernach, Koblenz, Bingen, Worms, Speyer, Lauterberg, Hagenau, Strasbourg, Basel, Luzern, St Gotthard, Bellinzona, Lugano, Como, Milano. This is similar to Adam of Usk's outward itinerary