Publisher's Synopsis
When the Kufstein mine owner Martin Baumgartner set out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1507, he won over the local schoolmaster Georgius as his travel companion. The pilgrims traveled to Palestine, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula and Syria. After his return, Georgius, now a Carthusian in Gaming, turned the travel diary into an extensive Latin travelogue. In 1594 the evangelical pastor Christoph Donauer edited the text in the Protestant sense. Almost all religious aspects of the trip fell victim to his deletions. The text-critical edition offered here takes both text versions into account, thus offering the possibility of inter-denominational comparison, which is unique within pilgrimage literature. A translation opens up the original text, written in stylistically appealing humanist Latin, to a wider audience.
