Title:

Sanctarum peregrinationum in montem Syon ad venerandum Christi sepulcrum in Ierusalem, atque in montem Synai ad divam virginem et ma[r]tirem Katherinam opusculum

Short title

Opusculum sanctarum peregrinationum

Title variations

Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam

Title in English

Book on the holy pilgrimages to Mount Zion to venerate the sepulchre of Christ in Jerusalem, and to Mount Sinai to the holy virgin and martyr Catherine

Section

Part 2 (De moribus, ritibus et erroribus eorum qui sanctam inhabitant terram)

Language

Latin

Creation date

1486

Genre

Travel account

Content

Other

Content table

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

Source

Use (macro-category)

Polemical

Use (micro-category)

Polemics against Islam

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Bernhard von Breydenbach's Opusculum (first published in Latin in 1486) is a pilgrimage account relating to a travel made in 1483 to the Holy Land and Sinai, and containing a large section devoted to the life of Muhammad and the Qur’an based on late-medieval sources. It enjoyed an exceptional diffusion all over Europe between the late 15th-16th century, being translated into several vernacular languages (German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Czech, Polish) and establishing itself as a reference work on the geography of the Holy Land, its inhabitants and their religions.

Entry author

Maurizio Busca