The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Jerusalem, and of the

om Hebron. And ye shall understand, that Jerusalem of old time, unto the time of Melchisadech, was clept Jebus; and after it was clept Salem, unto the time of King David, t

t; and on the west side to the Great Sea; on the north side, towards the kingdom of Syria and to the sea of Cyprus. In Jerusalem was wont to be a patriarch; and archbishops and bishops about in the country. About Jerusalem be these cities: Hebron, at seven mile; Jericho, at six mile; Beersheba, at eight mile; Ascalon, at seventeen mile; Jaffa, at sixteen

ands of all nations; that is to say, of Jews, of Canaanites, Assyrians, Persians, Medes, Macedonians, of Greeks, Romans, of Christian men, of Saracens, Barbarians, Turks, Tartars, and of many other divers nations; for Go

Lord was buried, that is without the city on the north side; but it is now enclosed in with the town wall. And there is a full fair

n height. And it is not long sith the sepulchre was all open, that men might kiss it and touch it; but for pilgrims that came thither pained them to break the stone in pieces or in powder, therefore the soldan hath do make a wall about the sepulchre that no man may touch it: but in the left side of the wall of the tabernacle is, well the height of a man, a great stone to the quantity of a man's

ut on the cross; and it is a rock of white colour and a little medled with red. And the cross was set in a mortise in th

token that the sins of Adam should be bought in that same place. And upon that rock made Abraham sacrifice to our Lord. A

ur Lord was crucified,

πρ? α??νων ε?ργ?σατο σω

to say,

ecula operatus est sal

is to

the worlds, hath wrought h

the cross was set, is written

σι? τ?? π?στεω? ?λη

to say,

undamentum totius

is to

the ground of all th

seem that the prophecies were not true. But they be both true; for in old time men made a year of ten months, of the which March was the first and December was the last. But Gaius, that was Emperor of Rome, put these two months thereto, January and February, and ordained the year of t

had hid it. And that was the very cross assayed; for they found three crosses, one of our Lord, and two of the two thieves; and Saint Helen proved them by a dead body that arose from death to life, when that it was laid on it, that our Lord died on. And thereby in the wall is the place where the four nails of our Lord were hid: for he had two in his hands and two in his feet. And, of one of these, the Emperor of Constantinop

aketh, and they be now in Paynims' and Saracens' hands: but when God Almighty will, right as the lands

the body of our Lord when he had taken him down off the cross; and there he wash

(for he was in prison in many places); and there is a part of the chain that he was bounden with; and

canons of the order of Saint Augustine, and ha

on the cross. And on these grees went our Lord when he bare the cross on his shoulder. And under these grees is a chapel, and in that chapel sing priests, Indians, that is to say, priests of Ind, not after our law, but after theirs; and alway they make their sacrament of the altar, saying, Pater Noste

e of Jehosaphat that toucheth to the walls as though it were a large ditch. And above that vale of Jehosaphat, out of the city, is the church of Saint Stephen where he was stoned to death. And there beside, is the Golden Gate, that may not

e 124 pillars of stone. And in the walls of the house, without the number above-said, there be fifty-four pillars that bear up the house. And from that hospital to go toward the east is a full fair church, that is c