E07942: The Breviarius, a brief guide to the holy places of Jerusalem, which survives in two distinct versions,mentions a number of buildings and relics associated with saints and Old Testament figures. Written in Latin, presumably in Jerusalem, perhaps (in its two surviving states) around AD 500.

Breviarius de Hierosolyma

Extracts

1. At Golgotha (line 46):

Version A: Vbi est ille discus ubi caput sancti Iohannis portatum fuit. Vbi est illud cornu, quo Dauid unctus est et Salomon. Et ille anulus ibidem, unde Salomon sigillauit demones et est de electro.

Version B: Ibi est ille missurius ubi portatus fuit caput Iohannis Baptiste ante Herodem regem.
Et ibi est cornus ille unde unctus est David.

Version A: 'Where the dish on which the head of saint John was carried is. Where the horn with which David was anointed is, and Solomon. And the ring with which Solomon sealed the demons, and it is of electrum.'

Version B: 'The dish on which the head of John the Baptist was carried before King Herod is there. And the horn with which David was anointed is there.'



2. By the Holy Sepulchre (line 70):

Version A (only): Ante ipso sepulchro est altare, ubi Zacharias sanctus occisus est, ubi arescit sanguis eius.

Version A (only): 'In front of the Sepulchre is an altar, where the holy Zechariah was killed, where his blood dried.'



3. At the church of Holy Sion (line 93):

Version A: Inde uenis ad sacrarium, ubi est ille lapis unde lapidatus est sanctus Stephanus.

Version B: Et inde uenis ad sacrario et ibi est lapis ille unde lapidatus est sanctus Stephanus.


Version A: 'From there you come to the holy treasury, where there is a rock with which saint Stephen was stoned.'

Version B: 'And from there you come to the holy treasury, and a rock with which saint Stephen was stoned is there.'



4. The church of Peter (house of Caiaphas) (line 105):

Version A (only): Inde uadis ad domum Caiphan, ubi negauit sanctus Petrus, ubi est basilica grandis sancti Petri.

Version A (only): 'Then you go to the house of Caiaphas, where saint Peter denied [Christ], where there is a large basilica of saint Peter.'



5. The church of the Dormition:

Version B (only): Et ibi est basilica sanctae Mariae et ibi est sepulchrum eius.

Version B (only): 'And the basilica of saint Mary is there her grave is there.'


Text: Weber 1965. Translation: Bryan Ward-Perkins.