INTRODUCTION

Amongst the subjects which have attracted the attention
of historical students during the last half century, not the
least interesting is the story of the pilgrimages directed
unceasingly to Palestine from the early centuries of the
christian era—a story told in many cases by the pilgrims
themselves who found their way by different routes to the
common goal from all parts of Christendom.

An immense impulse was given to the study of the
pilgrim voyages by the publication, in 1868, of the
BibliograpJiia Geographica Palaestinae, compiled by the
late Professor Titus Tobler. This useful work was after¬
wards so enlarged and supplemented by his disciple.
Professor Reinhold Rohricht, that the new edition, pub¬
lished in 1890, gives an almost exhaustive list of the
pilgrimages—from the earliest down to modern times—
undertaken by pilgrims who have left some account of
their voyages; together with full details as to where those
relations are to be found—and whether in manuscript or
in print—or both.

Meanwhile Professor Rohricht, in collaboration with
Dr. H. Meissner, was preparing the first edition of the
Deutsche Pilgerreisen nach dem Heiligen Lande, which
saw the light in 1880; a second, -and enlarged edition, was
published by Professor Rohricht alone in 1900. The
bibliography of the German pilgrim voyages there com¬
pleted, closes with a notice of the Pilgrimage of Heinrich
Wilhelm Ludolph, who went to the Holy Land via
Constantinople, in 1699, and returned by way of Leghorn.
Rohricht notes that in 1494 Ludwig Ereiherr von Greiffen-

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