<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f5cc11e4-2166-4777-bbef-76086fe6cd1f/D36682E8-6929-4707-9B16-8F3C72DF63AF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/10/konstanz-to-jerusalem.html" href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/10/konstanz-to-jerusalem.html" style="font-size: 11px;">bibliodyssey.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/10/konstanz-to-jerusalem.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/94844BA2-2E01-46B4-89DC-AF5B999C0563" alt="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/10/konstanz-to-jerusalem.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/A2F424BC-4AC1-4656-8CF7-67188710FE48" alt="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 b" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/10/konstanz-to-jerusalem.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/9B68DB6E-17C9-475C-BAC7-650233DCF9F2" alt="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 e" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/10/konstanz-to-jerusalem.html"><DIV><I>'Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem'</I> [1487] (Description of a journey from Konstanz<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstanz">*</A> to Jerusalem] records in diary form the pilgrimage undertaken by the German knight (as well as town mayor and architect), Konrad von Grünenberg<A title="translation of short wikipedia article" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Gr%C3%BCnenberg&sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8">*</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/10/konstanz-to-jerusalem.html"><A title="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 e" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/3992484289/sizes/l/"></A> <BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><A title="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 h" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/3992494805/sizes/l/"><IMG width="500" height="366" alt="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 h" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3536/3992494805_388c393a9a.jpg" /></A> <BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><A title="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 d" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/3992482579/sizes/l/"><IMG width="500" height="376" alt="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 d" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2510/3992482579_cc2929deda.jpg" /></A> <BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><A title="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 g" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/3993251146/sizes/l/"><IMG width="500" height="372" alt="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 g" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2436/3993251146_28fcb66760.jpg" /></A> <BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><A title="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 k" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/3995087224/sizes/l/"><IMG width="500" height="373" alt="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 k" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3421/3995087224_07eb569a24.jpg" /></A><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><A title="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 f" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/3993249550/sizes/l/"><IMG width="500" height="379" alt="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 f" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2484/3993249550_2b2577d09e.jpg" /></A> <BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><A title="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 a" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/3992479001/sizes/l/"><IMG width="500" height="367" alt="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 a" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3466/3992479001_05fe8fd2a0.jpg" /></A> <BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><A title="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 i" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/3993254602/sizes/l/"><IMG width="500" height="364" alt="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 i" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3429/3993254602_769e4b6ac5.jpg" /></A> <BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><A title="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 c" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/3993238960/sizes/l/"><IMG width="346" height="500" alt="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 c" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2510/3993238960_17a736e41b.jpg" /></A> <BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><A title="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 j" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/3992497503/sizes/l/"><IMG width="350" height="500" alt="Konrad von Grünenberg - Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem 1487 j" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2566/3992497503_5c7af05e6f.jpg" /></A><BR /><BR /></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/10/konstanz-to-jerusalem.html"><P>I'm 100% sure the last full city illustration above is Jerusalem and I would bet someone's good money that the first city above is Rhodes (the stylised windmills give it away: compare to Hartmann Schedel's <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rhodos1493.png">illustration</A> of Rhodes from a few years later from the famous <SPAN>'Liber Chronicarum'</SPAN> <SMALL><SMALL>{a book that will one day be the subject of its own post on <A href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/">BibliOdyssey</A>}</SMALL></SMALL>). </P><DIV><BR /></DIV><DIV><DIV>In other words, the pilgrimage diary of von Grünenberg ("green mountain") is a very significant manuscript both in terms of historical urban geography and also because it is an early form of travel literature, a genre that would rise to prominence some two centuries later. <SMALL>[<A href="http://archiv.twoday.net/">via</A>]</SMALL></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/10/konstanz-to-jerusalem.html"><A href="http://www.blb-karlsruhe.de/virt_bib/stpeter_pap32/"><I>'Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem'</I> is hosted by the Badische Landesbibliothek</A> </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D36682E8-6929-4707-9B16-8F3C72DF63AF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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