Primary source · Latin
The Pilgrimage of Egeria (Itinerarium)
Egeria · c. AD 381–384
What this text is
The earliest substantial Christian travel diary: the liturgy of Jerusalem observed week by week, and en route the shrines of the East — including 'the far-famed martyrium of holy Euphemia' at Chalcedon.
Profile of Egeria the pilgrim →
Public-domain translations
Working translation (from the Latin)
Journeying through Bithynia we came to Chalcedon, and there I stayed because of the far-famed martyr-memorial of holy Euphemia, known to me of old, which is in that place. (Itin. 23.7)
Manuscript witnesses
Codex Aretinus 405 (Arezzo)
11th c.The single surviving manuscript, copied at Monte Cassino and rediscovered by Gamurrini in 1884 — acephalous, lacking beginning and end.
Provenance
A western nun's travel diary of the Holy Land, Sinai, and Asia Minor
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Égérie: Journal de voyage (SC 296)Pierre Maraval, 1982The critical edition with French translation.
- Egeria's TravelsJohn Wilkinson, 3rd ed. 1999The standard English translation with topographical commentary.