Burchard's Descriptio Terrae Sanctae. Edition and Historical Contexts of Reception

从1280年起，多米尼加修士伯查德（Burchard of Mount Sion）所写的《圣地描述》（Descriptio terrae sanctae）对后来对圣地的描述产生了更大的影响。它被认为是描述圣地的地理、地形和民族志的关键文本，它包含了旧约和新约的表现，以及对生存受到威胁的十字军国家的当代观点。幸存的80多份手稿和20多份印刷品（不包括多种白话翻译）证明了该作品的受欢迎程度，由于其许多改编，缩写和变体，它享有如此广泛的传播。因此，令人惊讶的是，文本的起源，其复杂的传播历史，特别是其原型的问题尚未得到充分解决。该项目的目的是制作一个与MGH相关的最接近描述原型的版本的关键版本，并对其传播进行深入分析，并对社会文化背景进行检查，以便在不同的接收阶段制作和使用选定的证人。为此目的，将首先以开放获取的数字版本制作文本，并附有解释性注释和评论（子项目a）。这将使九个最相关的证人（长修订版a和b族的七份手稿和最早的短修订版的两份副本）能够以尽可能详细和灵活的方式复制。为了便于使用，计划后续的印刷版。其次，（子项目B）将通过一系列开创性的案例研究，对接收情况进行深入分析，以建立和背景化手稿传统以及《描述》的发展过程。第三，（子项目C）为短版本建立一个体系，并对短版本和长版本的完整手稿传统（以TEI编码）以及摘录和插图进行描述，将伴随版本并提供对其依赖关系的更精确理解。文本的版本，对其接收的研究和相关的手稿目录将为研究伯查德和圣地的一般表现奠定新的基础。这本13世纪晚期关于黎凡特的启发性描述，通过揭示旅行文学传播和改编背后的复杂过程，同样会激发我们对概念模式的新认识。它同样揭示了中世纪研究的一系列核心主题，如流动性，物质性和媒介，对空间和替代的看法，以及地中海东部基督教与穆斯林的互动。

No travel report has had a greater influence on subsequent representations of the Holy Land than the Descriptio terrae sanctae, written by the Dominican friar, Burchard of Mount Sion from 1280 onwards. It is regarded as a key text for its description of the geography, topography and ethnography of the Holy Land, which encompasses both Old and New Testament representations as well as contemporary views of the existentially threatened crusader states. The more than 80 surviving manuscripts and 20 printings not counting multiple vernacular translations, testify to the works popularity, which enjoyed such a wide dissemination thanks to its many adaptations, abbreviations and variants. It is surprising therefore that the origin of the text, its complex history of transmission and especially the question of its archetype have not yet been adequately addressed.The aim of this project is to produce a critical edition of the version closest to the archetype of the Descriptio in association with the MGH, as well as an in depth analysis of its transmission and an examination of the sociocultural context for the production and use of select witnesses at various stages of reception. To this end, the urtext will first be produced in Open Access as a digital edition with explanatory notes and commentary (sub-project A). This will allow the nine most relevant witnesses (seven manuscripts from the a and b family of the long recension and the two copies of the earliest short recension) to be reproduced with the greatest possible detail and flexibility. A subsequent printed edition is planned for ease of use. Second, (sub-project B) an in depth analysis of the reception will establish and contextualise the manuscript tradition as well as the process of the Descriptio’s development through a set of groundbreaking case studies. Third, (sub-project C) the establishment of a stemma for the short recension and a description of the complete manuscript tradition (in TEI encoding) for both the short and long recension along with excerpts and illustrations, will accompany the edition and provide a more precise understanding of their dependencies.The edition of the urtext, the study of its reception and the associated manuscript catalogue will establish a new foundation for research on Burchard and representations of the Holy Land in general. This illuminating, late thirteenth century description of the Levant will likewise stimulate anew our approach to patterns of conception by revealing complex processes that underlie the transmission and adaptation of travel literature. It likewise sheds light on a range of topics that are central to medieval research, such as mobility, materiality and medium, perceptions of space and alternity, as well as Christian-Muslim interactions in the eastern Mediterranean.