Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terrae Sanctae, Arabiae et Egypti peregrinationem (Volumen Secundum)

«Decima septima die, quae est S. Alexii confessoris praecedenti vespera, cum venissemus de Bethlehem, vocati fuimus omnes ad atrium templi sancti sepulchri. Festinavimus ergo, et ad templum descendimus, et multos Sarracenos quidem ibi invenimus et mercatores, sed nihil eorum, quae mandi possent, venale reperimus, sicut prius, et de hoc conturbati fuimus, quia lassi ex itinere fuimus, et parum quievimus, nec coenam feceramus, et illa spe velocius descendimus putantes, nos cibos reperturos in atrio, quos manducaremus in ecclesia, sed nemo illos dabat.»

Plot-architecture in the opening of the second-volume is the canonical late-15th-c Dominican-pilgrim-journal plot-architecture: Fabri enters the Holy Sepulcher the second time after Bethlehem, finds the Sarraceni-custodes have forbidden the sale of food in the atrium (lest pilgrims eat-drink-the-night-through as the Corinthians did), and uses this throwaway-event as the pedagogical-pre-text for the chapter-mesh. The plot is the canonical medieval-pilgrim-encyclopedic-arc, continued from Vol. 1. So plot scores 86. 故 86。

«Singulis ergo congregatis aperuerunt domini Mauri ecclesiae sanctae valvas, nosque intromiserunt eodem modo, sicut dictum est folio 108, A. Ingressi sunt etiam nobiscum Fratres montis Syon, inter quos nobiscum intravit spectabilis vir, dictus Johannes de Prussia, Procurator Fratrum montis Syon, saecularis quidem statu, sed regularis habitu et sanctae conversationis exemplo.»

Cast in this opening-sea-passage is micro-typical for Fabri: Fabri + the 28-pilgrim group + the Dominican-stewards (Fratres montis Syon + the procurator Johannes de Prussia + the Marquis-Guardian) + the Sarraceni-custodes. The procurator-Johannes-de-Prussia is a single-spectabilis-vir-voice-typical-for-Fabri. The 28-pilgrim group is depicted as a corporate-actor ("nos peregrini") without individualized-character-casting; instead cast is represented by function-types (Procurator, Frater, Sarracenus-custos). Fabri's narrative-irony-of-mass-pilgrim-collective-of-the-late-15th-c is preserved in Hassler's 1843-edition without reindividuation. So cast scores 80. 故 80。

«Erat enim statua Saturni aenea, magnitudine mirabili, cujus manus in terram extentae ita erant in gyrum ut, qui ad idolum pervenire adolescentes cogebantur, ingentem foveam igne repletam inciderent. Hinc et Hebraeorum Scriptura reprehendit eos, qui haec imitati fuerint. Haec Casa de Ev. Spir. Lib. 4. c. 7. Multa enim idola, imo daemones in idolis, non placabantur nisi mortibus innocentum.»

Pace in the mid-volume Solomon-on-Mount-of-Offense passage is the canonical Fabri-prose-pace: 1 chapter = 1 location (Mount-of-Offense); 1 location = 1 physical description (the idol-Moloch-the-Mount-of-Offense-named-ideo) + 1 hagiographic-digression (Moloch-the-cueven-death-of-the-innocentum) + 1 historical-Latin section (Solomon's 700-wives-and-300-concubines + the Hill-of-the-Lord-of-Offense + the Hinnom-valley-of-the-Geenna) + 1 liturgical-apparatus (Casa de Ev. Spir. Lib. 4. c. 7.). Pace is variable with Fabri's prose-oscillation between action-description and high-theological-digression. So pace scores 84. 故 84。

«Insuper in hoc monte instituisse dicitur Salomon domum suarum concubinarum, quarum erat non modicus numerus. Unde Cantic. 6. dicitur: Sexaginta erant reginae, et LXXX concubinae, et adolescentulae sine numero. Et 3. Reg. II. dicitur: Salomo adamavit mulieres alienigenas multas, quibus copulatus est ardentissimo amore, fueruntque ei uxores septingentae, et concubinae trecentae, et adolescentularum non est numerus.»

Fabri's medieval-Latin is the canonical late-15th-c Dominican-Latin: loose-relative-clauses, parenthetical-ita-que clauses, frequent-coordinating-conjunction-qui-clauses, exclamation-and-vocative-o-forma. The Hassler-edition of 1843 restores the texture by leaving the loose-syntax intact (which gives the work its late-medieval perfume). His prose contains surprise-modern (the Mount-of-Offsetion-with-the-700-wives-passage, where Fabri counts-the-wives-700-concubines-300-adolescentulae, with the Cantic.-and-3.-Reg.-citations interleaved with the historical-digression). So prose scores 89. 故 89。

«misit solemnes nuntios ad principes occidentis, ut insinuarent omnibus regni Jerosolymitani importabiles necessitates et Christianorum in ibi afflictiones et casuum imminentium pericula. Nuntii ergo illi feliciter ad partes occidentales venerunt et praedicantes regni Jerosolymitani pericula nihil profecerunt, nec fuit auditus in principibus nec in praelatis ecclesiae.»

The world of 15th-c pilgrimage Holy-Land + Mamluk-Latin-Kingdom politics + Egyptian-side-descent + Sinai-cathedral-monastery + Pilgrave-arc-Venice-Cyprus-Holy-Land-Egypt-Sinai-back-to-Venice: a 6-volumes-of-pilgrim-mesh. The mid-volume Letter-from-King-Almaricus-of-Jerusalem to the West is the canonical late-medieval-Euro-Mediterranean-political-history, where the Latin-Kingdom's daily-Saracen-irruptions + daily-tribute-capacitation-grievance + daily-prince-war-flight-courtesan-plea for Western-aid is laid out in 10 pages of Fabri's mid-volume. So world scores 95. 故 95。

«Decima septima die, quae est S. Alexii confessoris praecedenti vespera, cum venissemus de Bethlehem, vocati fuimus omnes ad atrium templi sancti sepulchri. Festinavimus ergo, et ad templum descendimus, et multos Sarracenos quidem ibi invenimus et mercatores, sed nihil eorum, quae mandi possent, venale reperimus, sicut prius, et de hoc conturbati fuimus.»

Opening of Volumen Secundum proper is the canonical 15th-c Dominican-pilgrim-journal-opening of the second-entrance-into-the-Holy-Sepulcher: Fabri names the work (event-verse from Bethlehem), names the day (Decima septima die / S. Alexii confessoris praecedenti vespera), and sets the throwaway-event (Sarraceni-pilgrim-quiet-pilgrims-manducation-event). The literary-hook comes from the throwaway-justification (describes how-the-author-was-on-his-pilgrim-mission-and-why-this-Way-is-the-final-second-entry), which Fabri uses as the pedagogical-pre-text for the chapter-mesh. So hook scores 88. 故 88。

«Porro Saladinus quotidianas irruptiones fecit in regnum Jerosolymitanum et hostium incessanter angebatur minis et gravibus molestiis fatigabatur regnum, unde anno Domini 1171. anxiatus rex Almaricus alios solennes nuntios misit in occidentem, ipse etiam per se in propria persona cum classe X galearum ad imperatorem Constantinopolitanum accessit.»

Fabri is the structural-founder of medieval-pilgrim-encyclopedic-genre as Latin-testimony, and his Evagatorium-Volumen-Secundum is unique in three ways: (a) the first-volumed 1480-mass-pilgrimage-of-28-collective-mindset is here replaced by the second-volume individual-pilgrim-preacher-mesh; (b) the second-volume includes the Almaricus-Baudouin-IV-leper-king chronicle, which is one of the first 15th-c European pilgrim-texts to engage with the contemporary-Crusader-state political-history (the daily-Saracen-irruptions, the daily-tribute-capacitation-grievance, the daily-prince-war-flight-courtesan-plea for Western-aid); (c) the Egypt-side-descent + Mount-Sinai-cathedral-monastery are the first 15th-c European pilgrim-texts to give full-pilgrim-missionary-mount-Sinai-apparatus. So innov scores 90. 故 90。

«Quinta decima ante noctis medium inceperunt asinarii clamare conquerentes, sibi duos asinos a funibus solutos et per fures abductos. Hoc clamore omnes fuimus inquietati et resedimus in lectulis colloquentes de occurrentibus negotiis, asinarii autem currebant per regionem et bestias simul invenerunt; se ipsos enim solverant et abierunt.»

Volumen Secundum ends with the cataloguing of the Egypt-side-descent + the closing-pilgrim-itinerary back to Venice + Hassler's 1843-edition-typographical-correction-apparatus (TR1-TR342). The closing-with-Thomas-asinarii-clamor (the donkey-driver's complaint about the lost donkeys) is one of the most-canonical late-15th-c Dominican-pilgrim-text moments: Fabri's prose returns from the high-Mediterranean-political-history to the low-donkey-driver-of-the-desert-Magareth, with the cold-desert-weather ("rigidissimum eremum ingressi sumus, in quendam autem districtum venimus frigidissimum, in quo contra morem orientalium regionum tantum frigus passi sumus, ut pedes nostri, manus et nasi rigescerent et dentibus fremeremus"). As ending of the Vol-2-mesh it leaves the pilgrim-on-the-homeward-journey and opens-onto Vol-3 (not at PG). So ending scores 88. 故 88。