_Pilgrimages to the Holy Land_ (Vol. v., pp. 289. 290.).--Seeing a
notice in "N. & Q." of Breydenbach's _Opus Transmarinum_, and a
suggestion of Dr. Kitto that this work was written by Felix Faber, I am
induced to call attention to another work written by the latter, which
is still extant in his _own MS._, in the library at Ulm, bearing the
following title: _Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terræ Sanctæ,
Arabiæ et Ægypti Peregrinationem_, and which was printed for the first
time for the Literarische Verein at Stuttgart, a society established
there about ten years since, with objects somewhat similar to our Camden
Society. This was one of its earliest publications, and as the number of
copies printed was very small, the volumes are now rarely to be met
with. The author informs his brethren of the monastery of Ulm, for whose
especial benefit he professes to have written his book, that he composed
it soon after his return from his second journey, the interval between
the first and _second_ journey having been occupied in reading and
making notes from all the existing books on the same subject which he
could meet with (it is to be regretted that he has not given us a list
of these), "de quibus omnibus," he adds, "tuli quidquid deserviebat
proposito meo, ex qua collectura grande volumen comportavi." With this
collection of notes he appears to have set forth on his second
expedition, "_quia post hæc omnia in multis dubius remansi et incertus,
quia multa legeram et pauca videram_." Traversing Jerusalem, Arabia, and
Ægypt, "_conferens ea, quæ prius legeram et collegeram ad ipsa loca, et
concordantias sanctarum scripturarum cum locis, et loca cum scripturis
quantum potui, investigavi et signavi. Inter hæc nonnunquam de locis
sanctis etiam, in quibus non fui, exactam diligentiam feci, ut earum
dispositionem conscriberem, sed non nisi illo addito: ibi non fui, sed
auditu aut lectione didici._"
[The MS. is dated 1484.]