The Unpublished Ms. BNM 17,806 and the Itineraries of the Holy Scripture: Edition and Study of an Ignored Text

Abstract

The manuscript number 17.806 of the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, called Descripción y destrucion de la ciudad y templo de Jerusalem. Los viajes y caminos que hizieron los Santos Patriarcas, Profetas, Reyes, Cristo Señor Nuestro, su Madre Santissima y los Apostoles mencionados en la Sagrada Escritura; con una breue declaracion de los pesos, medidas y monedas antiguas hebreas, griegas y romanas reduzidas a las nuestras, is a curious travel book that remains unpublished and little is known of it. On this occasion we present the general characteristics of this text, the specifications of the edition that we are preparing and its possible underlying literary models.