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De locis sanctis (Concerning sacred places) was composed by the Irish monk Adomnán, a copy being presented to King Aldfrith of Northumbria in 698. It was based on an account by the Frankish monk Arculf of his travels to the Holy Land, from which Adomnán, with aid from some further sources, was able to produce a descriptive work in three books, dealing with Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and other places in The Holy Land, and briefly with Alexandria and Constantinople. It aimed to give a faithful account of what Arculf actually saw during his journey. Many of the manuscripts contain the second earliest known map of Jerusalem (it was the earliest known map until the discovery of the Madaba Map.)

The work contains the four earliest known drawings of Christian churches in the Holy Land; three are in Jerusalem (the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Church of Zion, and the Chapel of the Ascension) and one in Nablus (the Church of Jacob's Well).^[1]

^ Kathryn Blair Moore (2018), Adomnán’s On the Holy Places: Pilgrimage Manuscripts and Architectural Translation from Jerusalem to Europe, Art in Translation, 10:1, 11-29, DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2018.1424310 "The selected build-ings are presented in both the ground-plans and corresponding textual descriptions as inscribing the most important traces of Christ’s corporeal presence in and near Jerusalem. These are his footprints on the Mount of Olives enclosed by the Church of the Ascension (Figure 1), the imprints of his face and hands on the Column of the Flagellation inside the Church on Mount Sion (Figure 2), and his empty tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (Figure 3). The fourth ground-plan illustrates the Church at Jacob’s Well in Nablus (Figure 4), assimilated to the form of the Cross.... The illustrations in Adomnán’s book are the first surviving drawings of the Christian pilgrimage churches in the Holy Land."

[1] Kathryn Blair Moore (2018), Adomnán’s On the Holy Places: Pilgrimage Manuscripts and Architectural Translation from Jerusalem to Europe, Art in Translation, 10:1, 11-29, DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2018.1424310 "The selected build-ings are presented in both the ground-plans and corresponding textual descriptions as inscribing the most important traces of Christ’s corporeal presence in and near Jerusalem. These are his footprints on the Mount of Olives enclosed by the Church of the Ascension (Figure 1), the imprints of his face and hands on the Column of the Flagellation inside the Church on Mount Sion (Figure 2), and his empty tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (Figure 3). The fourth ground-plan illustrates the Church at Jacob’s Well in Nablus (Figure 4), assimilated to the form of the Cross.... The illustrations in Adomnán’s book are the first surviving drawings of the Christian pilgrimage churches in the Holy Land."

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