Rorgo Fretellus

Start of the Descriptio in the manuscript Paris, BnF, MS lat. 5129, copied in 1151–1157[1]

Rorgo Fretellus, also spelled Fetellus[2] (fl. 1119–1154),[3] was a Frankish priest in the Kingdom of Jerusalem who wrote a widely circulated description in Latin of the Christian holy places in the Holy Land, the Descriptio de locis sanctis.

  1. ^ John R. Bartlett, Mapping Jordan Through Two Millennia (Routledge, 2017 [2008]), p. 7.
  2. ^ James Rose Macpherson, ed. (1896), Fetellus (circa 1130 A.D.) (London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society), pp. v–x.
  3. ^ Jonathan Riley-Smith (1981), "Review of Rorgo Fretellus de Nazareth et sa description de la Terre Sainte: histoire et édition du texte by P. C. Boeren (North-Holland Publishing, 1980)", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 113(2), pp. 200–201. doi:10.1017/s0035869x00157958