The Casale Pilgrim. A Sixteenth-Century Illustrated Guide to the Holy Places. Reproduced in Facsimile, With Introduction, Translation and Notes by Cecil Roth

"In the last decade of the sixteenth century, a pilgrim returned from Palestine to his native city of Casale Monferrato, in North Italy. He had been privileged to visit the Holy Land and to see with his own eyes all of its wonders…Basing himself on the text of the anonymous Ascription of the Patriarchs (Yichus Avoth) [of 1537], though not following it by any means slavishly, he produced the slender illuminated volume which is here reproduced - a spiritual Baedeker to the Holy Land, fully illustrated in colour.'" - From Introduction, pp. 17-18