'Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem' [1487] (Description of a journey from Konstanz* to Jerusalem] records in diary form the pilgrimage undertaken by the German knight (as well as town mayor and architect), Konrad von Grünenberg*.
'Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem' is hosted by the Badische Landesbibliothek (thumbnail links a third of the way down the page) Bibliographic references are in the box at the end.
I'm 100% sure the last full city illustration above is Jerusalem and I would bet someone's good money that the first city above is Rhodes (the stylised windmills give it away: compare to Hartmann Schedel's illustration of Rhodes from a few years later from the famous 'Liber Chronicarum' {a book that will one day be the subject of its own post on BibliOdyssey}).
In other words, the pilgrimage diary of von Grünenberg ("green mountain") is a very significant manuscript both in terms of historical urban geography and also because it is an early form of travel literature, a genre that would rise to prominence some two centuries later. [via]
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