Felix Fabri

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Felix Fabri (also spelt Faber; 1441 – 1502) was a Swiss Dominican theologian. He left vivid and detailed descriptions of his pilgrimages to Palestine and also in 1489 authored a book on the history of Swabia, entitled Historia Suevorum.

He made his early studies under the Dominicans at Basel and Ulm, where he spent most of his life.

"Faber" is the Latin nominative singular form of his surname. He is often referred to as "Fabri", the Latin genitive singular, i.e. the possessive form, because his name appears this way in the title of his book, "Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terræ Sanctæ, Arabiæ et Egypti peregrinationem".

One of Fabri's companions during his 1483–84 pilgrimage to the Holy Land was Hungarian poet and cleric János Lászai ({{langx|la|Johannes de Lazo}}).[http://real-j.mtak.hu/1006/1/MagyarEgyhaztortenetiVazlatok_2000.pdf Lázár, Imre: Egy erdélyi zarándok Egyiptomban. Lászai János 1483-as útja a Szent Család nyomában]. In: ''Magyar Egyháztörténeti Vázlatok, 2000. Vol. 1–4., 105–125. p.

In Jerusalem, he met Bernhard von Breidenbach.Fabri, 1893, p. [https://archive.org/details/libraryofpalesti09paleuoft/page/104/mode/1up 104]

A fictional account of Fabri's journey to and time in the Holy Land is found in the book A Stolen Tongue, by Sheri Holman.

Bibliography

Fabri, Felix (1848): [https://books.google.com/books?id=ztUWAAAAQAAJ Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terrae sanctae, Arabiae et Aegypti peregrinationem: 3 vol.] in Latin. Vol 1. The full text, google-books,
Fabri, Felix (1849): [https://books.google.com/books?id=8-EGAAAAQAAJ Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terræ Sanctæ, Arabiæ et Egypti peregrinationem] in Latin. Vol 3. The full text, google-books,
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{{cite book|last=Fabri|first=Felix|authorlink=Felix Fabri|year=1896|url=https://archive.org/details/libraryofpalesti08paleuoft |title= Felix Fabri (circa 1480–1483 A.D.) vol I, part II| publisher= Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society}}
{{cite book|last=Fabri|first=Felix|authorlink=Felix Fabri|year=1893|url=https://archive.org/details/libraryofpalesti09paleuoft |title= Felix Fabri (circa 1480–1483 A.D.) vol II, part I| publisher= Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society}}
{{cite book|last=Fabri|first=Felix|authorlink=Felix Fabri|year=1893|url=https://archive.org/details/libraryofpalesti02paleuoft |title= Felix Fabri (circa 1480–1483 A.D.) vol II, part II| publisher= Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society}} with p. [https://archive.org/stream/libraryofpalesti02paleuoft#page/677/mode/1up 677: Index]

References

Sources

[https://web.archive.org/web/20110718115815/http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/cercam/article.php3?id_article=428 Jean Meyers], Félix Fabri. Les errances de Frère Félix, pélerin en Terre sainte, en Arabie et en Égypte (1480–1483). Tome I : Premier et deuxième traités. Montpellier : Publications de l'Université Paul-Valéry et du [https://web.archive.org/web/20060202002619/http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/cercam/ CERCAM], 2000, 438 p.
Félix Fabri. Les errances de Frère Félix, pélerin en Terre sainte, en Arabie et en Égypte (1480–1483). Tome II : Troisième et quatrième traités. Texte Latin, introduction, traduction et notes sous la direction de Jean Meyers et Nicole Chareyron, Montpellier : Publications de l'Université Paul-Valéry et du CERCAM, 2003, 453 p.
{{cite journal | author = Murray, G.W.| authorlink=| title = Felix Fabri's pilgrimage from Gaza to Mount Sinai and Cairo, A.D. 1483| journal = The Geographical Journal| volume = 122|issue=3 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/sim_geographical-journal_1956-09_122_3/page/334/mode/1up 335]–[https://archive.org/details/sim_geographical-journal_1956-09_122_3/page/341/mode/1up 342] |url = https://archive.org/details/sim_geographical-journal_1956-09_122_3| year = 1956| doi=10.2307/1791014| jstor=1791014| bibcode=1956GeogJ.122..335M}}
Prescott, H. F. M. (1950). Friar Felix at Large: A Fifteenth-century Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Yale University Press.
{{cite book|last=Prescott|first=H.F.M. |authorlink=H. F. M. Prescott |year=1954|url=https://archive.org/details/jerusalemjourney0000pres |title= Jerusalem journey, pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the fifteenth century|location=London| publisher=Eyre & Spottiswoode}}
{{cite book|last=Prescott|first=H.F.M. |authorlink=H. F. M. Prescott |year=1958|url=https://archive.org/details/oncetosinaithefu008226mbp |title= Once to Sinai : Further Pilgrimage of Friar Felix Fabri| publisher= The Macmillan Company}}
Pilgrimage Yesterday and Today (1988) J. G. Davies, SCM Press Ltd.

Category:1440s births

Category:1502 deaths

Category:Swiss Dominicans

Category:Holy Land travellers

Category:Year of birth uncertain

Category:Medieval Knights of the Holy Sepulchre