Since it is Lent and all, and since the topic of Lent in the East came up in the forum, I figured I would take a quick break from the major Krauth project I have been working on to give a vital primary source.
In the 1880's a fragmentary Latin Manuscript was found in an Italian Monastery, detailing a woman's pilgrimage to the Holy Land from some time in the 4th century. From what I can understand, our best guess is that her name was Egeria, but almost a hundred years ago when this translation was made, the best guess was "Etheria".
Not much is known about this woman other than she was probably from Gaul (Spain or France), she knew her scriptures quite well, she knew worship practices quite well, and she had a strong personality.
My interest in this document is for the witness to the worship practices of the Jerusalem Church around Holy Week, but she talks about many things on her trip.
Main source is http://www.ccel.org/ccel/mcclure/etheria/files/etheria.html
I have also consulted http://www.archive.org/details/pilgrimageofethe00mccliala
In the original, the footnotes were numbered by page. I have renumbered them for this edition. Where footnotes reference other footnotes, I have added a parenthetical note for the new number. In addition, I have converted the greek into unicode. From Archive.org I see that there is extensive introductory material. I have not included this as of this time. Maybe I will go back to include it if I get around to it, but this is a quick port of the ccel version and not the whole book.
SDG,
Ken McGuire
PS - here is a cover...
