Via ad Terram Sanctam

[4] In answer to the first question, the ideal date for arriving in the Holy Land is said to be the Feast of the Cross (14 September).

[4] In answering the second question, the author considers and excludes the ports of Alexandria, Damietta, Acre and Tripoli, as well as a landing on Cyprus.

[5] In the final section, the author describes the route of march from Gaza to Cairo, naming the inhabited places, the possibilities for provisioning and giving relative distances.

[6] The Latin edition deletes sections on establishing an alliance with the Mongols and on wintering the fleet in Ayas and using it during land operations.

[3] The Via's editor, Charles Kohler, argues that the original version was written prior to the fall of Tripoli (1289).

It was the geographical interest of the work that led an anonymous Jew to partially translate the Memoria into Hebrew in the 14th century.

This religiously neutral Hebrew version of a crusading text is found in a single manuscript, now Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, De Rossi 1426.