Felix Fabri (also spelt Faber; 1441 – 1502) was a Swiss Dominican

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. He left vivid and detailed descriptions of his pilgrimages to

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and also in 1489 authored a book on the history of Swabia, entitled ''Historia Suevorum''. He made his early studies under the Dominicans at

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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

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was Hungarian poet and cleric János Lászai (). In Jerusalem, he met Bernhard von Breidenbach.Fabri, 1893, p
104
/ref> 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):
Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terrae sanctae, Arabiae et Aegypti peregrinationem: 3 vol.
' in

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. Vol 1. The full text, google-books, *Fabri, Felix (1849):
Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terræ Sanctæ, Arabiæ et Egypti peregrinationem
' in Latin. Vol 3. The full text, google-books, * * * * with p
677: Index

References

Sources

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 d
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. * * Prescott, H. F. M. (1950). ''Friar Felix at Large: A Fifteenth-century Pilgrimage to the Holy Land''. Yale University Press. * * *''Pilgrimage Yesterday and Today'' (1988) J. G. Davies, SCM Press Ltd. 1440s births 1502 deaths Swiss Dominicans Holy Land travellers Year of birth uncertain Medieval Knights of the Holy Sepulchre {{RC-clergy-stub