The Recueil des historiens des croisades (trans: Collection of the Historians of the Crusades) is a major collection of several thousand medieval documents written during the Crusades. The documents were collected and published in Paris in the late 19th century, and include documents in Latin, Greek, Arabic, Old French, and Armenian. The documents cover the entire period of the Crusades, and are frequently cited in scholarly works, as a way of locating a specific document. When being quoted in citations, the collection is often abbreviated as RHC or R.H.C..
Images of the documents can be viewed in some major libraries. The 1967 reprint of the entire collection by Gregg Press can also be found in major libraries, and there are also full-text PDF files available online, which have been made available by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France Gallica project. Documents can be downloaded in their entirety, or stepped through page by page, with both the original text, and a French translation.
The RHC is divided into five series:
Lois ("RHC Lois"; the Assizes of Jerusalem)
Historiens occidentaux ("RHC Oc" or "RHC Occ"; Western European texts in Latin and Old French)
Historiens orientaux ("RHC Or"; Arabic texts)
Historiens grecs ("RHC Grec"; Greek texts)
Historiens arméniens ("RHC Arm"; Armenian texts)
Full title: Assises de Jérusalem ou Recueil des ouvrages de jurisprudence composés pendant le XIIIe siècle dans les royaumes de Jérusalem et de Chypre, par M. Le Comte Beugnot
Introduction to the Assizes of the Haute Cour (by Beugnot)
I. Livre de Jean d'Ibelin
II. Livre de Geoffroy le Tort
III. Livre de Jacques d'Ibelin
IV. Livre de Philippe de Navarre
V. La Clef des Assises de la Haute Cour du royaume de Jérusalem et de Chypre
VI. Le Livre au Roi
Table des matières
Introduction to the Assizes of the Cour des Bourgeois (by Beugnot)
I. Livre des Assises de la Cour des Bourgeois
II. Abrégé du Livre des Assises de la Cour des Bourgeois
III. Bans et Ordonnances des rois de Chypre
IV. Formules
Appendix
I. Documents relatifs à la successibilité au trône et à la régence
II. Document relatif au service militaire
III. Les Lignages d'Outremer
IV. Charters
Glossary
Table of contents.
Report on the publication of the Recueil des historiens des croisades
Preface
Notice on the general map of the theatre of the crusades
Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum (in Latin) / L’estoire de eracles émpereur (in Old French) up to book 23 (William of Tyre)
Variantes Lectiones
Index Generalis
Preface
Description of the manuscripts
Table of contents of the second volume
Corrections and additions
L’estoire de eracles émpereur (continuation; in Old French) Book 23 to 34
Continuation of William of Tyre from the so-called "Rothelin manuscript"
Chronological analysis of William of Tyre and his continuators
Glossary
Table
Preface
I. Petri Tudebodi seu Tudebovis, sacerdotis Sivracensis, historia de Hierosolymitano itinere
II. Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum, seu Tudebodus abbreviatus
III. Tudebodus imitatus et continuatus, ex codice bibliothecae casinensis qui inscribitur, Historia peregrinorum euntium Jerusolymam ad liberandum Sanctum Sepulcrum de potestate ethnicorum, et a cl. Viro Mabillone editus est in Musaeo italico
IV. Raimundi de Aguilers, canonici Podiensis, historia Francorum qui ceperunt Iherusalem
V. Historia Iherosolymitana. Gesta Francorum Iherusalem peregrinantium, ab anno Domini MXCV usque ad annum MCXXVII, auctore domno Fulcherio Carnotensi
VI. Gesta Francorum expugnantium Iherusalem
VII. Secunda pars historiae Iherosolimitanae
VIII. Gesta Tancredi in expeditione Hierosolymitana, auctore Rudolfo Cadomensi, ejus familiari
IX. Roberti Monachi historia Iherosolimitana
X. Stephani, comitis Carnotensis, atque Anselmi de Ribodi Monte epistolae
Index generalis quo nomina quae ad res, locos et homines pertinent, comprehenduntur
Preface
I. Baldrici, episcopi Dolensis, Historia Jerosolimitana
II. Historia quae dicitur Gesta Dei per Francos, edita a venerabili Domno Guiberto, abbate monasterii Sanctae Mariae Novigenti
III. Alberti Aquensis Historia Hierosolymitana
Index generalis quo nomina quae ad res locos, homines, pertinent, comprehenduntur
Preface
I. Ekkehardi abbatis Uraugiensis Hierosolymita
II. Cafari de Caschifelone, Genuensis, De libertatione civitatum Orientis
III. Galterii, cancellarii Antiocheni, Bella Antiochena, 1114–1119
IV. Balduini III Historia Nicaena vel Antiochena
V. Theodori Palidensis Narratio profectionis Godefridi ducis ad Jerusalem
VI. Passiones beati Thiemonis
VII. Documenta Lipsanographica ad I. bellum sacrum spectantia
VIII. Primi belli sacri Narrationes minores
IX. Exordium Hospitalariorum
X. Historia Gotfridi
XI. Benedicti de Accoltis, Aretini, Historia Gotefridi
XII. Li Estoire de Jerusalem et d’Antioche
XIII. Itinerario di la gran militia, a la pavese
XIV. Fulco. Gilo
Index generalis
Introduction
Résumé of the history of the crusades taken from the annals of abou ‘L-Feda (Arabic/French)
Autobiography of Abu-l-Feda, extract from his chronicle
Extract from the Kamel-Altevarykh by Ibn-Alatyr (Arabic/French)
Appendix
Notes and corrections
Index
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Extract from the Kamel-Altevarykh by Ibn-Alatyr (continuation) (Arabic/French)
Extracts from The Necklace of Pearls by Badr al-Din al-Ayni (Arabic/French)
List of chapters from the extract of the Kamel-Altevarykh by Ibn-Alatyr
Index
History of the Atabegs of Mosul by Ibn El-Athir (Arabic/French)
List of chapters
Index
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Anecdotes and good habits of the life of the Sultan Youssof (Arabic/French)
List of chapters
Notice on Beha Ed-Din Abou’L-Mehacen Ibn Cheddad, Extracte from the Dictionary of Ibn Khallican (Arabic/French)
Abd al-Latif
Ibn Jubayr
Extracts from the Nujum az-Zahireh (Arabic/French)
Extracts from the Mirat az-Zeman (Arabic/French)
Extracts from the Chronicle of Aleppo by Chronique d‘Alep par Kamal ad-Din (Arabic/French)
Extracts from the biographical dictionary of Kamal ad-Din (Arabic/French)
Index
The Book of the Two Gardens, History of the Two Kingdoms, that of Nur ad-Din and that of Saladin (13 June 1146 – 29 January 1191), by Abu Shama (Arabic/French)
Tables des Matières
Publications
The Book of the Two Gardens, History of the Two Kingdoms, that of Nur ad-Din and that of Saladin (continuation)
Index
Preface
Variantes lectiones e codice Florentino
I. Scriptores Graeci Bellorum a Francis dei signa sequentibus in Syria susceptorum (Michael Attaliata, Psellus), Annotationes Historiae et philologicae ad partem primam
I. Scriptores Graeci Bellorum a Francis dei signa sequentibus in Syria Susceptorum. Pars secunda (Anna Comnena)
III. Scriptores Graeci Bellorum a Francis dei signa sequentibus in Syria Susceptorum. Pars tertia. Transitio. (Cinnamus, Nicetas)
IV. Scriptores Graeci Bellorum a Francis dei signa sequentibus in Syria Susceptorum. Pars quarta (Nicetas)
V. Scriptores Graeci Bellorum a Francis dei signa sequentibus in Syria Susceptorum. Pars quinta. (Nicephorus Gregoras, Ioannes Phocas, Neophytus, Georgius Agropolita De Syria Expugnata. (Ephraemius)
Addenda et corrigenda
Preface
Scriptores Graeci Bellorum a Francis dei signa sequentibus in Syria Susceptorum. Adnotationes Historicae et philologicae ad partem secundum.
Scriptores Graeci Bellorum a Francis dei signa sequentibus in Syria Susceptorum. Adnotationes Historicae et philologicae ad partem tertiam.
Scriptores Graeci Bellorum a Francis dei signa sequentibus in Syria Susceptorum. Adnotationes Historicae et philologicae ad partem
Scriptores Graeci Bellorum a Francis dei signa sequentibus in Syria Susceptorum. Adnotationes Historicae et philologicae ad partem quintam.
Scriptores Graeci Bellorum a Francis dei signa sequentibus in Syria Susceptorum. Appendix (Theodorus Prodromius)
Index Graecitatis
Addenda et corrigenda
Preface
Introduction
Chap. I. Physical geography, considered together with political geography
Chap. II. The Kingdom of Lesser Armenia from the historical point of view
Chap. III. Commerce, customs tariffs, and civil condition of foreigners in Lesser Armenia
Genealogical and dynastic tables
Matthew of Edessa
Gregory the Priest
Basil the Doctor
Patriarch Nerses Shnorhali
Patriarch Gregory Dgh'a
Michael the Syrian
Guiragos of Kantzag
Vartan the Great
Samuel of Ani
Hethoum the historian, count of Gorigos
Bahram of Edessa
Popular song on the captivity of Leo
Hetoum II of Armenia
Saint Nerses of Lambron
Sempad the Constable
Mardiros (Martyr) of Crimea
Doctor Mekhithar of Dashir
Appendis
Armenian charters
Index
Preface
I. Chronicle of Armenia (Jean Dardel)
II. La Flor des Estoires des parties d’Orient. Livre I.-IV. (Hayton)
Flos historiarum terre Orientis. Liber I.-IV. (Haytonus)
III. Directorium ad passagium faciendum. (Brocardus)
IV. De modo saracenos extirpandi (Guillaume Adam)
V. Responsio ad errores impositos Hermenis (Daniel de Thaurisio)
VI. Les gestes des Chiprois. Livre I.-III.
Index
Additions and corrections
