Recueil des historiens des croisades

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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)

Lois (1841–1843)

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

Volume 1

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

Volume 2

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.

Volume 1 (1844)

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

Volume 2 (1859)

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

Volume 3 (1866)

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

Volume 4 (1879)

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

Volume 5 (1895)

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

Volume 1 (1872)

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

Volume 2, part 1 (1887)

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

Volume 2, part 2 (1876)

History of the Atabegs of Mosul by Ibn El-Athir (Arabic/French)

List of chapters

Index

Volume 3 (1884)

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

Volume 4 (1898)

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

Volume 5 (1906)

The Book of the Two Gardens, History of the Two Kingdoms, that of Nur ad-Din and that of Saladin (continuation)

Index

Volume 1 (1875)

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

Volume 2 (1881)

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

Volume 1 (1869)

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

Volume 2 (1906)

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

References

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Contents

Contents

Lois (1841–1843)

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 1 (1844)

Volume 2 (1859)

Volume 3 (1866)

Volume 4 (1879)

Volume 5 (1895)

Volume 1 (1872)

Volume 2, part 1 (1887)

Volume 2, part 2 (1876)

Volume 3 (1884)

Volume 4 (1898)

Volume 5 (1906)

Volume 1 (1875)

Volume 2 (1881)

Volume 1 (1869)

Volume 2 (1906)

References