List of collections of Crusader sources

The list of collections of Crusader sources provides those collections of original sources for the Crusades from the 17th century through the 20th century. These include collections, regesta and bibliotheca, and provide valuable insight into the historiography of the Crusades though the identification of the various editions and translations of the sources, as well as commentary on these sources. Beginning in the 16th century, Crusader historiography included the collection, editing and interpretation of original texts. This was supplemented by the collection of major secular and religious documents. Where appropriate, the abbreviations commonly used in modern histories of the Crusades are identified. Editors are referenced, where available, to the various national collection of biographies and collections linked to the digital libraries of the University of Michigan's HathiTrust and OCLC's WorldCat.

Principal collections of narrative sources The principal collections of narrative sources for the Crusades referenced in modern Crusader histories are catalogued as Chronicles and Histories, Travelogues and Geography, and Bibliographies. They include the following.Les Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA). "Récits de voyage et traités géographie".Les Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA). "Nouvelles notices bibliographiques".

Recueil des historiens des croisades (RHC) The premier collections of original Crusader sources are the Recueil des historiens des croisades (Collection of the Historians of the Crusades) and its predecessor Gesta Dei per Francos. The influential work Recueil des historiens des croisades is in 16 volumes, Publ. Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Paris (1841–1906). RHC is the definitive collection of original Crusader sources from Western, Greek, Arabic, Armenian and Syrian authors. The volumes are organized into five series covering legal documents and Western, Arabic, Byzantine and Armenian/Syrian works.

Recueil des historiens des croisades lois (RHC Lois). Assises de Jérusalem ou Recueil des ouvrages de jurisprudence composés pendant le XIIIe siècle dans les royaumes de Jérusalem et de Chypre, 2 volumes, Paris (1841–1843). Edited by French historian and statesman Auguste-Arthur Beugnot (1797–1865). A treatise on the Assizes of Jerusalem, the legal documents of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Includes works of historian Philip of Novara (1200–1270), jurist John of Ibelin (1215–1266), Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, and the Lignages d'Outremer.Deutsche Biographie (1955). "Auguste Arthur de Beugnot". In Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). 2. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin. Recueil des historiens des croisades historiens occidentaux (RHC Oc.), 5 volumes, Paris (1844–1895). Includes the work of William of Tyre and continuations; the 12 original Latin Chronicles of the First Crusade; other contemporaneous works on the First Crusade; and documents related to the Knights Hospitaller. Recueil des historiens des croisades historiens orientaux (RHC Or.), 5 volumes, Paris (1872–1906). Includes extracts from The Complete History of Arab/Kurdish historian Ali ibn al-Athir (1160–1233), The Book of the Two Gardens by Arab historian Abu Shama (1203–1268), al-Rihlah (The Voyage) by Arab geographer Ibn Jubayr (1145–1217), and a biography of Saladin by Abu'l-Mahāsin Yūsuf (1411–1469). Recueil des historiens des croisades historiens grecs (RHC Gr.), 2 volumes, Paris (1875–1881). Edited by French Hellenist Carl B. Hase (1780–1864). Includes The Alexiad by Anna Komnene (1083–1153)Halm, Karl Ritter von (1879). "Karl Benedikt Hase". In Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). 10. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin. Recueil des historiens des croisades documents arméniens (RHC Ar.), 2 volumes, Paris (1869–1906). Includes the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa (second half of 11th century–1144), the Chronicle of Michael the Syrian (1126–1199) and Les Gestes des Chiprois.

Gesta Dei per Francos (God's Work through the Franks, GDF), 2 volumes, Hannau (1611), is the precursor to [] was edited by French scholar and diplomat Jacques Bongars (1554–1612). Early collection of original sources for the Crusades. The compendium, dedicated to Louis XIII of France, includes most of the main narrative sources for the First Crusade and Fifth Crusade, as well as Historia Rerum in Partibus Transmarinis Gestarum of William of Tyre, Secretorum Fidelium Crucis of Marino Sanudo and De recuperatione Terre Sancte of Pierre Dubois.Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Jacques Bongars. Encyclopædia Britannica. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 204.Hoefer, Ferdinand (1858). "Jacques Bongars". In Nouvelle Biographie Générale, 6. p. 568

Other chronicles and histories

Archives de l'Orient Latin (AOL), 2 volumes, Société de l'Orient Latin, Paris (1881–1884). A collection of Crusader sources of itineraries, chronicles, letters and charters, continued by Revue de l'Orient Latin.Revue de l'Orient latin. Paris, E. Leroux. Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I, 4 volumes, London (1885–1890), Rolls Series. Edited by English historian Richard Howlett (1841–1917). Collected English chronicles concerning the kings of England from 1135–1199, including those by William of Newburgh, Robert of Torigni, Richard of Devizes, Richard, Prior of Hexiam, and others.Howlett, R., Robert, d. Torigni., Richard, o. Devizes., Fantosme, J., Aelred, o. Rievaulx., Richard, o. Hexham., Etienne, d. Rouen., William, o. Newburgh. (1964). Chronicles of the reigns of Stephen, Henry II, and Richard I. [Wiesbaden]: Kraus Reprint.Richard Howlett, 1841–1917. WorldCat Identities. Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, id est, De bello sacro historia, exposita libris XII & nunc primum in lucem edita, 1 volume, Frankfurt (1584). Edited by German historian Reinier Reineck (1541–1595), with commentary by German philologist and historian Matthäus Dresser (1536–1607). Collection of original Crusader sources, including the works of Albert of Aachen. (cf. German Wikipedia, Reiner Reineccius, Matthäus Dresser)Zimmermann, P. (1889). "Reiner Reineccius". In Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). 28. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.Grimm, Heinrich (1959). "Matthäus Dresser (Drescher)". In Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). 4. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin Collection des mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France, 31 volumes, Paris (1823–1835). Edited by French historian François Guizot (1787–1874). A collection of original documents on the history of France from the founding of the French monarchy until the 13th century, with an introduction, supplements, notices and notes. Includes numerous translation of original sources, including William of Tyre and Albert of Aachen.Guizot, M. (François). (182335). Collection des mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France: depuis la fondation de la monarchie française jusqu'au 13e siècle. Paris: Chez J.-L.-J. Brière. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (CSCO), 600+ volumes, Paris (1903 ff.). Publication and editing led by Syriac scholar Jean-Baptiste Chabot (1860–1948), supported by French orientalist Bernard Carra de Vaux (1867–1953), Chaldean priest and orientalist Louis Cheikho (1859–1927), Italian orientalist Ignazio Guidi (1844–1935) and Franco-American Coptologist Henri Hyvernat (1858–1941). A collection of Eastern Christian texts in Syriac, Arabic, Coptic, Ethopic, Armenian and Georgian.Syriac Reference Portal (2016), "Jean-Baptiste Chabot— ܝܘܚܢܢ ܫܒܐ " in The Syriac Biographical Dictionary (SBD)Bernard Carra de Vaux, WorldCat Identities.Deutsche Biographie (1957). "Louis Cheikho". In Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). 3. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.Enciclopedia Treccani (2004). "Ignazio Guido" in Dizionario biografico degli italiani (DBI). 61. Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, RomeDeutsche Biographie (1974). "Henri Hyverna ". In Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). 10. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin. Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im mittelalter bis zur mitte des dreizehnten jahrhunderts, 2 volumes, Berlin (1858). Edited by German historian Wilhelm Wattenbach (1819–1897). Germany's historical sources from the Middle Ages to the middle of the 13th century.Wattenbach, W. (18931894). Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts. 6. umgearb. Aufl. Berlin: W. Hertz.Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wattenbach, Wilhelm". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 418. Documents relatifs à l'histoire des croisades (DHR Cr), 22 volumes, Paris (1946 ff.). French collection of documents on the history of the Crusades. (cf. German Wikipedia, Documents relatifs à l'histoire des croisades) The Eclipse of the Abbasid Caliphate: Original Chronicles of the Fourth Islamic Century, 7 volumes, Oxford (1920–1921). Edited by British orientalists David S. Margoliouth (1858–1940) and Henry P. Amedroz (1854–1917). Includes the Book of Viziers of Hilal al-Sabi', Tajárib al-Umam by Miskawayh and the Damascus Chronicles of ibn al-Qalanisi.Margoliouth, D. S. (David Samuel)., Amedroz, H. F. (Henry Frederick)., ابن مسكويه, . بن محمد. (192021). The Eclipse of the ʻAbbasid caliphate: original chronicles of the fourth Islamic century. Oxford: B. Blackwell.A. F. L. Beeston (2004). "David Samuel Margoliouth". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.Henry F. Amedroz, 1855–1917. WorldCat Identities. Extraits des Historiens Arabes, 1 volume, Paris (1829). Edited by French orientalist Joseph T. Reinaud (1795–1867). Extracts by Arab authors as they relate to the Crusades. Published in Michaud's Bibliothèque des Croisades.Reinaud, J. Toussaint. (1829). Extraits des historiens arabes: relatifs aux guerres des croisades, ouvrage formant, d'apres les ecrivains musulmans, un recit suivi des guerresaintes--. Nouv. ed. [Paris]: L'Imprimerie royale. Histoire de l'île de Chypre sous le règne des princes de la maison de Lusignan, 3 volumes, Paris (1852–1861). Edited by French historian Louis de Mas Latrie (1815–1897). History (Histore, Volume I) and documents (Documents, Volumes II, III) on the history of Cyprus from the reign of the House of Lusignan. Supplemented by Nouvelles Preuves del'Historie de Chypre.Mas Latrie, L. de (Louis). (185261). Histoire de l'île de Chypre sous le règne des princes de la maison de Lusignan. Paris: Imprimerie impériale [etc.]. Histoire littéraire de la France, 46 volumes, Paris (1733–1892). Begun by French Benedictine monk Antoine Rivet de La Grange (1683–1749), known as Dom Rivet, and the Maurists. A collection of the literature of France. Of most interest to the Crusades is Tome VIII which includes a biography of Godfrey of Bouillon and works by Raymond of Aguilers and Peter Tudebode.Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France). (17331862). Histoire litteraire de la France. Paris: Firmin Didot [etc.]. Les Gestes des Chiprois, 1 volume, Geneva (1887). Edited by French historian and philologist Gaston Raynaud (1850–1911). A history of the Crusades in three parts by an anonymous author, Italian historian Philip of Novara (1200–1270), and Gérard de Monréal, secretary to Guillaume de Beaujeu, Grand Master of the Knights Templar.Gérard de Monréal, a. 13th century-14th century., Filippo, d. Novara., Raynaud, G., Société de l'Orient latin (Paris, F. (1887). Les gestes des Chiprois: recueil de chroniques françaises écrites en Orient au XIIIe & XVIe siècles (Philippe de Navarre & Gérard de Monréal). Genève: J.G. Fick.Deutsche Biographie (1997). "Gérard de Monréal". In Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). 18. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.Gaston Raynaud 1850–1911. WorldCat Identities.