Chronicles of the Crusades, being contemporary narratives of the crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion / by Richard of Devizes [translated by J.A. Giles] and Geoffrey de Vinsauf; and of the crusade of Saint Louis, by Lord John de Joinville [translated by T. Johnes].

London : H. G. Bohn, 1848.

vi, 562 pages : color frontispiece ; (8vo)

The chronicle here attributed to Geoffrey de Vinsauf is now shown to be, in large part, a Latin translation of Ambroses L'estoire de la guerre sainte, probably made by Richard, canon and prior of Holy Trinity, London, about 1200. cf. Gross, Sources and literature of English history

Copy 1 Note: Publisher's cat. (40 p.) at end. Translator of second work not identified; the attribution of this work, 'Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta Regis Ricardi', to Geoffrey de Vinsauf is no longer accepted (see E.B. Graves (ed.) 'A bibliography of British history to 1485', Oxford, 1975).

Chronicle of Richard of Devizes, concerning the deeds of King Richard the First, king of England [tr. by J. A. Giles] - Geoffrey de Vinsauf's chronicle of Richard of First's Crusade. -Lord de Joinbelle's Memoirs of Louis IX, king of France, commonly called Saint Louis [tr. by Thomas Johnes] -Appendix to Joinville. List of the knights who accompanied Saint Louis to Palestine. Knights of the household who accompanied him to Tunis. Extracts from an Arabian ms., by Al Makrisi, containing the Saracenic account of the Crusade under St. Louis. -Index