ABSTRACT

In 1884, Reinhold Rohricht and Gaston Raynaud published in parallel two versions of a Latin Syrian narrative they dubbed the Annales de Terre Sainte. These texts were written in Old French and, through a series of brief annals, recounted the history of the crusades and the Latin East from 1095 to 1291. A third Old French version of the Annales that can be set alongside the two published by Rohricht and Raynaud is to be found in the Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, MS Pluteus LXI.10, and it is with particular pleasure therefore that the author is able to offer an edition of this text to Benjamin Kedar who has himself so often unearthed hitherto overlooked sources and drawn them to scholarly attention. The Florence version of the Annales ends with the events of 1277.