Tartar Relation

The start of the Tartar Relation in the Lucerne manuscript. The rubric (red) above the first line reads Incipit hystoria tartarorum.

The Tartar Relation (Latin: Hystoria Tartarorum, "History of the Tartars") is an ethnographic report on the Mongol Empire composed by a certain C. de Bridia in Latin in 1247. It is one of the most detailed accounts of the history and customs of the Mongols to appear in Europe around that time.