Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum

Opening page of the Libellus in the British Library's Cotton MS Cleopatra B. I

The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum (Latin for "Little Book about the Conquest of the Holy Land by Saladin"), also called the Chronicon Terrae Sanctae ("Chronicle of the Holy Land"), is a short anonymous Latin account of the conquests of Saladin (Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn) in the Holy Land between 1186 and 1191.[1][2] The core of the text was written shortly after the events it describes and then supplemented by the addition of an account of the Third Crusade early in the thirteenth century. This probably took place at Coggeshall Abbey in England. Neither the original author nor the continuator/compiler is known by name.[3]

  1. ^ Murray 2006.
  2. ^ Brewer & Kane 2019, pp. 2–3.
  3. ^ Brewer & Kane 2019, p. 1.