[Footnote 19: Bongarsius, who has published the original
writers of the crusades, adopts, with much complacency, the
fanatic title of Guibertus, Gesta DEI per Francos; though
some critics propose to read Gesta Diaboli per Francos,
(Hanoviae, 1611, two vols. in folio.) I shall briefly
enumerate, as they stand in this collection, the authors
whom I have used for the first crusade.
- Gesta Francorum.
- Robertus Monachus.
- Baldricus.
- Raimundus de Agiles.
- Albertus Aquensis
- Fulcherius Carnotensis.
- Guibertus.
- Willielmus Tyriensis.
- Muratori has given us,Radulphus Cadomensis de Gestis Tancredi, (Script. Rer. Ital. tom. v.
p. 285 - 333,)
- Bernardus Thesaurarius de Acquisitione Terrae Sanctae, (tom. vii. p. 664 - 848.)
The last of these was unknown to a late French historian,
who has given a large and critical list of the writers of
the crusades, (Esprit des Croisades, tom. i. p. 13 - 141,)
and most of whose judgments my own experience will allow me
to ratify. It was late before I could obtain a sight of the
French historians collected by Duchesne.
- Petri Tudebodi Sacerdotis Sivracensis Historia de Hierosolymitano Itinere,
(tom. iv. p. 773 - 815,) has been transfused into the first
anonymous writer of Bongarsius.
- The Metrical History of the first Crusade, in vii. books, (p. 890 - 912,) is of small value or account.
Note: Several new documents, particularly from the East,
have been collected by the industry of the modern historians
of the crusades, M. Michaud and Wilken. - M.]