William of Rubruck -- Sources

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Itinerarium fratris Willielmi de Rubruquis de ordine fratrum Minorum, Galli, Anno gratiae 1253 ad partes Orientales

Manuscripts:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith LXVI (see image below) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith CCCVII (see image below) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith CLXXXI (see image below) London, British Library, King’s Library 14.C.XIII Leiden, University Library, Ms. Vossius 77

Itinerarium in terram sanctam_ as found in CCCC (Cambridge Corpus Christi College) MS 66A, pp. 67r-110r

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith LXVI Itinerarium in terram sanctam_ as found in CCCC (Cambridge Corpus Christi College) MS 66A, pp. 67r-110r https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/nh671tc2872

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith CCCVII Itinerarium in terram sanctam_ as found in CCCC (Cambridge Corpus Christi College) MS 407, pp. 37r-68v https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/mj309qh4224

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith CLXXXI (see image below) Itinerarium in terram sanctam_ as found in CCCC (Cambridge Corpus Christi College) MS 181, p. 321 to end https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/gg784fk0128

Text:

A. Van Den Wyngaert (ed.), Sinica Franciscana, I (Florence, 1929), pp. 164-332 [Latin text].

Translations and Editions:

Richard Hakluyt produced a partial translation in 1599-1600. "Itinerarium fratis Willielmi de Rubruquis de ordine fratrum Minorum, Galli, Anno gratie 1253.ad". The Principall Navigations Voiages Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (in English and Latin). London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Baker. pp. 71-92 Latin text, 93-117 English translation. Based on British Library MS Royal 14.C.XIII Fol. 225r-236r and thus ends prematurely.

The full account was published in French and Latin in 1839 by Francisque Michel and Thomas Wright: "Voyage en Orient du Frère Guillaume de Rubruk". In M.A.P. d'Avezac-Macaya, Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires, Volume 4. Paris: Société de Geographie. pp. 205–396. Latin text. Also known as: Relations des voyages de Guillaume de Rubruk, Bernard le Sage et Sæwulf, publiées en entier pour la première fois d'après les manuscrits de Cambridge, de Leyde et de Londres, 1830 https://archive.org/details/RelationsDesVoyagesDeGuillaume/page/n10

An English translation and edition by William Woodville Rockhill, The Journey of William of Rubruk to the Eastern Parts, 1253-55 was published by the Hakluyt Society, London 1900.

The Hakluyt Society released an updated translation by Peter Jackson, The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck; His Journey to the court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253-1255 (London, The Hakluyt Society, 1990).

Risch, Friedrich, trans. and ed., Geschichte der Mongolen und Reisebericht, 1245-1247. Leipzig: E. Pfeiffer, 1930.

Kappler, Claude and René. Guillaume de Rubrouck envoyé de saint Louis: Voyage dans l’empire mongol. French translation, Paris, 1986.

Chiesa, Paolo. William of Rubruck, Itinerarium, new critical edition with Italian translation, P Guglielmo di Rubruk. Viaggio in Mongolia, Milan, 2011.

Selected Bibliography

Bacon, Roger. Opus Maius (ca. 1267), ed. J. H. Bridges, 3 vols., Oxford and London, 1897-1900.

Charpentier, J., “William of Rubruck and Roger Bacon,” in Hyllningsskrift tillägnad Sven Hedin på hans 70-årsdag den 19. Febr. 1935 (Stockholm, 1935), pp. 255-67.

Chiesa, Paolo, “Testo e tradizione dell’«Itinerarium» di Guglielmo di Rubruck,” Filologia Mediolatina 15, 2008, pp. 133-216.

Clark, Larry V. “The Turkic and Mongol Words in William of Rubruck’s Journey (1253-1255),” Journal of the American Oriental Society 93, 1973, pp. 181-89.

Dauvillier, J., “Guillaume de Rubrouck et les communautés chaldéennes d’Asie centrale au Moyen Age,” L’Orient Syrien 2, 1957, pp. 223-42.

Dawson, Christopher, ed., Mission to Asia (New York, 1966). Narratives and letters of the Franciscan missionaries in Mongolia and China in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Originally published in 1955 under the title The Mongol Mission. Writings of John of Plano Carpini, Brother Benedict the Pole, William of Rubruck, letters of John of Monte Corvino, Brother Peregrine, Bishop of Zaytun, and Andrew of Perugia. Scanned and uploaded by Robert Bedrosian. in 281 searchable pdf pages. https://archive.org/details/Dawson1966MissionToAsia

Grousset, Renė. Empire des Steppes. Paris, 1939.

Pelliot, Paul “Guillaume de Rubrouck,” in idem., Recherches sur les chrétiens d’Asie centrale et d’Extrême-Orient, ed. J. Dauvillier, (Paris, 1973), pp. 75-235.

Rossabi, Morris. From Yuan to Modern China and Mongolia: The Writings of Morris Rossabi. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Walford, Naomi, trans. The Empire of the Steppes. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1970.

A number of these works, including the earlier Hakluyt translation by W.W.Rockhill, Roger Bacon and Empire des Steppes are available on-line at www.archive.org and elsewhere.

Manuscripts

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith LXVI.
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith CCCVII.
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith CLXXXI.
London, British Library, King’s Library 14.C.XIII.
Leiden, University Library, MS Vossius 77.

Text

Van Den Wyngaert, A. (ed.), Sinica Franciscana, Vol. I (Florence, 1929).

English translation

Dawson, Christopher, ed., "The Journey of William of Rubruck, in The Mongol Mission: Narratives and Letters of the Franciscan Missionaries in Mongolia and China in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, trans. by a nun of Stanbrook Abbey. The Makers of Christendom series.London and New York: Sheed and Ward. 1955.

Rockhill, W. W. (trans. and ed.), The Journey of Friar William of Rubruck, 1253–55 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1900); revised by Peter Jackson (trans. and intro.), The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck; His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253–1255 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1990).

From the Silk Road Site:

William (Guillaume/Willem) of Rubruck (Ruysbroeck).

Primary sources:

Christopher Dawson, Mission to Asia [published earlier as The Mongol Mission] (Toronto, etc., 1980), 89-220.

The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253-1255. Tr. Peter Jackson; intr., notes and appendices by Peter Jackson with David Morgan (London, 1990) (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., no. 173; revision of the 1900 ed. by W. W. Rockhill, Hakluyt 2nd ser., no. 4).

Secondary sources:

I. de Rachewiltz, Papal Envoys to the Great Khans (Stanford, 1971), Ch. VI.

Leonardo Olschki, Marco Polo's Asia: An Introduction to His "Description of the World" Called "Il Milione" (Berkeley and L.A., 1960), 64-73.

Chinese Summary of Sources:

威廉米·德·鲁布罗奎斯·奥丁·米诺姆·加利，东方之旅

手稿体系：

现藏于：Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith LXVI (see image below)
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith CCCVII (see image below)
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith CLXXXI (see image below)
London, British Library, King’s Library 14.C.XIII
Leiden, University Library, Ms. Vossius 77

Itinerarium in terram sanctam as found in CCCC (Cambridge Corpus Christi College) MS 66A, pp. 67r-110r Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith LXVI Itinerarium in terram sanctam_ as found in CCCC (Cambridge Corpus Christi College) MS 66A, pp. 67r-110r https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/nh671tc2872

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith CCCVII Itinerarium in terram sanctam_ as found in CCCC (Cambridge Corpus Christi College) MS 407, pp. 37r-68v https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/mj309qh4224

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Nasmith CLXXXI (see image below) Itinerarium in terram sanctam_ as found in CCCC (Cambridge Corpus Christi College) MS 181, p. 321 to end https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/gg784fk0128

内容：

A. Van Den Wyngaert (ed.), Sinica Franciscana, I (Florence, 1929), pp. 164-332 [Latin text].

译本体系：

1599年至1600年版，理查德·哈克卢伊特(Richard Hakluyt)在间对其进行了部分翻译。"Itinerarium fratis Willielmi de Rubruquis de ordine fratrum Minorum, Galli, Anno gratie 1253.ad". The Principall Navigations Voiages Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (in English and Latin). London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Baker. pp. 71–92 Latin text, 93–117 English translation. Based on British Library MS Royal 14.C.XIII Fol. 225r-236r and thus ends prematurely.

1839年版本，弗朗西斯科·米歇尔和托马斯·怀特用法语和拉丁语出版了完整的记述:"Voyage en Orient du Frère Guillaume de Rubruk". In d'Avezac-Macaya, M.A.P. Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires Volume 4. Paris: Société de Geographie. pp. 205–396. Latin text. Also known as: Relations des voyages de Guillaume de Rubruk, Bernard le Sage et Sæwulf, publiées en entier pour la première fois d'après les manuscrits de Cambridge, de Leyde et de Londres, 1830.
https://archive.org/details/RelationsDesVoyagesDeGuillaume/page/n10

由威廉·伍德维尔·罗克希尔(William Woodville Rockhill)翻译的英文版， The Journey of William of Rubruk to the Eastern Parts, 1253-55 was published by the Hakluyt Society, London 1900.

哈克卢伊特学会发布了彼得·杰克逊的最新译本，The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck; His Journey to the court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253-1255 (London, The Hakluyt Society, 1990).

里施，弗里德里希版本。Geschichte der Mongolen und Reisebericht, 1245-1247. Leipzig: E. Pfeiffer, 1930.

开普勒，克劳德和勒内版本。Guillaume de Rubrouck envoyé de saint Louis: Voyage dans l’empire mongol. French translation, Paris, 1986.

Chiesa, Paolo保罗版本。William of Rubruck, Itinerarium, new critical edition with Italian translation, P Guglielmo di Rubruk. Viaggio in Mongolia, Milan, 2011.

精选目录：

培根,罗杰 Bacon, Roger. Opus Maius (c.1267), ed. J. H. Bridges, 3 vols., Oxford and London, 1897-1900.

卡彭特 Charpentier, J., “William of Rubruck and Roger Bacon,” in Hyllningsskrift tillägnad Sven Hedin på hans 70-årsdag den 19. Febr. 1935 (Stockholm, 1935), pp. 255-67.

Chiesa, Paolo, “Testo e tradizione dell’«Itinerarium» di Guglielmo di Rubruck,” Filologia Mediolatina 15, 2008, pp. 133-216.

V Clark, Larry V. “The Turkic and Mongol Words in William of Rubruck’s Journey (1253-1255),” Journal of the American Oriental Society 93, 1973, pp. 181-89.

Dauvillier, J., “Guillaume de Rubrouck et les communautés chaldéennes d’Asie centrale au Moyen Age,” L’Orient Syrien 2, 1957, pp. 223-42.

道森，克里斯托弗编辑，使命亚洲(纽约，1966年)。 十三、十四世纪方济会传教士在蒙古和中国的叙述和书信。最初出版于1955年，书名为《蒙古使命》。柏朗嘉宾的约翰、波尔本尼迪克修士、鲁布鲁克的威廉、蒙特·科尔维诺的约翰、泽通主教佩格林修士和佩鲁贾的安德鲁的书信。由罗伯特·贝德罗西安扫描上传。281个可搜索的PDF页面见:
https://archive.org/details/Dawson1966MissionToAsia

格罗塞，勒内 Grousset, Renė. Empire des Steppes. Paris, 1939.

伯希和，保罗 Pelliot, Paul “Guillaume de Rubrouck,” in idem., Recherches sur les chrétiens d’Asie centrale et d’Extrême-Orient, ed. J. Dauvillier, (Paris, 1973), pp. 75-235.

罗沙比，莫里斯Rossabi, Morris. From Yuan to Modern China and Mongolia: The Writings of Morris Rossabi. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

沃尔福德，内奥米 Walford, Naomi, trans. The Empire of the Steppes. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1970.

许多这样的作品，包括w.w.罗克希尔(W.W.Rockhill)、罗杰·培根(Roger Bacon)和大草原帝国(Empire des草原)的早期哈克卢伊特译本，都可以在www.archive.org或其他网站上找到。