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Hayton of Corycus

''(1307)''

''Armenian noble.''

''La Flor des Estoires de la Terre d’Orient.''

''Old French.''


Livre IV Chapitre X

Devers midi confine avec le regne de Nubie, qui sont crestiens, e sont tout noirs por la chalor del solail; e entre l’une terre a l’autre est chemin du XII jourées, tout desert e sablon.

Chapitre XVI

Encores, quant les Sarrazins ont pais e treves ou les Nubiens, e les Beduins du desert d’Egypte, si que ne leur movent brigue ne guerre.

Chapitre XXIII

Encores, que la Vostre Sainte Paternitei vulle escrie au roi des Nubiens, qui sont Crestiens, e furent convertiz à la foi de Crist par monseignor saint Thomas l’apostle en la terre d’Ethiope, mandant que deusent movoir guerre au Soudan e à sa gent. E je croi fermement que les devant dis Nubiens, por l’oneur Nostre Seignor Jhesu Crist, e por reverence de la Vostre Saintetei, moveroient guerre au Soudan e sa gent, e lur feroient ennui e damage, à lur poer; e ce seroit grant destorbement au Soudan e à sa gent.


(''Chapter 10''

''The middle crossroads borders with the kingdom of Nubia, who are Christian, and are all black by the burning of the sun, and between this land and the next there is a journey of 12 days across fine sandy desert.''

''Chapter 16''

''For the Saracens have made a pledge with the country of the Nubians, and Bedouins of the desert of Egypt, so that they do not engage in war.''

''Chapter 23''

''Your Holy Father wrote to the king of the Nubians, who are Christians and were converted to the faith of Christ by the apostle St. Thomas in the land of Ethiopia, as principal leader to move to war in Sudan and to its people. And I firmly believe to say that the Nubians, for the honour of our lord Jesus Christ, and for reverence of Your Sanctity, will move to war against Sudan's people, and it would bring discontent and damage to their poor; and this would grant disruption to the Sudan and to its people.'')


'''Selected editions'''

Receuil des Historians des Croisades. Documents Arméniens. Tome II (Paris: 1906).

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