Original Sources

Translations of ancient and medieval written material available online. Some material in the original language is also included. Thanks are due to Duncan Head and Karl Heinz Ranitzsch for supplying most of the links here.

Egyptian : Greek and Latin : Hittite : Armenian and Georgian : Chinese : Korean : Japanese : Arabic : Indian :Mediaeval European

Egyptian

• http://www.courses.psu.edu/cams/cams400w_aek11/mhabu.html - the Medinet Habu inscriptions of Ramses III

Greek and Latin

• Notitia Dignitatum - The Notitia Dignitatum in Latin, The document is a list of dignitaries and their areas of responsibility in the Late Roman Empire
• http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/ - Perseus Project, original text and translation of a lot of Greek and Latin sources: I haven’t tried to list these separately but Herodotos, Thucydides, Caesar, Josephus, bits of Diodoros, and many others are there.
• http://classics.mit.edu/index.html - Internet Classics Archive. Translations from several languages, mostly Greek or Latin. Some just link to Perseus, but there are others (eg all Plutarch’s Lives) that Perseus doesn’t have.
• http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/index - The Latin Library (these two links seem to be the same). Many Latin texts in the original.
• http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html - text of Ammianus Marcellinus
• http://www.intratext.com/LAT/ - IntraText digital library, Latin texts in the original
• http://www.romaeterna.org/antichi/leone/latinus.html - The Tactica of Leo the Wise is not available in English, so this translation of the naval battles section into Latin may be of use to someone!
• http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/nicolaus.html - Surviving fragments of Nicolaus of Damascus’ Life of Augustus
• http://classes.yale.edu/99-00/hist325b/ConsDocs/DoukCh29.htm - Doukas on the fall of Constantinople
• http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/ArriCamp.html - Extracts from the Anabasisof Alexander describing Alexander’s major battles, in English
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/285ptolemyII.html - fragment of Athenaios on a Ptolemaic parade, in English
• http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/home.html - Cassius Dio, in English
• http://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/rus/texts/constp.html - Constantine Porphyrogenitus, fragment on Rus and Pechenegs, in English
• http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Curtius/home.html - Quintus Curtius, in Latin
• http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Frontinus/Strategemata/home.html - Frontinus, Stratagems. Both Latin and English from this page
• http://bcs.fltr.ucl.ac.be/Lydus/LydTrI.html - Iohannes Lydus (John of Lydia), Roman Institutions, in French
• http://parthia.com/parthian_stations.htm - Isidore of Charax, Parthian Stations (and fragments), in English
• http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html - Jordanes’ Gothic History, in English
• http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modengL.browse.html - Livy, in English (links to five files, under ‘Livius, Titus’)
• http://isidore-of-seville.com/library-nepos/datames-1.htm - Nepos, Lives of Datames, Aristides, Eumenes, in English
• http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~halsteis/notitia.htm - Notitia Dignitatum
• http://www.intratext.com/X/LAT0212.htm - Notitia Dignitatum
• http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/notitia.html  - Notitia Dignitatum
• http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/home.html - Polybios, in English
• http://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/prisfr8.html#246 - Priscus, fragments on Attila, in English
• http://isidore-of-seville.com/library-procopius/secrethistory-1.htm - Procopius, Secret History, in English
• http://isidore-of-seville.com/library-sallust/jugurtha-1.htm - Sallust, Jugurthine War, in English
• http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/vegetius.html - two sites with Vegetius, in Latin
• Arrian:
• http://isidore-of-seville.com/library-arrian/events-1.htm - Arrian’s Events After Alexander, in English
• http://members.tripod.com/~S_van_Dorst/Ancient_Warfare/Rome/Sources/ektaxis.html - Arrian’s Order of Battle Against the Alans, in Greek and English
• http://www.und.ac.za/und/classics/india/arrian.htm - Arrian’s Indike, in English
• Livy:
• Full translation: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/
• The Latin text is available at:http://patriot.net/~lillard/cp/liv.html

Hittite

• http://membres.lycos.fr/hatti/texts/mursili1-8.html - Annals of Mursilis, Ian Russell Lowell’s translation
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1650nesilim.html - Hittite lawcode

Armenian and Georgian

• http://rbedrosian.com/hsrces.html - translations of several Armenian histories including Sebeos and the Georgian Chronicle

Chinese

• http://threekingdoms.cjb.net/ - extracts from Sanguo Zhi (History of the Three Kingdoms), in English
• http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/texts.html - Chinese and other texts on Central Asia, in English
• http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar.htm - Sunzi’s Art of War (the 1910 Giles translation)

Korean

• http://www.hwarangdo.com/hwarang.htm - accounts of the hwarang from various Korean sources translated into English

Japanese

• http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/- extracts from the Nihongi
• http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~gwang/id97.htm - the Wei Shi extract providing the first Chinese account of Japan
• http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~gwang/id112.htm - text of several admnistrative documents on the origin of the samurai
• http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/SOURCES/asahina.htm - the Asahina Battle Chronicle (early C16th)

Arabic

• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/yarmuk.html - short extract from Baladhuri on the battle of the Yarmuk, in English
• http://www.infinityfoundation.com/ECITFutuhuframe.htm - extracts of the Futuhu-l Bulda'n on the Arabs in Sind, in English
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/arab-poitiers732.html - brief anonymous Arab accounts  of Tours/Poitiers 732, in English

Indian

• http://www.mssc.edu/projectsouthasia/history/primarydocs/Arthashastra/index.htm - Arthasastra, in English
• http://www.kashmir-information.com/Baharistan/index.html - Baharistan-i-Shahi, a Persian-language history of mediaeval Kashmir, in English
• http://www.infinityfoundation.com/ECITindiaresourceframe.htm - several accounts of Muslim invasions, from the Arabs to the Mughals

Mediaeval European

• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (several versions: in Anglo-Saxon, though)
• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Anglo/ - Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in modern English
• http://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/rus/rusprim.html - Russian primary sources, in English
• http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/ - In Parentheses, collection of translations from various languages, mostly mediaeval. Includes:
• http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/gamez_evans.pdf - El Vittorial, biography of a C14th Castilian knight
• http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/muntaner_goodenough.pdf - Muntaner’s Chronicle of the Catalan Company
• http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/jaume_forster.pdf - Chroncile of James the Conqueror of Aragon
• http://www.r3.org/bookcase/index.html - Library of the Richard III Society. Includes many 15th-century texts: the History of the Arrival of Edward IV...., the Memoirs of Philippe de Commynes, several chronicles.
• http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/STARN/poetry/BRUS/contents.htm - "The Brus", John Barbour's near-contemporary epic poem about Robert the Bruce
• http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/froissart/tales.htm - Tales from Froissart (English and French)
• http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/ARTICLES/sources.htm - an extensive collection of primary sources in translation
• http://charlemagne.celtic-twilight.com/gregory_of_tours/index.htm - substantial extracts from Gregory of Tours’ History of the Franks
• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/DanishHistory/ - Saxo Grammaticus’ Danish History
• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Heimskringla/ - Snorri Sturlason’s Heimskringla, or The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway

Mediaeval European manuscripts with military illustrations

• http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/maciejowski_bible.htm - the Maciejowski Bible
• http://www.tempora-nostra.de/manesse/manesse0-9.shtml - the Manessa Codex