The classic collection of Byzantine sources from the Crusades, from the preliminaries of the first Crusade to a list of the loot of Constantinople after it was taken by the Westerners in 1204. Extracts chiefly from Michael Psellus, Michael Attaliates, Anna Comnena, John Cinnamus, and Nicetas Choniates, given in Greek with Latin translations and made into a continuous narrative with Latin linking texts, and other testimonia from Zonaras, Glycas, Nicephorus Gregoras, Ephraem the Chronographer, George Acropolites, and an anonymous poem on the Conquest of Syria; in short, a library in a volume. The seond volume contains textual, critical, and historical notes, unpublished works by Gregoras and Theodore Prodromos, and a hundred pages of indices.