# The Recueil des historiens des croisades publishes oriental historians as a public corpus

Date: 1872

## The fact

In the nineteenth-century Recueil des historiens des croisades, the Académie printed Arabic crusade historians (including materials on [Saladin](/people/saladin)) as a public scholarly corpus, later digitised by Gallica. Saladin did not sit in the Institut.

## Context

A printed recueil is how Latin-reading Europe got Arabic voices in parallel columns. Orientalist framing is real. Access is also real.

Saladin is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official heritage, encyclopedia, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Recueil des historiens des croisades — oriental historians (Gallica) (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6216045j; Bibliothèque nationale de France / Académie des Inscriptions).

## Significance

A Paris folio is not a Damascus diary. Keep the date on the recueil.

A Paris folio is not a Damascus diary. Keep the date on the recueil.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Saladin: https://factrail.ai/people/saladin

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.soas.ac.uk/
- https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6216045j

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-gallica-rhc-oriental