History of Hungary: Primary Documents

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History of the Arpád Period
Source website for documents through 1301 listed below.
(1000-1301; mostly modern Hungarian translations)
King Steven I's First Code of Law
(1001; modern Hungarian translation)
Pannonhalma Charter
(1002; modern Hungarian translation)
King Steven I's Second Code of Law
(1030-1038; modern Hungarian translation)
King/Saint Steven's Admonitions to Prince Imre
(early 11th century; modern Hungarian translation)
Hexameters on the Coronation Cloak
(1031; parallel Latin & modern Hungarian translation)
About the Cruelty of King Peter
Excerpt from the Chronicon Pictum (1358)
(1038-1041; modern Hungarian translation)
The Meeting in Várkony
Excerpt from the Chronicon Pictum (1358)
(ca. 1040 - 1050; modern Hungarian translation)
The Battle of Kerlés
Excerpt from the Chronicon Pictum (1358)
(ca. 1040-1050; modern Hungarian translation)
Deed of Foundation of Tihany
(1055; modern Hungarian translation)
Pope Gregory VII's Letters to King Salomon
(1074-1075; modern Hungarian translations)
László I's Code of Law
(1077-1092; modern Hungarian translations)
King Kálmán's so-called First Code of Law
(ca. 1100; modern Hungarian translation)
The Census of Dömös
(3 September 1138; modern Hungarian translation)
Report on the Death of a Hungarian Student Studying in Paris
(Between 1177 and 1192; modern Hungarian translation)
Eulogy and Prayer
The oldest source document in Hungarian for its length
(1192-1195; medieval Hungarian & modern Hungarian translations)
Letter of King Imre to Pope Innocent III
(At the end of 1199; modern Hungarian translation)
Letter of King Andrew II to Pope Innocent III
(At the end of 1214; modern Hungarian translation)
The Golden Bull of King Andrew II
Hungary's "Magna Carta"
(1222; modern Hungarian translation)
Available as an English translation with minor exclusions - see pages 129-130.
(1222; English translation)
Revised text of the Golden Bull
(1231; modern Hungarian translation)
The Agreement of Bereg
(1233; modern Hungarian translation)
Reports of Friar Julianus, plus a letter on "How the Tartars Live."
(Early 13th century; modern Hungarian translations)
Letter of Hungarian King Bela IV to King Konrad IV of Germany
(1241; modern Hungarian translation)
Hungarian Letter to the Pope
(2 February 1242; modern Hungarian translation)
King Béla IV and Sons' Code of Law
(1267; modern Hungarian translation)
King Steven V's Manumission for the 'Hospes' of Györ
(1271; modern Hungarian translation)
King László IV's First Code of Law
(23 June 1279; modern Hungarian translation)
The Battle of Morvamezö
An excerpt from A magyarok viselt dolgai (A History of the Hungarians)
(ca. 1283; modern Hungarian translation)
King Andrew III's Code of Law
(1290-1291 & 1298; modern Hungarian translations)
Virtual Document Archive of Central European Cloisters and Bishoprics - Hungary
Documenting not only the history of the cloisters themselves,
but developments in church, state and society in Central Europe since the Early Middle Ages.
(14th century; Latin and vernacular facsimiles and transcriptions).
Peace Treaty ending the Thirty Years War.
(24 October 1648, English translation)
From the National Széchényi Library, digitized for Europeana, an online library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
(18th- 21st century; facsimiles)
From the Avalon Project
(1829 - 1909; English translations and transcriptions)
(1849-present; translations and transcriptions)
This document is reprinted from Seton-Watson, R.W. The Southern Slav Question and the Habsburg Monarchy.
London: Constable and Co., 1911. The translation is by Seton-Watson.
The source is H-Net.
(1868; English translation)
Searchable book-length travel reports digitized at the University of Michigan.
(19th-20th century; hundreds of facsimiles in many languages)
Austro-Hungarian Documents on the Outbreak of War.
(1 July 1914 - 27 August 1914; German with occasional French and English transcriptions)
Diplomatic Documents leading to World War I.
Section I, Nos 1-19, Appendices 1 and 2.
(1914; English translations)
(pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions)
Major Resource
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
(1914-1919; translations)
Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
(1918-1941; translations)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
An archive of images and documents from the French perspective of World War II.
Requires video software for the clips.
(1940-1944; videos, photo images and transcriptions)
A collection of documents related to WWII.
From the Avalon Project.
Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
(1938-1945; translations)
Including treaties affecting the Hungarian border from the Treaty of Trianon to the Moscow Agreement.
Published by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State
(1920-1945; facsimiles)
Also contains commentaries and annotations.
A part of Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár -- Hungarian Electronic Library.
(Translations and Hungarian transcriptions, some ftp-able)
Hungarian history presented thematically -- mostly secondary articles, but with some source documents.
(English translations)
Found on the National Security Archive
Declassified documents regarding Europe provided by the National Security Agency.
Declassified CIA documents from Cold War Era Hard Target Analysis.
(28 January 1957; PDF facsimiles)
1949, as updated to the present.
(Hungarian transcription).
1949, as updated to 1997.
(English and German translations).
Includes laws and resolutions from 1990 to the present.
(Hungarian transcriptions).
Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.
(Translations and transcriptions)
A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities
(Facsimiles).
Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
(Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
Digitization projects in Hungary (and Eastern Europe), listed by Klaus Graf.
(Scroll down to "Ungarn")
(Facsimiles).
(Facsimiles).

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