Hungary: From Antiquity to 1526

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Archive of Old Czech and Slovak Documents
(Beginnings to 1526; Czech and Slovak language facsimiles)
Maps and images of transformations as seen through cultural artifacts.
(Includes data on former Roman provinces now found in Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia)
Geographic and thematic approaches available in nine languages.
(Antiquity through 212 AD; maps and facsimile images)
Sources on Pannonia, Region/tribe and Roman province (what is now NW Serbia, W Hungary, Slovakia, etc.). Authors include Ovid, Augustus, Strabo, etc. "People" filter can be removed for wider search results.
Made available by Topos Text
(antiquity; English translation)
Greek traveler Strabo’s encyclopedia on the ancient world as he knew it. Section focusing specifically on Mysia, Dacia, and the Danube
On the "war-hungry" Pannonians
Compiled by Lacus Curtius
(7 BC; English translations)
  • Priscus' Accounts of Attila the Hun
"The Greek writer Priscus actually visited the Huns and conversed with Attila. He received a very different impression of the people from the fearsome pictures given earlier by Ammianus Marcellinus."
Priscus describes the court of Attila king of the Huns
Dining With Attila the Hun
(448; English translation)
Byzantine and Medieval sources in English translation.
(700-1204; English-language transcriptions)
King/Saint Steven's Admonitions to Prince Imre
(early 11th century; modern Hungarian translation)
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)
By Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg, a chronicle including Saxon emperors as well as information of the Slavs east of Elbe River, the Hungarians and the Poles
German version found HERE
(1018; Latin facsimile)
King Steven I's Second Code of Law
(1030-1038; 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)
Downloadable facsimiles
(Middle Ages; Hungarian and English)
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)
Letters, reports and other papers documenting the life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, also known as Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia.
(13th-15th century; German)
Chronicle of the deeds of the Hungarians.
(English translation; 1203)
Expansion of Gesta Hungarorum.
(Hungarian translation; 1282)
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 also developments in church, state and society in Central Europe since the Early Middle Ages.
(14th century; Latin and vernacular facsimiles and transcriptions)
From the DeGreorio Collection of Antiquities in cooperation with ARTSTOR.
(1328-1900; facsimiles)
Charters between the kings of Poland, Bohemia and Hungary. Available in several languages.
3 Sept. 1335
19 Nov. 1335
22 Nov. 1335
26 Nov. 1335
3 Dec. 1335
6 Jan. 1336
(English)
From Magyar Evangelical Digital Library.
15th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
(15th-20th century; Hungarian facsimiles)
Chronicle of the Hungarians - a compilation of historical works including Chronicon Pictum, Buda Chronicle and that of Johannes de Thurocz.
(15th century; Hungarian; facsimiles)
From a searchable database at the Leibniz Institute for European History, University of Mainz.
(1463 - 1706; facsimiles and transcriptions with German and English interfaces)
Digitized books involving Hungary
In cooperation with the Library of Congress
(1488; Latin facsimiles)
From a searchable database at the Leibniz Institute for European History, University of Mainz.
(1491 - 1534; facsimiles and transcriptions with German and English interfaces)
It begins with the Treaty of Neuberg and development of the Albertine and Leopold lines of the Habsburgsand describes the career of Emperor Frederick III. Also included are the events in Carinthia, including the five Turkish invasions between 1473 and 1483, the Hungarian occupation (1480-90) and the associated peasant uprisings and the Kärntner Bauernbund.
Made available by Monumenta Germaniae Historica
(ca 1499; German and Latin facsimile)
  • Four Eyewitness Reports of the Battle of Mohács
Hernach volget des Bluthundts der sich nennet eyn türckischen Kayser Gethaten....
(Hereafter follow the deeds of the bloodhound who calls himself a Turkish Emperor....")
New Zeyttung, wie der turckischen Keyser mit dem König von Ungern dye Schlacht gethan hat auff den Tag Johannis Enthauptung....
("News of how the Turkish Emperor fought the battle with the King of Hungary on the day John the Baptist was beheaded....")
Newe Zeyttung, wie die Schlacht zu Ungern mit dem tücrkischen (sic!) Keyser ergangen: Hat einer vonn Wien so dabey gewest... geschriben.
("News of how the battle for Hungary proceeded with the Turkish Emperor. Written... by someone from Vienna who was there.")
Newe Zeyttung, wie es mit der Schlacht zwüschen dem Künig von Ungern und dem türckischen Keysser ergangen....
("News of how it went with the battle between the King of Hungary and the Turkish Emperor....")
Digital copies from the Hungarian Electronic Library
(28-29 August, 1526; PDF Facsimiles of published pamphlets in German language).

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