The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al’Dīn

A modern edition of the so-called Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum has been long awaited by researchers in the history of crusading to the Holy Land. This anonymous chronicle, formerly attributed to Ralph of Coggeshall, was last edited in the nineteenth century. Those editions were not based on all four manuscripts which are currently known, did not contain any manuscript description, and did not have any critical apparatus in the modern sense. None the less, this source is an important text for the history of the Third Crusade and its origins: most of the information it contains cannot be found elsewhere. The textual tradition of the various chronicles of the Third Crusade is complex: Ralph of Coggeshall inserted parts of the Libellus into his chronicle, the text of the Libellus bears parallels with the chronicle of Ernoul, and there are passages in the Libellus which derive from a

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