Collects in English the passages on Cyprus from Greek, Latin, Arabic and other writers. For the years around 1200 it gives Neophytos the Recluse's letter on the calamities of Cyprus (the Latin conquest of 1191 and what followed), the passages of the Eracles, Ernoul and Arab writers on the Lusignan takeover and Aimery's reign, and the Greek synaxaria. It is the easiest entry into the Cypriot sources, but it is excerpts, sometimes abridged, in translations a century old.
About this source
- Title
- Excerpta Cypria: materials for a history of Cyprus
- Author
- Various, translated by Claude Delaval Cobham
- Author's dates
- Cobham 1842 to 1915
- Written
- texts from antiquity to the 19th century, translated and published 1908
- Language
- English, from Greek, Latin, Arabic, French and other languages
- Covers
- antiquity to the 19th century
- Kind
- Collection of sources
Public domain. Neophytos's works are now edited in full in Greek (Paphos, 1996 to 2005), in copyright; Cobham gives only the letter on the calamities.