The main narrative source for Dai Viet in 1200, compiled in 1479 from Le Van Huu's lost history of 1272. Its Basic Annals, book 4, cover Ly Cao Tong (reigning 1175 to 1210): the entries for 1198, 1199 and 1200 record risings in the provinces, floods and famine, the king's building and his neglect of government under the regents, and the court's dealings with the Song and with Champa, including the Cham prince who sought refuge in 1203. It is a Confucian court history, moralising and schematic, and the Ly entries are thin, but for 1200 it is the only year-by-year record. The annals are read with the Viet su luoc, which is earlier and sometimes fuller for the Ly.
About this source
- Title
- Dai Viet su ky toan thu
- Author
- Ngo Si Lien, drawing on Le Van Huu's Dai Viet su ky (1272) and Phan Phu Tien; continued by Pham Cong Tru and Le Hi
- Author's dates
- Ngo Si Lien active 1470s
- Written
- 1479; printed 1697 in the standard Chinh Hoa edition
- Language
- Classical Chinese
- Covers
- legendary times to 1675; the Ly dynasty section covers 1009 to 1225
- Kind
- Annals
No English translation of the Ly section exists. Dates are in the Vietnamese and Song reign eras and the sexagenary cycle; the entry for 1201 is missing in the Wikisource text as in the printed edition.
Where to read it
Editions
- Dai Viet su ky toan thu, Chinese text (Chinh Hoa edition), Chinese Wikisource, index page
- Basic Annals book 4 (Ly Anh Tong, Cao Tong, Hue Tong, Chieu Hoang), Chinese text with the entries for 1198 to 1202
Translations
- Vietnamese translation by the Institute of History (Hanoi, 1967 to 1968; revised 1993), in copyright; a Vietnamese Wikisource text exists but could not be verified in this task (not freely online)