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The journal provides access to commented excerpts of primary sources in their original language and in translation that cover transmediterranean themes in the period 600-1650. https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/index.php/tmh/index

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Nov 19

1/7: “Transmediterranean History” is a commented anthology of primary sources that aims at facilitating access to transmediterranean themes and their documentation roughly in the period between 600 and 1650. The anthology is published as a trilingual open access journal in German, English, Arabic.

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 3d

AotW: Daniel G. König, 903–906: The Raffelstetten Customs Regulation and the Export of Slavic Slaves to the Islamic Sphere, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Iron restraints 11th/12th cent., Neu Nieköhr, Zdenek Vana, przedmowa Jerzy Gąssowski - Świat dawnych Słowian, 1985, Artia, PA Interpress

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 9d

AotW: Eric Böhme, 1244: King James I of Aragón Reports on the Capitulation of Xàtiva, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Xàtiva drawn by Anton van den Wijngaerde in 1563, today Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. Min 41, fol. 70r

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 17d

AotW: Bogdan C. Smarandache, 1293: An Aragonese–Mamlūk Agreement from al-Qalqašandī’s Ṣubḥ al-aʿšā, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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James II of Aragon (r. 1291–1327), Usatici et Constitutiones Cataloniae, Paris, BNF, Latin 4670 A (c. 1315–1325)

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 24d

AotW: Eric Böhme, 1174: A Letter of Condolence from Saladin to Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Saladin "rex Aegypti" styled as a knight, 15th century manuscript

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Sep 8

AotW: Eva Salmonat, 1095–1104: King Coloman of Hungary’s Legislation against Islam, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Coloman’s Coronation in 1095, as imagined in the fourteenth-century Hungarian Chronicon Pictum, fol. 101 (today National Széchényi Library, Budapest).

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Aug 25

AotW: Mohamed Qassiti, 1010‒1028: First Reference to an Astrolabe in Lorraine by Radulf of Liège, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Planispheric astrolabe, North Africa, 9th cent., today part of the Khalili Collections

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Aug 18

AotW: Daniel G. König, 942–956: Ibn Ḥayyān on Hungarian Raids and the Battle of Lechfeld, in: TMH 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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The Battle of Lechfeld in the Sächsische Weltchronik, c. 1270, Gotha, Forschungs- und Landesbibliothek, Ms. Memb. I 90, fol. 87v.

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Aug 3

AotW: Dominic Scheim, 1597: Bernardo de Brito Writes Down the Legend of the Abducted Moor Fatima, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Oil painting of Frei Bernardo de Brito, c. 1600–1650, today Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Colecção de Pintura, URL: https://purl.pt/22984.

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Jul 28

AotW: Dominic Scheim, 1498: The Roteiro on the Confrontation of Vasco da Gama with Muslim Merchants in Calicut, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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First page of the "Roteiro da Viagem de Vasco da Gama à Índia," Casa do Infante, Porto.

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Jul 21

AotW: Daniel G. König, 1412: al-Qalqašandī Historicises the Crusades, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Copy of al-Qalqashandī’s Ṣubḥ al-aʿshā, AH 1193, private library, Southern Lebanon

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Jul 15

AotW: James Wilson, 1116–1126: Ibn al-ʿAdīm on Christian–Muslim Crop Sharing (munāṣafa) Treaties, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Front page of a Ms of Ibn al-ʿAdīm’s Zubdat al-ḥalab min taʾrīḫ Ḥalab, with a note by Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838), Paris, BNF 1666

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Jul 6

AotW: Daniel G. König, 906: Bertha of Tuscany’s Correspondence with al-Muktafī bi-llāh in the Version of Ibn al-Zubayr, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Gold dinar of al-Muktafi, Baghdad, 292 AH / 904–905 CE

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 30

AotW: Lukas Müller, 629–641: The So-called Chronicle of Fredegar Explains the Intrusion of the "Saracens" into the Eastern Roman Empire, in: TMH 5.1 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Pen drawing from the earliest manuscript of the Chronicle of Fredegar, probably depicting Eusebius and Jerome, 715 AD, BNF Ms Latin 10910, fol. 23v

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 23

AotW: Alejandro Peláez Martín, 1489: The Mamlūk Sultan of Egypt Threatens the Catholic Monarchs, in: Transmediterranean History 5.2 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, anonymous painting of the 15th century

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 16

AotW: 1254: Treaty between the Mamlūk Sultan al-Malik al-Muʿizz and the Venetians, in: Transmediterranean History 5.2 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 9

AotW: 1143–1147: Otto of Freising Identifies Baghdad and Cairo with Old and New Babylon, in: Transmediterranean History 5.2 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Otto of Freising, stained glass window in the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz, Austria (13th century)

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 1

AotW: Hossameldin Ali, Before 1044: ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ṣiqillī on the Purchase of Christian and Muslim Females in Sicily, in: Transmediterranean History 5.2 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Modern edition of ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ṣiqillī, Tahḏīb al-ṭālib wa-fāʾidat al-rāġib.

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · May 26

AotW: Victoria Hayn / Eric Böhme, 982: Thietmar of Merseburg on the Battle at Capo Colonna, in: Transmediterranean History 5.2 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Otto II, Trier, after 983, today Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 14 bis

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · May 19

AotW: Alejandro Peláez Martín, 962: Al-Maqqarī on the Oath of Allegiance Given by the Rulers of León to al-Ḥakam II al-Mustanṣir, in: Transmediterranean History 5.2 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Salón Rico, Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ near Cordoba. The construction of the palace complex was completed under al-Ḥakam II.

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · May 12

AotW: Alejandro Peláez Martín, 1412: al-Qalqašandī Describes the Iberian Christian Realms of his Time, in: Transmediterranean History 6.1 (2024), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Apr 28

AotW: Kate Tinson, 1321: Sancho I of Mallorca Writes to James II of Aragon about the “Lepers’ Plot”, in: Transmediterranean History 6.1 (2024), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Detail of Sancho I’s effigy in the Cathedral of Perpignan, modern sculpture by Frederic Marès (1947)

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Apr 21

AotW: Kate Tinson, 1263: Nachmanides on the Disputation of Barcelona in his 'Sefer Vikuaḥ', in: Transmediterranean History 6.1 (2024), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Saló del Tinell, Palau Reial Major, Barcelona, where the disputation took place in 1263

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Apr 14

AotW: Eric Böhme, 1190: A Letter from al-Mahdiyya Reports on a Muslim Uprising on Sicily, in: Transmediterranean History 6.1 (2024), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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Detail of al-Idrīsī's world map (Sicily, 1154), copy by ʿAlī b. Ḥasan al-Hūfī al-Qāsimī, Cairo 1456, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mss. Pococke 375, fol. 3v–4

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Apr 7

AotW: Daniel G. König, 1185–1207: The Story of the Man from Upper Egypt and His Frankish Wife, in: Transmediterranean History 6.1 (2024), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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So-called Galland manuscript, the oldest Ms of „Alf layla wa-layla“, 14th century Syria, today Paris, BNF, MSS arabes 3609, 3610, 3611.

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Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · Apr 1

AotW: James Wilson, 1177: Ibn al-ʿAdīm on a Zengid Commander of “Frankish” Origin, in: Transmediterranean History 6.1 (2024), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

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