Primary Sources: China: Mongolian Empire

Concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East. Newly tr. and ed., with notes, maps, and other illustrations. By Henry Yule.

Part 1. Years 491-541/1097-1146
Part 2. Years 541-589/1146-1193
Part 3. Years 589-629/1193-1231
Translated from the Arabic

Accounts written between 424 B.C. and the fifteenth century describe the battles waged by conquering nations and the invaders' customs.

"Thematic chapters, biographical sketches, a glossary, maps, illustrations, and selected primary documents provide fresh insight on a regretfully underexamined period."

1253-55, as narrated by himself, with two accounts of the earlier journey of John of Pian de Carpine. Tr. from the Latin and ed., with an introductory notice, by William Woodville Rockhill ...

His Journey to the court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253-1255
Translated by Peter Jackson ; introduction, notes and appendices by Peter Jackson with David Morgan.

See volume 2 for primary documents.

A Norton Documents Reader

A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century
Translated with a historical and philosophical commentary by Igor de Rachewiltz.

Translated and edited by William Marsden ;re-edited by Thomas Wright ;introduction by John Masefield.

from valuable early manuscripts recently published by the French society of geography and in Italy by Count Baldelli Boni; with copious notes illustrating the routes and observations of the author, and comparing them with those of more recent travellers, by Hugh Murray.