Translations of Primary Sources on the Mongol Empire (with links!)

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Apologies for the formatting, but there's a 5000 character limit for these descriptions and originally this was over 8000, so I had to trim a lot of details to make the links all fit.

MONGOL/YUAN

The Secret History of the Mongols. Translated by Francis Woodman Cleaves http://altaica.ru/SECRET/cleaves_shI.pdf

The Secret History of the Mongols. Translated by Igor de Rachewiltz. http://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent....

The Secret History of the Mongols (Expanded Edition) Translated by Francis Woodman Cleaves/ Paul Kahn. https://books.google.ca/books?id=GKCt...

The Secret History of the Mongols. Translated by Urgunge Onon. . https://jigjids.files.wordpress.com/2....

“Mongol intentions towards Japan in 1266: Evidence from a Mongol letter to the Sung.” http://chinajapan.org/articles/09.2/0...

The Monks of Kublai Khan (Rabban Sawma, Mar Yahbh-Allaha III). http://www.aina.org/books/mokk/mokk.htm

ARABIC

al-Maqrizi (in french) https://archive.org/details/histoired...

Nasawi, History of the Sultan Jelal al-Din Mingburnu. http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/arabe/ne... (In french)

Juzjani. Ṭabaḳāt-i-Nāṣirï:
Vol 1 https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.d...
Vol 2 https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.d...

ARMENIAN

Kirakos Gandzakets'i, History of the Armenians. Translated by Robert Bedrosian. https://archive.org/details/KirakosGa...
http://rbedrosian.com/kgtoc.html

Vardan Arewelt’si, Translated by Bedrosian.
https://archive.org/details/VardanAre...
http://rbedrosian.com/vaint.htm

Grigor Aknerts’i, History of the Nation of Archers. https://archive.org/details/GrigorAkn...

Het’um of Corycus, The Flower of the Histories of the East. http://www.attalus.org/armenian/hetum...

King Hetum II’s Chronicle. Translated by Bedrosian. https://archive.org/details/KingHetum...

“The Journey of Het’um II.” Translated by J.A Boyle. https://archive.org/details/KingHetum...
https://archive.org/stream/Boyle1964H...

Smbat Sparapet. Chronicle of Little Armenia.
http://rbedrosian.com/cssint.htm

Smbat Sparapet. “Letter of Smbat Constable to Henry I of Cyprus, ca.1248.”
http://rbedrosian.com/lsmbat.htm

Step’annos Orbelean. History of the State of Sisakan.
http://rbedrosian.com/SO/sotoc.html

SYRIAC

Bar Hebraeus http://www.syriacstudies.com/AFSS/Syr...

PERSIAN/ILKHANATE

Rashid-al-din. The Successors of Genghis Khan. Translated by J.A Boyle. https://archive.org/details/Boyle1971.... (not the full text of Rashid al-Din)

Juvaini, The History of the World-Conqueror. Translated by Boyle.
vol 1 https://archive.org/details/historyof...
Vol 2 https://archive.org/stream/historyoft...

CHAGATAI TURKIC

Mirza Muhammad Duglught Beg, Tarikh-i-Rashidi. https://archive.org/details/TheTarikh...

EUROPEAN

The Chronicle of Novgorod. http://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/...

Matthew Paris, English History From the Year 1235-1273:
Vol 1. https: //archive.org/stream/matthewparisseng01pari#page/n7/mode/2up
vol 2. https://archive.org/stream/matthewpar...
Vol 3. https://archive.org/stream/matthewpar...
(One volume discusses Mongol invasion of Hungary)

Jean de Joinville, Memoirs.
http://web.archive.org/web/2008101122...

John de Plano Carpini and William of Rubruck (with others)
https://archive.org/stream/textsversi...

Polo, Marco. Translated by Henry Yule.
Vol 1 https://archive.org/details/bookofser....
Vol 2 https://archive.org/details/bookofser....

COLLECTIONS

Bretschneider, Medieval Research on Eastern Asiatic Sources,
vol. I https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ig...
(Yelu Chucai; Wu-ku-sun; Chang-chun; Si shi Ki (Ch’ang te); Ye-lu Hu Liang)
https://play.google.com/books/reader?...


Cathay and the Way Thither. Translated by Henry Yule.
Vol 2 (Odoric of Pordenone.) https://archive.org/stream/cathaywayt....
Vol 3 (John of Montecorvino; Andrew Bishop of Zayton; Jordanus; Pasca of Vittoria; Rashid al-Din on China; Pegolotti; Marignolli)
https://archive.org/details/cathayway....
Vol 4 Ibn Battuta (on China) https://archive.org/details/cathayway....