List of Hungarian chronicles
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This is a list of Hungarian chronicles and related gestas and legends which treat early and medieval Hungarian history. The original source of all extant Hungarian chronicles was the lost Gesta Ungarorum, which was written in the 11th century.
The 14th-century Hungarian chronicle composition, which itself was produced by the compilation of several older gestas and chronicles made at different times,{{Cite book |last=András |first=Hess |title=Chronica Hungarorum 1473 |last2=Horváth |first2=János |last3=Soltész |first3=Zoltánné |publisher=Magyar Helikon |location=Budapest |publication-date=1973 |language=Hungarian}}{{Cite book |url=https://chronica.oszk.hu |title=Chronica Hungarorum 1473 (Fakszimile kiadás és kísérőkötet) |publisher=Országos Széchényi Könyvtár (National Széchény Library) |year=2023 |isbn=978-963-200-723-6 |editor-last=Farkas |editor-first=Gábor Farkas |location=Budapest |language=Latin, Hungarian |trans-title=Chronica Hungarorum 1473 (Facsimile edition and accompanying volume) |editor-last2=Varga |editor-first2=Bernadett}} It narrates history from biblical times.{{emc1|Spychała, Lesław|Chronicon Budense [Chronica Hungarorum]|313-314}}
The manuscripts were compared to the Buda Chronicle and the Illuminated Chronicle from the perspective of the kinship of texts; thus, a group of other Hungarian chronicles were named after the Buda Chronicle: the so-called Buda Chronicle family. And another group of other Hungarian chronicles were named after the Illuminated Chronicle: the so-called Illuminated Chronicle family, which preserved more extensive passages of text with several interpolations. The 14th-century Acephalus Codex, the 15th-century Sambucus Codex, the Vatican Codex, and the aforementioned Dubnic Chronicle made in 1479 belong to the Buda Chronicle family.{{Cite journal |last=Domanovszky |first=Sándor |date=1902 |title=A Budai krónika |trans-title=The Buda Chronicle |url=http://misc.bibl.u-szeged.hu/24721/1/012_001_001-063.pdf |journal=Századok |language=Hungarian |location=Budapest |publisher=Athenaeum |volume= |issue=}}
List of Hungarian chronicles
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| 11th century
| | | |The earliest Hungarian chronicle, its text was expanded and rewritten several times in the 12th–14th centuries. |
| 1080
| |Greater Legend of Saint Stephen | | | |
| 1083
| |Lesser Legend of Saint Stephen | | | |
| 11th century
| |Life of King Stephen of Hungary by Hartvik | | |
| 1100s
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| 1200s
| Gesta Hungarorum |Latin |The principal subject of the chronicle is the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin at the end of the 9th century, and it writes of the origin of the Hungarians, identifying the Hungarians' ancestors with the ancient Scythians and Huns. |
| 1203
| |Annales Posonienses | | | |
| 1220s–1230s
| original title Cronica Ungarorum juncta et mixta cum cronicis Polonorum, et vita sancti Stephani Latin for "Chronicle of the Hungarians Attached to and Mixed with Chronicles of the Poles, and the Life of Saint Stephen" | |Latin | |
| Around 1243–1244
|File:Thuróczy krónika - A tatárjárás.jpg original title Carmen miserabile super destructione regni Hungariae per Tartaros Latin for "Sad Song for the Destruction of the Kingdom of Hungary by the Tartars" |Latin |It was preserved in an appendix of the 15th-century Thuróczy Chronicle. |
| Around 1271
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| Around 1282–1285
|File:Kézai Simon krónikájának első lapja - Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum.jpg |Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum |Latin | |
| 1333–1334
| | |Latin | |
| 14th century
| |14th-century Hungarian chronicle composition | | | |
| 1330
|File:Szent László legenda 2.jpg | |Latin |The medieval legendarium of more than 140 pages contains images and scenes of the life of Jesus, Hungarian bishop Saint Gerard, Prince Saint Emeric of Hungary, King Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary, and of many other legendary Christians. |
| 1334
| |Zágráb Chronicle | | | |
| 1352–1353
| |Mügeln Chronicle |Heinrich von Mügeln |German | |
| 1358
|File:Képes krónika első lapja.jpg |Chronicon Pictum |Latin |The 147 pictures of the chronicle represent a large source of information on medieval Hungarian history. |
| 1361
| |Chronicon Rithmicum |Heinrich von Mügeln | | |
| 1374
| |Várad Chronicle | | | |
| 14th century
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| 14th century
| |Acephalus Codex | |Latin | |
| 14th century
| |Latin | |
| 14th century
| | |Latin | |
| 14th century
| |Munich Chronicle | | | |
| 14th century
| |Kaprina Codex | | | |
| 1431
| |Csepreg Codex | | | |
| 15th century
| |Sambucus Codex | |Latin | |
| 1460
| |Drági compendium | | | |
| 1462
| |Teleki Codex | | | |
| 1473
|File:Budai krónika facsimile (Chronica Hungarorum) - Kolofon.jpg original title Chronica Hungarorum Latin for "Chronicle of the Hungarians" |Latin |The first book ever printed in Hungary. This book is the first example, that the printing history of a country begin with the publication of the history of a people. |
| 1479
original title Chronica de gestis Hungarorum Latin for "Chronicle of the Deeds of the Hungarians" (Buda Chronicle family) | | | |
| 15th century
| |Knauz Chronicle | | | |
| 15th century
| |Szepesszombat Chronicle | | | |
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| 15th century
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| 15th century
|Béldi Codex | | | |
| 1488
|File:Thuróczy krónika - Első két lap.jpg original title Chronica Hungarorum Latin for "Chronicle of the Hungarians" (Illuminated Chronicle family) |Latin |The chronicle describes the history of Hungarians from the earliest times to 1487. The chronicle contains hand-colored woodcuts depicting 41 Hungarian kings and leaders. The Augsburg edition of the chronicle is the first known print made with gold paint. |
| 1490
|File:Epitome rerum Hungaricarum - 1.jpg |Epitome rerum Hungarorum |Latin |The chronicle is the first Hungarian historical work with a humanist spirit. |
| 1497
|File:Rerum Ungaricarum Decades.jpg |Rerum Hungaricarum decades |Latin |Up until the end of the 18th century, this work served as primary source for Hungarian history in the European academic thought. |
| 1510
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| 1527
| | |The codex is the largest collection of Hungarian legends, and greatest volume of Hungarian language in history. |
| 1534
|File:Der Hungern Chronica.jpg |Der Hungern Chronica original title Der Hungern Chronica, inhaltend wie sie anfengklich ins Land kommen sind, mit Anzeygung aller irer König, vnd was sie namhafftigs gethon haben. Angefangen von irem ersten König Athila, vn[d] volfüret biss auff König Ludwig, so im 1526. Jar bey Mohatz vom Türcken vmbekommen ist Old German for "The Chronicle of the Hungarians, Which Includes the History of Their Conquest, Presents All Their Kings and What Remarkable Things They Accomplished. From Their First King, Attila, to King Louis, Who Met His Death at Mohács in 1526 by the Turks" |Hans Hauge zum Freistein |German | |
| 1543/1566
|File:The History of the Hungarians.jpg Ottoman Turkish for "The History of the Hungarians" |Ottoman Turkish |Mahmud Tercüman translated it from a Hungarian chronicle found after the Siege of Székesfehérvár in 1543. |
| 1559
| original title Chronica ez vilagnak jeles dolgairol Hungarian for "Chronicle About the Famous Events of the World" |István Székely |Hungarian | |
| 1575
original title Chronica az magyaroknac dolgairol: mint iöttek ki a nagy Scythiábol Pannoniaban, Es mint foglaltac magoknac az orſzagot: Es mint birtác aßt Herczegröl Herczegre: Es Kiralyrol Kiralyra, nagy ſok tuſakodaſockal es ſzamtalan ſoc viadallyockal Old Hungarian for "Chronicle About the Deeds of the Hungarians: How They Came Out From Scythia to Pannonia, and How They Conquered the Country for Themselves: And How They Ruled It From for Prince to Prince, and From King to King, With Many Great Battles and Numerous Fights" |Hungarian | |
| 1664
original title Mausoleum potentissimorum ac gloriosissimorum Regni Apostolici Regum et primorum militantis Ungariae Ducum Latin for "The Mausoleum of the Most Powerful and Glorious Apostolic Kingdom and the Kings and Military Leaders of Hungary" |Count Ferenc Nádasdy |Latin, German |The chronicle contains 60 full-page images of Hungarian kings and leaders. |
| 1740
| Ottoman Turkish for "Hungarian History" | |Ottoman Turkish | |
