Message of Abaqa to Pope Gregory X and the Council of Lyons

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• Date	1274 (Tabriz / Lyons)
  Ilkhan	Abaqa
  Addressee	Pope Gregory X and the participants of the Second Council of Lyons
  Type	letter (memorandum)
  Script and language	Latin text only (account given through the interpreter Riccardus)
  Material	manuscript copies
  Kept	Durham, Dean and Chapter Muniments, Loc. I, 60*, fol. 2v; Wien, ÖNB lat. 389, fol. 114v–115r; Paris, BnF lat. 14765, fol. 137v–138r; BAV Vat. lat. 1328, fol. 146r–v
  Discovery and first edition	editions: Borghezio; Roberg (as cited in Lupprian 1981); regest and text in Lupprian 1981, Nr. 44

  Contents

  Through his interpreter Ricardus Abaqa recounts the deeds of his father Hülegü (capture of Baghdad, protection of Christians, the embassy to Pope Urban IV stopped by Manfred), declares he continues that policy and offers peace and alliance with the Catholics against the common enemy.

  Literature (2)

  • Lupprian K.-E. (1981). Die Beziehungen der Päpste zu islamischen und mongolischen Herrschern im 13. Jahrhundert anhand ihres Briefwechsels. Studi e testi, Città del Vaticano PDF · 7.8 MB
  • Aigle D. (2005). The Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü, and Abaqa: Mongol Overtures or Christian Ventriloquism? Inner Asia 7:2 (2005), 143–162, Leiden PDF · 1.9 MB

  Source of the data: Lupprian 1981: 226–230 (Nr. 44); Aigle 2005: 148–152; Meyvaert 1980: 246

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