[220] In fact Elias of Nisibis, the contemporary chronicler of the conversion of the Jacobite Patriarch, makes no mention of such a failing, nor does Mārī b. Sulaymān (pp. 115–16), the historian of the rival Nestorian Church, though he accuses him of plundering the sacred vessels and ornaments of the churches. As Wright (Syriac Literature, p. 192) says of Joseph of Merv, “We need not believe all the evil that Barhebræus tells us of this unhappy man.” [221] Barhebræus (1), vol. ii. p. 518. [222] Id. vol. ii. p. 712 sq. [223] Historia Orientalis, C. 15 (p. 45). [224] De Guignes, tome ii. (Seconde Partie), p. 15. [225] Odo de Diogilo. (De Ludovici vii. Itinere. Migne, Patr. Lat., tom. cxcv. p. 1243.) “Vitantes igitur sibi crudeles socios fidei, inter infideles sibi compatientes ibant securi, et sicut audivimus plusquam tria millia iuvenum sunt illis recedentibus sociati. O pietas omni proditione crudelior! Dantes panem fidem tollebant, quamvis certum sit quia, contenti servitio, neminem negare cogebant.” [226] Guizot: Histoire de la civilisation en Europe, p. 234. (Paris, 1882.) [227] Usāma b. Munqidh, p. 99. [228] Prutz, pp. 266–7. [229] Assises de la Cour des Bourgeois. (Recueil des historiens des Croisades, Assises de Jérusalem, tome ii. p. 325.) [230] Bahā al-Dīn, p. 25. [231] Roger Hoveden, vol. ii. p. 307. [232] Benedict of Peterborough, vol. ii. pp. 11–12. [233] Id., vol. ii. pp. 20–1. Roger Hoveden, vol. ii. pp. 316, 322. [234] Abū Shāmah, p. 150. [235] Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Richardi, p. 131. (Chronicles and Memorials of the reign of Richard I. Edited by William Stubbs.) (London, 1864.) [236] Joinville, p. 238. [237] Id. p. 262. [238] Mas Latrie (1), vol. ii. p. 72. [239] Ludolf de Suchem, p. 71. [240] Lionardo Frescobaldi, quoted in the preface of Defrémery and Sanguinetti’s edition of Ibn Baṭūṭah, vol. i. p. xl. [241] Christophori Füreri ab Haimendorf Itinerarium Ægypti, p. 42. (Norimbergæ, 1620.) [242] Le Voyage en Ethiopie entrepris par le Père Aymard Guérin. (Rabbath, pp. 17–18.)