The History of the Assassins, Derived from Oriental Sources

by Freiherr von Joseph Hammer-Purgstall

[220] Radevicus Frisingensis, l. II., c. 37. Sigonius Guntherus.

[221] Franciscus Pagus Breviarum hist. chron. crit. ad ann. 1244.

[222] Epistolæ Petri de Vineis, l. III. cap. 5.

[223] A. D. 1194.

[224] Marinus Sanutus, l. III., part X., c. 8.

[225] Elmacini Hist. Saracencia, l. III., p. 286.

[226] Marco Polo, De Regionibus Orientalibus, lib. I. c. 28.

[227] Siret Hakem biemrillah in Mines de l’Orient, Part III., p. 201, Arabic and French.

[228] This appears to be a mistake, as the hashishe is found to consist chiefly of hemp; see notes [D] and [E], at the end of this vol. T.

[229] See the circumstantial proof of this indubitable genealogy, in the Mémoire sur la Dynastie des Assassins, et sur l’Origine de leur Nom; by M. Silvestre de Sacy; read at the Institute, 7th July, 1809. And a letter of M. Silvestre de Sacy to the Editor of the Moniteur, on the Etymology of the name of the Assassins.—Moniteur, No. 359, year 1809. The reader will find both translated, in notes D and E, at the end of the volume.