Histoire secrète des Mongols

by Louis Ligeti

$60 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1971. 8vo, pp. 268; printed from typescript; fine copy in the dust jacket. Text in French and Mongolian. Issued as no. 1 in the publisher's Monumenta Linguae Mongolicae Collecta series. The Secret History was written for the family of the Great Mongol Khans, in three versions. First, one that dates from shortly after the death of Genghis Khan, in 1228; then a second in 1240; and then a third in 1252. Only the last of these versions

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