La Flor des Estoires d’Orient by Hayton of Corycus [also: Hetoum, Haiton, Haitho, Hayton etc.] (m. after 1307) consists of four books: a geographic description of Asia, an outline of the history of Asia, a history of the Mongols and a plan for a crusade. The original version was a French version, which was translated into Latin and retranslated into French. The editio princeps was published in 1510 in Paris.
The most important edition of the French original remains the one by Charles Kohler from 1906:
Charles Kohler (ed.): „Hayton, La flor des estoires de la terre d’Orient“. In: Recueil des historiens des croisades. Documents arméniens. Tome second. Publ. par les soins de l’Académie royale des inscriptions et des belles-lettres (Paris: Imprimerie nationale 1906)
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> gallica (limited quality, obviously from microfilm)
> Internet Archive (limited quality, obviously from microfilm) - Bibliographic reference: BS 2004
Manuscripts:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, NAF 886: HAYTON, Fleur des histoires de la terre d’Orient. [14th c.]
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- Note: This is Kohler’s „Ms. B“
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Français 12201: Hayton , Fleur des estoires de la terre d’Orient ; Provinciale Romanae Ecclesiae ; Jean IV, archevêque de Sultanieh, Ordonnances de Timur Bey (Tamerlan) [early 15th c.]
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Latin:
Het’owm <Patmič‘>/Menrad Molther (ed.): Liber historiarvm partivm orientis, sive passagium terrae sanctae. Haythono, Ordinis Praemonstratensis, Authore, scriptus anno Redemptoris nostri M.CCC. (Haganoae [Hagenau]: Setzer 1529)
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> Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10159908-7)
> Google Books (Original from Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, digitized 12 June 2012)
> Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Bibliographic reference: VD16 H 870, BS 2002
- Entry in Wiener Chinabibliographie
[Het’owm:] Historia Orientalis Haythoni Armenii. Et Hvic Svbiectvm Marci Pavli Veneti Itinerarium item Fragmentum è Speculo historiali Vincentij Beluacensis eiusdem argumenti (Helmaestadii: Lucius 1585)
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> Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11064770-6 )
> Google Books (Original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Staatliche Bibliothek Regensburg), digitized 3 April 2013) - Bibliographic reference: BS 2003