The principal subject of the Gesta is the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries, and it writes of the origin of the Hungarians, identifying the Hungarians' ancestors with the ancient Scythians. It is part of the collection of Széchényi National Library in Budapest. The Gesta exists in a sole manuscript from the second part of the 13th century, which was for centuries held in Vienna. According to most historians, the work was completed between around 12. It was written by an unidentified author who has traditionally been called Anonymus in scholarly works. Its genre is not chronicle, but gesta, meaning "deeds" or "acts", which is a medieval entertaining literature. Gesta Hungarorum, or The Deeds of the Hungarians, is the first extant Hungarian book about history. First page of the manuscript written in Medieval Latin
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