Arzelà-Ascoli for manifolds

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On the German Wikipedia one can read the following about the Arzelà-Ascoli theorem:

The theorem of Arzelà-Ascoli can be generalised to families of equicontinuous maps with values in a compact manifold.

Unfortunately, no reference is given. Does anybody has a reference for this statement?

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Every compact Riemannian manifold carries a Riemannian metric. Given such a metric, you can embed it isometrically into $\mathbb{R}^N$ for sufficiently large $N$ by Nash's embedding theorem and apply Arzelà-Ascoli to each of the component functions. Of course, this is a huge overkill.

General versions of the Arzelà-Ascoli theorem that cover the case you mention can be found in most introductory books on general topology, see e.g. Theorem 8.2.10 in Engelking, General Topology.