{{italictitle The ''Anales castellanos primeros'' ("First Castilian Annals"), formerly called the ''Cronicón de San Isidoro'' (or ''Isidro'') ''de León'' (''Chronicon sancti Isidori Legionensis anonymum'') after the

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in León where they were found on the first folio of a manuscript (now Madrid, BN, mss. V. 4, I), are a set of fragmentary

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, principally genealogical in scope, that cover the years 618 to 939 and were written shortly after this last date by an anonymous compiler. The dating is based on a reference to

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(931–51) as "our king" when his confrontation with the

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is recorded.

Editions

*In R. P. J. Tailhan, ed. 1885. ''Anonyme de Cordoue: Chronique rimée des derniers rois de Tolède et de la conquête d'Espagne par les Arabes'' (Paris: E. Leroux), 196. *In Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez, ed. 1917. "Anales castellanos", ''Discursos leídos ante la Real Academia de la Historia'' (Madrid), 23–24. Available online at th
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References

*Gonzalo Martínez Díez. ''El condado de Castilla, 711–1038: La historia frente a la leyenda'' (Marcial Pons Historia, 2005), 755. 10th-century Latin books