The ''Anales castellanos segundos'' are a set of

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compiled in the mid or late twelfth century in Castile, covering the period from the

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to the death of

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in 1126 (in the edition of Flórez) or to 1110 (in the edition of Gómez-Moreno). It is preserved in a thirteenth-century manuscript now in the Leiden Universiteitsbibliotheek,

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VLO 91. This manuscript was kept at the

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(ancient ''Complutum'') until at least the sixteenth century and thus the annals were known as the ''Annales Complutenses''.

Editions

*In

Enrique Flórez Enrique or Henrique Flórez de Setién y Huidobro (July 21, 1702August 20, 1773) was a Spanish historian. Biography Flórez was born in Villadiego. At 15 years old, he entered the order of St Augustine. He subsequently became professor of theol ...

, ed. ''España Sagrada''
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(Madrid: 1767), 310–14. *In Ambrosio Huici y Miranda, ed. and trans. ''Las crónicas latinas de la Reconquista'', I (Valencia: 1913). *In Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez. ''Anales castellanos segundos'' (Madrid: 1917), 25–28.

References

*Gonzalo Martínez Díez. ''El condado de Castilla, 711–1038: La historia frente a la leyenda'' (Marcial Pons Historia, 2005), 755. 12th-century Latin books {{latin-stub