The Anales castellanos segundos are a set of Latin

Medieval Latin

Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but also as a language of science, literature, law, and administration. Despite the clerical origin of many of its authors,...

 annals

Annals

Annals are a concise form of historical representation which record events chronologically, year by year. The Oxford English Dictionary defines annals as "a narrative of events written year by year"...

 compiled in the mid or late twelfth century in Castile

Kingdom of Castile

Kingdom of Castile was one of the medieval kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. It emerged as a political autonomous entity in the 9th century. It was called County of Castile and was held in vassalage from the Kingdom of León. Its name comes from the host of castles constructed in the region...

, covering the period from the nativity of Jesus

Nativity of Jesus

The Nativity of Jesus, or simply The Nativity, refers to the accounts of the birth of Jesus in two of the Canonical gospels and in various apocryphal texts....

 to the death of Queen Urraca in 1126 (in the edition of Flórez

Enrique Florez

Enrique Flórez de Setién y Huidobro was a Spanish historian.Florez was born in Valladolid. At 15 years old, he entered the order of St Augustine. He subsequently became professor of theology at the University of Alcala, where he published a Cursus theologiae in five volumes...

) or to 1110 (in the edition of Gómez-Moreno). It is preserved in a thirteenth-century manuscript now known as Vossiani Latin O.91 and kept in the Universiteitsbibliotheek at Leiden. This manuscript was kept at the University of Alcalá de Henares (ancient Complutum) until at least the sixteenth century and thus the annals were known as the Annales Complutenses.

Editions

• In Enrique Flórez
  Enrique Florez
  Enrique Flórez de Setién y Huidobro was a Spanish historian.Florez was born in Valladolid. At 15 years old, he entered the order of St Augustine. He subsequently became professor of theology at the University of Alcala, where he published a Cursus theologiae in five volumes...
  
  , ed. España Sagrada, XXIII (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.