For this period, the same source text underlies all three of these chronicles this source text was the St David’s chronicle that was in existence no later than 954, when the exemplar of the Harleian chronicle was created, and was continued in St David’s thereafter. In 1848 Henry Petrie edited the sections of the Harleian, Breviate, and Cottonian chronicles that pertained to the years up to 1066. It is clear that the extant text incorporates annals drawn from a number of different sources, some of which were brought together for the first time at Neath in the second half of the thirteenth century. The chronicle begins with a history of the world from its creation and proceeds to the year 1286.
This manuscript also contains a breviate of the Domesday Book, and it was written probably in the Cistercian abbey of Neath in the second half of the thirteenth century. The Breviate chronicle occurs on folios 1r–13r of London, National Archives, MS E.164/1. xiii/xiv) The Breviate Chronicle B-text of the Annales Cambriae
Manuscript: London, National Archives, MS E.
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