The annal entries were originally annotations written in the margins of Paschal tables, a practice that probably dates to the foundation of the monastery in the second half of the eighth century.
[1] The Annales is of interest primarily because its entries are roughly contemporaneous with the events they describe.
It is found in the same manuscript as the monastery's cartulary, a collection of canon law and a list of the princes of Benevento.
It is the only version in which the annals are marginal annotations to a Paschal table, which would have been the form of the original manuscript(s) from which all three surviving redactions are derived.
The succession of princes of Benevento is recorded down to the end the principality around 1050, when the city came under papal rule.