[2] After the Reformation the annals probably went from the last Catholic archbishop Torbern Bille to his brother Klavs Bille, because about 1590 Historiographer Royal Anders Sørensen Vedel owned Alia quaedam chronologica of an old scroll, which Mr. Claus Bilde had, ab anno domini 1027 ad annum domini 1323 (Alia quaedam chronologica aff en gamle rulle, som hr.
Claus Bilde haffde, ab anno domini 1027 ad annum domini 1323),[11] and on another partial copy of the annals,[12] which probably around the same time[13] was hand-written for Huitfeldt, there was noted:[14] ”This I have transcribed and noted off a scroll which belonged to Mr. Claus Bilde” (Dette haffuer ieg udskreffuit oc noteret af en rulle som hørde her Claus Bilde thiill).
[12] The probably for Huitfeldt hand-written partial copy since came to Danzig, from where Dalin took it to Uppsala in the 18th century.
[18] The Bircherodian manuscript from about 1690 does not exist now, but in the 18th century Bircherod and Peder Jensen Lucoppidan each hand-wrote a copy of it.
Based on the Lucoppidan manuscript[19] Ernst Joachim von Westphalen in 1743 published the annals in the third volume of Monumenta ininedita rerum Germanicarum praecipue Cimbricarum et Megapolensium.