Annales Laurissenses minores

Annales Laurissenses minores (German: Kleine Lorscher Annalen) or ALM is the Latin name of a medieval, historiographic text from the abbey at Lorsch near Worms in Germany.

In many German texts, they are also called the Kleine Lorscher Frankenchronik ("Short Lorsch Chronicle of the Franks"), but in English may be referred to as the "Short chronicle of Lorsch"[1] or "Lesser Annals of Lorsch".

[2] The chronicle was written in the early 9th century AD by a monk at Lorsch Abbey.

In chronological annual reports he describes events in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century, for example, its transition from Merovingian to Carolingian rule.

From 741 to 788 the reports are partly original, but are based partly on the Annales Laurissenses maiores ("Great Lorsch Annals" or Große Lorscher Annalen).