They cover the years 1165–1295 and, to judge by their focus, were probably written in the archdiocese of Mainz and not in Worms.
[3] In the manuscript, the annals are introduced by a rubric that reads Qvae contigerunt temporibus Frederici primi imperatoris ejusqve sequacium ('what happened in the time of Frederick the first emperor and his successors').
[2] The annalist makes frequent errors of dating, which Pertz corrected in the margins of his edition.
[sic] Tartari de locis suis cum infinita multitudine exeuntes, Hungariam Poloniam Moraviam et terras adiacentes in maxima parte destruxerunt, contra quos principes de Merseburg cruce signantur.
[3] The Tatars, [leaving their places with an infinite multitude, and] against whom the princes at Merseberg are signed with the cross, destroyed the greater part of Hungary, Poland, Moravia and adjacent lands.