The manuscripts probably arose at the Premonstratensian monastery of Pöhlde in the Harz region, composed by a monk named Theodore (Theodorus monachus) some time between 1182 and 1197.
[1] In 1877, the original was rediscovered by the German historian Georg Waitz at the Oxford Bodleian Library (Laud Misc.
Only from the year 469 onwards is the text mostly unique, although parts are based on Paul the Deacon.
The last annals concentrate on the history of the German kingdom down to the exile of Duke Henry the Lion in 1182.
The Annales Palidenses are the only source to claim that Roger II of Sicily became a monk shortly before his death.