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The '''Winchcombe Annals''', sometimes known as the '''Later Winchcombe Annals''', are a Latin [[chronicle]] compiled {{circa|1240}} by an [[Anonymous work|anonymous]] [[monk]] at the [[Benedictine]] abbey, [[Winchcombe Abbey]].<ref>Hayward, Paul Antony, “[http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-the-medieval-chronicle/later-winchcombe-annals-SIM_000971?s.num=23&s.rows=50&s.start=20  Later Winchcombe Annals]”, in: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, Edited by: Graeme Dunphy, Cristian Bratu.</ref>

The manuscript is damaged and only the portion from  1049 to 1232 remain although it was a longer document. The source material up to 1181 is from the ''[[Winchcombe Chronicle]]'' and from thereon from another annal. The manuscript also holds pictorial representation of a [[sun dial]],<ref>Jaś Elsner, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZCgxDwAAQBAJ&dq=Winchcombe+Chronicle&pg=PT137 Comparativism in Art History] (Routledge, 2017).</ref> and the twelve winds of [[Aristotle]].<ref>[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/illmanus/cottmanucoll/t/011cottibe00004u00030000.html  The Twelve Winds, In 'The Winchcombe Chronicle'], The [[British Library]] 26 March 2009.</ref>

It is currently in the [[British Library]] at [[Cotton library|Cotton MS Faustina]] B I, fol. 12<!--v?-->r–29v.

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