Sources
It is a "historical compilation" or a "historical collection" rather than a chronicle or anything else. Antonia Gransden and David Rollason list its sources as follows:
| folios | pages | Description | |
| 1. | 51v-54v | 3-13 | The Kentish Royal Legend, i.e. 7th- and 8th- century Kentish legends, including that of the martyr princes Æthelberht and Æthelred. |
| 2. | 54v-55r | 13-5 | An early list of Northumbrian rulers, from Ida of Bernicia to Ceolwulf of Northumbria (d. 737), stylistically embellished and supplemented by two citations from Boethius. |
| 3. | 55r-58v | 15-30 | Material from Bede, including Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and especially Historia abbatum. |
| 4. | 58v-68v | 28/30-68 | Lost Northumbrian annals covering 732—802. |
| 5. | 68v-75r | 69-91 | Annals covering 849—887, derived mainly from Asser's Life of King Alfred. |
| 6. | 75r-76r | 91-5 | A series of annals written after 1042 covering 888—957. |
| 7. | 76r-76v | 95-8 | Extracts taken from William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum |
| 8. | 76v-123v | 98-258 | Material from the Chronicle of John of Worcester. supplemented by a now lost "Northern" recension of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle related to the extant D-recension, by the Libellus de Exordio, by the Historia Novorum of Eadmer, by Dudo of St Quentin and by William of Jumièges. |
| 9. | 123v-129v | 258-83 | A chronicle covering the period 1119—1129. |
Much of the compiled material up until 887, i.e. the first five sections, was itself probably derived from an earlier compilation by Byrhtferth of Ramsey, and probably some of it was compiled before the end of the 10th century. The material covering 1119—1129 does appear to be original, and this part may have been authored by Symeon.
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