The annals were not written with crown funding, but rather with funding from other sources. For example, the Anonymous Bourgeois Chronicles are named as such because they comprise a collection of chronicles written on commission and funded by Prague burghers. While we know the “technical brief” given to Hájek of Libočany, in the case of the ABC we can only speculate on the goals (beyond simply recording events) set for the chroniclers by their patrons.

The Old Czech Chronicles have reached us in manuscripts from the second half of the 15th to the 17th centuries and contain obvious postscripts and hindsight, very similar to the instructions Hájek received. Therefore, they do not fully meet the criteria of synchronous sources, but they are extremely valuable as anthropological evidence.

The chronicles of Hájek of Libočany, despite their anthropological value, will not be considered in this context.

Of course, chronicles from neighboring states and from the periphery of the Kingdom of Bohemia do fall within the scope of synchronous sources.

Memoirs of writers, clergymen, and others will also be mentioned. However, their inherent subjectivity necessitates extreme caution in their interpretation.”