chronicle
A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek#REDIRECT Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece
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associated with the , 
Novgorod
Veliky Novgorod ( rus, links=yes, Великий Новгород, p=vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj ˈnovɡərət), also known as just Novgorod (russian: Новгород, lit=newtown, links=yes), is the largest city and administrative center of Novgorod O ...
, Russia
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Eastern Europe is the eastern region of . There is no consistent definition of the precise area it covers, partly because th ...
. Its copies exist in two versions: Early Redaction (''starshy izvod''), which ends by 1418 and Later Redaction (''mladshy izvod''), with sporadic additions up to 1471, and up to 1508 in one of the copies.
Together with the Novgorod Fourth ChronicleThe Novgorod Fourth Chronicle (Новгородская четвёртая летопись) is a Russian chronicle of 15th century. It is traditionally called "Fourth" according to the order of the modern publication of Novgorod chronicles, rather t ...
, it is believed that it is derived from a common source. Russian philologist Aleksey Shakhmatov
Alexei Alexandrovich Shakhmatov (russian: Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Ша́хматов, – 16 August 1920) was a Russian Empire, Russian Imperial philology, philologist and historian credited with laying foundations for ...
tentatively called it the Novgorodsko-Sofiysky Svod (Novgorod-Sofia Corpus) and initially dated it by 1448, but later revised his opinion to 1430s. Some Russian philologists shared his opinion, while others attribute the common source to the 1418 Corpus of Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow
Image:Large sakkos of photius.jpg, The Large Sakkos of Photius is a luxurious tunic gifted to Photius around 1417
Photius of Kiev (''Фотий Киевский'' in Russian language, Russian) (died July 2 or February 7, 1431), Metropolitan of Kiev ...
.
See also
* Academic Chronicle * Sofia Second ChronicleReferences
East Slavic chronicles Novgorod Republic 15th-century history books {{East-Slavic-hist-stub