The ''Sofia First Chronicle'' () is a
Rus' chronicle
The Rus' chronicles, Russian chronicles or Rus' letopis () was the primary Rus' historical literature. Chronicles were composed from the 11th to the 18th centuries, generally written in Old East Slavic (and, later, Ruthenian language, Ruthenian ...
from the 15th century associated with the
Cathedral of St. Sophia, Novgorod. It is scholarly abbreviated as S1 or SPL. Its copies exist in two versions: Early Redaction (''starshy izvod''), which ends in 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 Chronicle'', it is believed that it is derived from a common source. Russian philologist
Aleksey Shakhmatov
Aleksey Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov (, – 16 August 1920) was a Russian philology, philologist and historian credited with laying the foundations for the science of Textual criticism, textology. Shakhmatov held the title of Doctor of Russ ...
tentatively called it the
Novgorodsko-Sofiysky Svod (Novgorod-Sofia Corpus) and initially dated it to 1448, but later revised his opinion to the 1430s. Some Russian philologists shared his opinion, while others attribute the common source to the 1418 Corpus of
Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow.
See also
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Academic Chronicle'' (''Moscow Academic Manuscript'')
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Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles'' (PSRL)
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Sofia Second Chronicle''
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Radziwiłł Chronicle'' (''Königsberg Manuscript'')
References
Bibliography
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Old East Slavic chronicles
Novgorod Republic
15th-century history books
Primary Chronicle textual witnesses
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