The
Hypatian Codex (also known as
Hypatian Chronicle,
Ipatiev Chronicle, ) is a compendium of three
chronicleGenerally a chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the chronicler...
s: the
Primary ChronicleThe Primary Chronicle , or Russian Primary Chronicle, is a history of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110, originally compiled in Kiev about 1113.- Three editions :The original compilation was long considered to be the...
, Kiev Chronicle, and Galician-Volhynian Chronicle. It is the most important source of historical data for southern Rus'.
The codex is the second oldest surviving manuscript of the Primary Chronicle, after the
Laurentian CodexLaurentian Codex is a collection of chronicles that includes the oldest extant version of the Primary Chronicle and its continuations, mostly relating the events in the Northern Russia ....
. The Hypatian manuscript dates back to ca 1425, but it incorporates much precious information from the lost 12th-century Kievan and 13th-century Galician chronicles.
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The
Hypatian Codex (also known as
Hypatian Chronicle,
Ipatiev Chronicle, ) is a compendium of three
chronicleGenerally a chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the chronicler...
s: the
Primary ChronicleThe Primary Chronicle , or Russian Primary Chronicle, is a history of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110, originally compiled in Kiev about 1113.- Three editions :The original compilation was long considered to be the...
, Kiev Chronicle, and Galician-Volhynian Chronicle. It is the most important source of historical data for southern Rus'.
The codex is the second oldest surviving manuscript of the Primary Chronicle, after the
Laurentian CodexLaurentian Codex is a collection of chronicles that includes the oldest extant version of the Primary Chronicle and its continuations, mostly relating the events in the Northern Russia ....
. The Hypatian manuscript dates back to ca 1425, but it incorporates much precious information from the lost 12th-century Kievan and 13th-century Galician chronicles. The codex was possibly compiled at the end of the 13th century.
The Hypatian Codex was re-discovered again in the 18th century at the
Hypatian MonasteryThe Hypatian Monastery is a male monastery, situated on the bank of the Kostroma River just opposite the city of Kostroma. It was founded around 1330 by a Tatar convert, Prince Chet, whose male-line descendants include Solomonia Saburova and Boris Godunov.In 1435, Vasily II concluded a peace with...
of
KostromaKostroma is an historic city in central Russia, the administrative centre of Kostroma Oblast. A part of the Golden ring of the Russian towns, it is located at the confluence of the Volga and Kostroma Rivers...
by the Russian historian Nikolay Karamzin. Since 1810, the codex has been preserved in the
Russian National LibraryThe National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, known as the State Public Saltykov-Shchedrin Library from 1932 to 1992 , is the oldest public library in Russia...
, St Petersburg. The language of this work is
Old Church SlavonicOld Church Slavonic, also known as Old Bulgarian, or Old Macedonian, was the first literary Slavic language, based on the old Slavic dialect of the Thessalonica region, employed by the 9th century Byzantine Greek missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius, who used it for translation of the Bible and...
with many
SlavismsThe East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of Slavic languages, currently spoken in Eastern Europe. It is the group with the largest numbers of speakers, far out-numbering the Western and Southern Slavic groups...
.
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