Volyn Short Chronicle
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The Volyn Short Chronicle (Ukrainian: Воли́нський коро́ткий літо́пис, romanized: Volynsjkyj korotkyj litopys) is the conventional name of a Lithuanian chronicle in Ruthenian that is part of the Supraśl Manuscript of the early 16th century, found in the Supraśl Orthodox Monastery (Supraśl, now Białystok County in Poland). It is currently kept in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (РГАДА/RGADA) in Moscow (ф. 181, оп. 1, № 21, 26). Previously, it was also known as the Short Kyiv Chronicle or Short Kyivan Chronicle.
Name
When Mikhail Andreevich Obolensky first published the text of the chronicle in 1836, he called it the "Abridged" or "Short Kievan (Kyivan) Chronicle". But because the parts of the text that provide unique, original materials are entirely devoted to Volyn, subsequent scholars have renamed it Volyn Short Chronicle instead.
Contents
The Volyn Short Chronicle has 74 folios (leaves, sheets). Mikałaj Ułaščyk (1975, 1980) divided the chronicle into three parts:
The first part, from л. 1 to л.
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