The Old Rus’ Kievan and Galician-Volhynian Chronicles: The Ostroz’kyj (Xlebnikov) and Cetvertyns’kyj (Pogodin) Codices (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature)

In ca. 1307, three Old Rus' chronicles -- the Pověst' vremennykh lět (Tale of Bygone Years, covering the years 872-1117) , Kievan Chronicle (for the years 1119-1199) , and the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle (for the years 1205-1289) -- were joined together. These three component parts have come down to us only in the form of a compilation (datable to ca. 1425) which scholars have named the Hypatian Chronicle.. Of the five extant witnesses of the Hypatian Chronicle, the so-called Xlebnikov codex occupies a special place. It was most probably copied in Volhynia during the second half of the sixteenth century for Prince Kostjantyn Ostroz'kyj.. The so-called Pogodin codex, closely related to the Xlebnikov, was copied in 1621 in Žyvotiv for Prince Stefan Svjatopolk-Cetvertyns'kyj.. Both the Ostroz'kyj and Cetvertyns'kyj codices appear here for the first time in facsimile. Until now they have been known only from footnotes to editions of the Hypatian Chronicle.