Abbreviations
| Acad. | the Academy (Akademicheskii) MS. of N1Y |
| ASC | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A collaborative edition, edited by David N. Dumville and Simon D. Keynes, vols 1â. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1983â: 3: MS A: A semi-diplomatic edition with introduction and indices, edited by Janet M. Bately. 1986; 5: MS. C: A semi-diplomatic edition with introduction and indices, edited by Katherine OâBrien OâKeeffe. 2001; 7: MS. E: A semi-diplomatic edition with introduction and indices, edited by Susan Irvine. 2004; 8: MS F: A semi-diplomatic edition with intr. and indices, edited by Peter S. Baker. 2000. |
| BAN | Biblioteka Akademii nauk (the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg) |
| BL | the British Library (London) |
| Com. | the Commission (Komissionnyi) MS. of N1Y |
| DRSM | Drevniaia Rusâ v srednevekovom mire: Entsiklopediia, edited by Elena A. Melânikova and Vladimir Ia. Petrukhin. Moscow: Ladomir, 2014. |
| GIM | Gosudarstvennyi Istoricheskii muzei (the State Historical Museum, Moscow) |
| GVNP | Valk, Sigizmund N., ed. Gramoty Velikogo Novgoroda i Pskova. Moscow â Leningrad: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1949. |
| HE | Venerable Bedeâs Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum) |
| Hyp. | the Hypatian Chronicle (Ipatâevskaia letopisâ), and its Hypatian (Ipatâevskii) MS. |
| Khlebn. | the Khlebnikovskii MS of Hyp. |
| Laur. | the Laurentian Chronicle (Lavrentâevskaia letopisâ) |
| MA | the Moscow Academic Chronicle (Moskovsko-Akademicheskaia letopisâ) |
| MGH | Monumenta Germaniae historica |
| MGH SS | Monumenta Germaniae historica. Series scriptores. |
| N1 | the First Novgorodian Chronicle (Novgorodskaia pervaia letopisâ) |
| N1Y | the Younger Version of the First Novgorodian Chronicle (Novgorodskaia pervaia letopisâ mladshego izvoda) |
| N4 | the Fourth Novgorodian Chronicle (Novgorodskaia chetvertaia letopisâ) |
| NGB | Novgrodskie gramoty na bereste: [8]: Ianin [Yanin], Valentin L., and Andrei A. Zalizniak. Novgorodskie gramoty na bereste (Iz raskopok 1977â1983 gg.). Kommentarii i slovoukazatelâ k berestianym gramotam (iz raskopok 1951â1983 gg.). Moscow: Nauka, 1986. [10]: Ianin [Yanin], Valentin L., and Andrei A. Zalizniak. Novgorodskie gramoty na bereste (iz raskopok 1990â1996 gg.). Paleografiia berestianykh gramot i ikh vnestratigraficheskoe datirovanie. Moscow: Russkie slovari, 2000. 11: Ianin [Yanin], Valentin L., Andrei A. Zalizniak, and Aleksei A. Gippius. Novgorodskie gramoty na bereste (Iz raskopok 1997â2000 gg.), vol. 11. Moscow: Russkie slovari, 2004. 12: Ianin [Yanin], Valentin L., Andrei A. Zalizniak, and Aleksei A. Gippius. Novgorodskie gramoty na bereste (Iz raskopok 2001â2014 gg.), vol. 12. Moscow: Iazyki slavianskoi kulâtury, 2015. |
| NK | the Novgorodian Karamzin Chronicle (Novgorodskaia Karamzinskaia letopisâ) |
| NK1 | the âfirst selectionâ of NK |
| NK2 | the âsecond selectionâ of NK |
| NS-group | the Novgorodian-Sophian group of chronicles (NK, S1, N4) |
| PP | Pamyiatâ i pokhvala kniaziu Vladimiru (Memory and encomium to Prince Vladimir) ascribed to Jacob the Monk |
| PSRL | Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei 1: Lavrentâevskaia letopisâ, edited by Evfimii F. Karskii, parts 1â3. Leningrad: Arkheograficheskaia komissiia, 1926â28 (reprinted in 1 vol.: Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kultury, 1997); 2: Ipatâevskaia letopisâ, edited by Aleksei A. Shakhmatov. Saint-Petersburg: Tip. M.A. Aleksandrova, 1908 (reprinted: Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kultury, 1998); 3: Novgorodskaia pervaia letopisâ starshego i mladshego izvodov. Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kultury, 2000 (reprint with supplements of a separate edition: Nasonov, Arsenii N., ed. Novgorodskaia pervaia letopisâ starshego i mladshego izvoda. Moscow â Leningrad: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1950); 4, part 1: Novgorodskaia chetvertaia letopisâ, edited by Aleksei A. Shakhmatov, issues 1â3. Petrograd â Leningrad, 1915â29 (reprinted: Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kultury, 2000); 5 [1st ed.]: Pskovskie i Sofiiskie letopisi. Saint-Petersburg: Tip E. Pratsa, 1851. 5, parts 1â2: Pskovskie letopisi. Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kultury, 2000, 2003 (reprint of edition: Nasonov, Arsenii N., ed. Pskovskie letopisi, parts 1â2. Moscow â Leningrad: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1941â1955); 6, part 1: Sofiiskaia pervaia letopisâ starshego izvoda, edited by Sergei N. Kisterev and Liudmila A. Timoshina. Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kultury, 2000. 6, part 2: Sofiiskaia vtoraia letopisâ, edited by Sergei N. Kisterev and Liudmila A. Timoshina. Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kultury, 2000. 15: Letopisnyi sbornik, imenuemyi Tverskoiu letopisâiu, edited by A.F. Bychkov. Saint-Petersburg: Tip. L. Demisa, 1863 (reprinted: Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kultury, 2000, in one volume with the next item); 15, part 1: Rogozhskii letopisets, edited by Nikolai P. Likhachev. Petrograd, 1922 (reprinted: Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kultury, 2000, in one volume with the previous item); 18: Simeonovskaia letopisâ, edited by Aleksandr E. Presniakov. Saint-Petersburg: Tip. M.A. Aleksandrova, 1913 (reprinted: Moscow: Znak, 2007); 20, 1st half: Lâvovskaia letopisâ, part 1, edited by S.A. Adrianov. Saint-Petersburg: Tip. M.A. Aleksandrova, 1910, 23: Ermolinskaia letopisâ, edited by F.I. Pokrovskii. Saint-Petersburg: Tip. M.A. Aleksandrova, 1910 (reprinted: Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kultury, 2004); 26: Vologodsko-Permskaia letopisâ, edited by Mikhail N. Tikhomirov. Moscow â Leningrad: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1959; 27: Nikanorovskaia letopisâ. Sokrashchennye letopisnye svody kontsa XV veka, edited by Arsenii N. Nasonov. Moscow â Leningrad: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1962 (reprinted: Moscow: Iazyki slavianskikh kulâtur, 2007, in one volume with the previous item); 38: Radzivilovskaia letopisâ, edited Boris A. Rybakov et al. Leningrad: Nauka, 1989; 41: Letopisets Pereiaslavlia Suzdalâskogo (Letopisets russkikh tsarei), edited by Viktor I. Buganov et al. Moscow: Arkheograficheskii tsentr, 1996; 42: Novgorodskaia Karamzinskaia letopisâ, edited by Iakov S. Lurâe et al. Saint-Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2002. |
| PVL | Povestâ vremennykh let (the Primary Chronicle) |
| Radz. | the Radzivill Chronicle (Radzivillovskaia letopisâ) |
| RGADA | Rossiiskii gorsudarstvennyi arkhiv drevnikh aktov (the Russian State Archive for Ancient Acts, Moscow) |
| RNB | Rossiiskaia natsionalânaia biblioteka (the Russian National Library, Saint-Petersburg) |
| RGB | Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka (the Russian State Library, Moscow) |
| Rog. | the Rogozhskii Chronicle (Rogozhskii letopisets) |
| S1 | the First Sophian Chronicle (Sofiiskaia pervaia letopisâ) |
| SPbII RAN | Sankt-Peterburgskii institut istorii Rossiiskoi Academii nauk (the Saint-Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences) |
| Syn. | the Synodal MS. of the First Novgorodian Chroncile, or the Older Version of First Novgorodian Chroncile (Sinodalânyi spisok Novgorodskoi pervoi letopisi, Novgorodskaia pervaia letopisâ starshego izvoda) |
| Tv. | the Tver Compilation (Tverskoi sbornik) |